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On a Repentant Environment
Published in AL HAYAT on 25 - 07 - 2010

There is a scenario in Lebanon which states that the forces of the March 14 Alliance are fabricating the formal indictment which will be issued by the general prosecutor of the Special Tribunal to try those suspected in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and other assassinations connected to it, and that these forces are directing accusations according to political circumstances. Certainly these forces would prefer for the tribunal's accusations to go against the interest of their political opponents. Yet the tribunal, with its judges, employees and international sponsors, has not yet turned into an international branch obedient to the March 14 Alliance, writing its regular reports to the United Nations and preparing its formal indictment for the assassination based on the statements of the March 14 Alliance's General Secretariat.
Making such a link with accusations according to political circumstances is not meant to preemptively defend against the possibility of accusations being directed at undisciplined Hezbollah members, as the party's Secretary-General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah has announced in advance his absolute rejection of such a possibility. Indeed, Hezbollah does not hold any undisciplined members, and all members carry out the leadership's orders. Thus the matter would become, as Nasrallah said, as if the leadership of the largest Lebanese Shiite party had ordered the assassination of the most prominent Sunni leader in Lebanon. Let us just imagine after that what would take place in terms of sectarian tension and incitement, as well as political and security turmoil, and what would follow it in terms of the apocalyptic climate that would take shape out of such an accusation penned down by March 14 forces. These forces would thus be responsible for driving the country into the furnace of yet another conflict, one for which the May 7 operation and the military control of Beirut and some of its surrounding areas would have only been a preliminary rehearsal. It would be evident in such a case for these forces to be responsible, first and last, for the new situation that would have arisen from their excessive engagement in the international conspiracy against Hezbollah, as from their failing to take warning of the lessons of its resilience.
This is why these forces must review their accounts, if they consider that current political circumstances allow them to divert the accusations of assassination from Syria and the leaders of the former Lebanese-Syrian security-political apparatus to Hezbollah. They are invited to critically reconsider their stances, ideology and politics, in order to emerge from their partnership with the conspiracy currently represented by the Special Tribunal, and to protect themselves from Hezbollah's response to the accusations, including that which might reach the March 14 Alliance's popular base in all regions of Lebanon. And there lies the crux of the matter.
Such reconsideration required of March 14 has been specified as following Jumblatt's model. The basis for this model is not just relinquishing past opposition, but in fact joining into, in words and in deeds, the party's slogans and the demands of its leadership. And if Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has clarified that joining in such a way was dictated by apprehensions of protecting his community, which suffered a great deal on May 7, everyone must realize that their protection can only be ensured by joining in the same manner.
Jumblatt has accepted to move from the position of main player in the March 14 Alliance and in Lebanon to that of recipient, for the protection of his community and his popular base. The others too must accept this new position. Nevertheless, there are past responsibilities, the burden of which someone must bear and be held accountable for. Intended here is the former government cabinet and former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, the absent yet ever-present figure throughout Nasrallah's latest press conference.
Thus, the reconsideration required of the March 14 Alliance means for its constituents to join Hezbollah's politics, yet some of those forces are involved in the conspiracy to such an extent that there is no hope for them to evade being held accountable. And just as these forces perpetrated the crime of the Special Tribunal and its formal indictment, they must, as they currently head the government, go to the “game of nations” to put an end to their “game” in Lebanon through the Special Tribunal.
Developments in Lebanon, ever since the assassination of Hariri in 2005, would thus have represented a straight line by a single player, the March 14 Alliance, without excluding the possibility that its forces were behind the assassinations directly or indirectly in order to provide pretexts for the great conspiracy, i.e. the Special Tribunal.
The conspiracy is indeed great, and many countries are participating in it, led by Israel. It is a conspiracy that exceeds Lebanon and reaches the region, especially Iran and Syria. In order to fend it off, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has called on Muslims to “terrorize the conspirators” and “terrorize” their allies in the region.


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