Fomenting Civil War in Lebanon

The War on Lebanon: Israeli military casualties inside Lebanon, 2006

How the United States and Israel are stirring sectarian tensions.

The Israeli defeat in its last war against Hezbollah and the civilians of Lebanon has put a dent in their public image and has caused indignation on the part of many inside the Zionist state and their supporters in the United States. Israel’s defeat is never acceptable to the biblical war mongers of Zion. Another assault on Lebanon, in one form or another, is in the works, according to many experts and civilians who are sharing their pessimism on the blogsphere.

The recent flurry of activity and the sectarian violence in Lebanon have laid a blanket of pessimism over the population. War criminals along the lines of Ja’ja’ (one of the leaders of the Sabra and Chatila massacres) are the darlings of Washington and Tel Aviv. There is evidence of smuggling of crates of unknown contents (AKA weapons) into the headquarters and homes of government supporters, courtesy of the U.S. government. Those crates were supposedly allotted to the Lebanese Army.

The hope in Tel Aviv and Washington is to provoke a confrontation between Hezbollah, their supporters in the Opposition and a few in the Christian and Sunni militias who support the current government (which is seen by most Lebanese as the facilitator of colonial U.S. and Israeli policies in the Middle East). Hezbollah has never, in its history of resistance, engaged in an act of confrontation with other Lebanese groups. It has tried and continues to try to avoid such confrontation.

Israel failed to militarily crush the Lebanese Resistance during its last brutal war on the people of Lebanon. Their aim now is to create Iraq-like civil war conditions to maintain control over yet another area in the region (another U.S. and Israel-friendly regime).

Not much talk is coming out of Washington about democracy in Lebanon any more. The American experiment in Lebanon has failed, the same way it has failed in Afghanistan and Iraq and all over the world since the end of WWII (with its support of tyrannical regimes).

The people of Lebanon are pessimistic because maybe they know that they are caught in the middle of the powers of the feudal and racist system that makes up the remnants of the old colonially produced Lebanon and the barbaric and vicious intent of the U.S. and Israel to destroy the opposition at any cost.

Meanwhile, despite talk of pull-back from Iraq inside the American political system, the different wars will continue for at least one decade in the form of black ops, outright war, or internal civil strife and assassinations.

Some are asking: if there is another war in Lebanon, will Hezbollah hand Israel its 6th defeat?