Siniora: Anti-Hezbollah and an Israeli Agent too
Dr. Joseph Hitti
July 09, 2008
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has rejected Italy´s offer to mediate direct peace negotiations between Lebanon and Israel. Siniora informed Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who made the mediation offer during a visit to Jerusalem, that he would not be entering any talks with Israel.
Unlike his fellow Sunni Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia, Mauritania, Lebanon's Prime Minister Siniora is anti-peace with Israel. No one knows why because he never says why he is against Lebanon settling all its problems with Israel by way of negotiations and peace treaties, like all civilized nations do. He even said that Lebanon should wait until all Arab countries sign peace with Israel before it does.
The only explanation is that Siniora, in spite of his posturing as anti-Hezbollah and anti-Syrian, is really allied strategically with Hezbollah in terms of a long term plan of hostility and war between Lebanon and Israel. Hezbollah wants Lebanon to remain the only Arab war front against Israel, even though this has cost Lebanon tremendous pain and suffering over the past 4 decades, and Hezbollah is insisting on a "defense strategy" to be adopted by the Lebanese State against Israel, including continuing the build up of missiles and rockets stockpiling in the south in anticipation of further wars and hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel such as happened in 2006. The new government of Prime Minister Siniora, which is in the process of being formed, will inevitably adopt Hezbollah's "resistance platform" that is guaranteed to maintain Lebanon in a state of war with Israel and the Lebanese people the scapegoats for all the failures of the Arab world over the past six decades.
If Siniora continues to reject peace negotiations with Israel, it also means he does not want a solution to the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. By insisting on maintaining Lebanon a violent place where everyone in the neighborhood settles their conflicts, Siniora is seeking to maintain the extant conditions that are inevitably leading to the permanent settlement of the 500,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, thus swelling the ranks of his own Sunni community in Lebanon. Observers see this as a strategy by Lebanon's Sunnis to counter the numerical demographic ascendancy of the Shiites.
For if Siniora genuinely desires peace in Lebanon he would negotiate with both Israel and Syria and settle all disputes (borders, prisoners, etc.) in a civilized manner that protects Lebanon in international venues. Instead, he says he does not want Hezbollah to drag Lebanon into war, yet he insists on not bringing Lebanon into peace either, which comes down to the same thing.
What is Siniora's plan for Lebanon's future? How does he think Lebanon can gain peace if it is constantly subjected to the status of a war front with Israel? Are Egypt and Jordan any less Arab because they signed peace treaties with Israel and have now known peace for 20 years or more? Are Jordanians and Egyptians and Palestinians better than the Lebanese people? Do they deserve peace more than the Lebanese? Why should the Lebanese continue to pay the price for all the Arabs who say they want to defeat Israel but never do anything except force Lebanon to do the job for them?
Siniora's major ally - the US - also seems to like this stance by Siniora because the Bush administration never pressures him into talking to the Israelis. They continue to voice their support for Siniora against Hezbollah, even as he declares he does not want peace with Israel. Something is fishy about all this, which leads many to believe that the Americans are in cahoots with Siniora to keep Lebanon ablaze, tense and violent and never knowing peace in order to one day settle the Palestinian-Israeli conflict at the expense of Lebanon, primarily by settling all the Palestinian refugees permanently in Lebanon, thus solving Israel's problem of having to deal with the Right of Return. A stable Lebanon which is at peace with itself and its neighbors would not be conducive to the major upheavals that are required (and which have continued since the early 1970s) to bring about the settlement of the refugee question on Lebanese soil.
In other words, Lebanon's Prime Minister Siniora is the Israeli agent par excellence because he is acting in Israel's long term interests and not those of Lebanon.
Unlike his fellow Sunni Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia, Mauritania, Lebanon's Prime Minister Siniora is anti-peace with Israel. No one knows why because he never says why he is against Lebanon settling all its problems with Israel by way of negotiations and peace treaties, like all civilized nations do. He even said that Lebanon should wait until all Arab countries sign peace with Israel before it does.
The only explanation is that Siniora, in spite of his posturing as anti-Hezbollah and anti-Syrian, is really allied strategically with Hezbollah in terms of a long term plan of hostility and war between Lebanon and Israel. Hezbollah wants Lebanon to remain the only Arab war front against Israel, even though this has cost Lebanon tremendous pain and suffering over the past 4 decades, and Hezbollah is insisting on a "defense strategy" to be adopted by the Lebanese State against Israel, including continuing the build up of missiles and rockets stockpiling in the south in anticipation of further wars and hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel such as happened in 2006. The new government of Prime Minister Siniora, which is in the process of being formed, will inevitably adopt Hezbollah's "resistance platform" that is guaranteed to maintain Lebanon in a state of war with Israel and the Lebanese people the scapegoats for all the failures of the Arab world over the past six decades.
If Siniora continues to reject peace negotiations with Israel, it also means he does not want a solution to the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. By insisting on maintaining Lebanon a violent place where everyone in the neighborhood settles their conflicts, Siniora is seeking to maintain the extant conditions that are inevitably leading to the permanent settlement of the 500,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, thus swelling the ranks of his own Sunni community in Lebanon. Observers see this as a strategy by Lebanon's Sunnis to counter the numerical demographic ascendancy of the Shiites.
For if Siniora genuinely desires peace in Lebanon he would negotiate with both Israel and Syria and settle all disputes (borders, prisoners, etc.) in a civilized manner that protects Lebanon in international venues. Instead, he says he does not want Hezbollah to drag Lebanon into war, yet he insists on not bringing Lebanon into peace either, which comes down to the same thing.
What is Siniora's plan for Lebanon's future? How does he think Lebanon can gain peace if it is constantly subjected to the status of a war front with Israel? Are Egypt and Jordan any less Arab because they signed peace treaties with Israel and have now known peace for 20 years or more? Are Jordanians and Egyptians and Palestinians better than the Lebanese people? Do they deserve peace more than the Lebanese? Why should the Lebanese continue to pay the price for all the Arabs who say they want to defeat Israel but never do anything except force Lebanon to do the job for them?
Siniora's major ally - the US - also seems to like this stance by Siniora because the Bush administration never pressures him into talking to the Israelis. They continue to voice their support for Siniora against Hezbollah, even as he declares he does not want peace with Israel. Something is fishy about all this, which leads many to believe that the Americans are in cahoots with Siniora to keep Lebanon ablaze, tense and violent and never knowing peace in order to one day settle the Palestinian-Israeli conflict at the expense of Lebanon, primarily by settling all the Palestinian refugees permanently in Lebanon, thus solving Israel's problem of having to deal with the Right of Return. A stable Lebanon which is at peace with itself and its neighbors would not be conducive to the major upheavals that are required (and which have continued since the early 1970s) to bring about the settlement of the refugee question on Lebanese soil.
In other words, Lebanon's Prime Minister Siniora is the Israeli agent par excellence because he is acting in Israel's long term interests and not those of Lebanon.
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