Some Things You Didn't Know About Hezbollah and Syria (Hint: Syria Has Lebanese Prisoners, Hezbollah Openly Committed To Destroying Israel)
From the description at the bottom of this article, Magdi Khalil is a political analyst, researcher, author and Executive Editor of the Egyptian weekly Watani International. He is also a syndicated columnist for several Arabic language newspapers, and a frequent contributor to Middle East broadcast news TV. In an article about Lebanon II, he asks Nasrallah several questions. Three caught our eye:
10. Why hasn’t Hezbollah put pressure over Syria to release the hundreds of Lebanese captives which have been held for long years in Syrian prisons and who are in much worse condition then the Lebanese held in Israeli prisons?
11. Can Hezbollah compel Syria to delineate its frontiers with Lebanon under UN supervision, and what does Hezbollah exactly think about the frontiers issue?
The situation is thus as follows: Even granting Hezbollah's pretexts about the Shebaa Farms being Lebanese lands (which we don't believe and are granting only for the sake of argument)... if even granting those pretexts, it is still the case that Syria is in occupation of more Lebanese land than Israel and it is holding Lebanese prisoners in far worse conditions than Israel is. As recently as this weekend, Hezbollah had been explicit on these conditions:
Hizbullah has said that it would not surrender its weapons as long as Israel holds Lebanese prisoners, occupies the Shaba Farms and IAF planes fly in Lebanese airspace.
That being the case, if Hezbollah was interested in the Lebanese cause, they would be attacking Syria at least as often as they're attacking Israel. They're not because their real goal is to wipe out the Jews in Israel:
8. Mr. Hassan Nasrallah has publicly announced, more than once, that they are set to liberate Jerusalem once the Shab’aa farms is free, so will it be possible for Hezbollah to let go of the "liberating Jerusalem" theme, and restrict its speeches and its focus strictly on Lebanon?
On July 26th, after Hezbollah had committed their act of war by crossing the Blue Line and attacking Israel, the United States pressured Israel to put the Farms back on the negotiating table, ostensibly because this would sufficiently appease Hezbollah. Maybe they didn't hear the speeches that Khalil is referring to.
10. Why hasn’t Hezbollah put pressure over Syria to release the hundreds of Lebanese captives which have been held for long years in Syrian prisons and who are in much worse condition then the Lebanese held in Israeli prisons?
11. Can Hezbollah compel Syria to delineate its frontiers with Lebanon under UN supervision, and what does Hezbollah exactly think about the frontiers issue?
The situation is thus as follows: Even granting Hezbollah's pretexts about the Shebaa Farms being Lebanese lands (which we don't believe and are granting only for the sake of argument)... if even granting those pretexts, it is still the case that Syria is in occupation of more Lebanese land than Israel and it is holding Lebanese prisoners in far worse conditions than Israel is. As recently as this weekend, Hezbollah had been explicit on these conditions:
Hizbullah has said that it would not surrender its weapons as long as Israel holds Lebanese prisoners, occupies the Shaba Farms and IAF planes fly in Lebanese airspace.
That being the case, if Hezbollah was interested in the Lebanese cause, they would be attacking Syria at least as often as they're attacking Israel. They're not because their real goal is to wipe out the Jews in Israel:
8. Mr. Hassan Nasrallah has publicly announced, more than once, that they are set to liberate Jerusalem once the Shab’aa farms is free, so will it be possible for Hezbollah to let go of the "liberating Jerusalem" theme, and restrict its speeches and its focus strictly on Lebanon?
On July 26th, after Hezbollah had committed their act of war by crossing the Blue Line and attacking Israel, the United States pressured Israel to put the Farms back on the negotiating table, ostensibly because this would sufficiently appease Hezbollah. Maybe they didn't hear the speeches that Khalil is referring to.
