Delusion is defined by the science of mental and psychological disorders as a false belief that is firmly maintained in spite of incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence. A

The ordinary Lebanese citizen who is genuinely concerned with the sovereignty of his country could not care less about the victory or defeat of Israel.

delusion is a detachment from tangible and lived reality, from the facts and the environment, and from the capabilities available to the afflicted individual. It is a thought, or thoughts, that can be neither addressed nor corrected through logic or persuasion. The most frequent types of delusions are the Delusion of Grandeur, the Persecutory Delusion, the Nihilistic Delusion, and Guilt.


It is only on the basis of the scientific definitions of the underpinnings of this "delusion," and specifically, the Delusion de Grandeur, that one can comprehend and interpret Hizbullah's claim of victory against Israel in the July 2006 war; a war it initiated and waged on orders from the rulers of the two Axis of Evil countries, Syria and Iran, to serve their terrorist, fundamentalist, criminal and expansionist plans.


Hizbullah made a unilateral decision to wage war against Israel without consulting the legitimate Lebanese state and by bypassing its institutions, including the cabinet, the parliament, the army and the judiciary. It acted with a self-prescribed "Divine" superiority and with the logic of the state-within-the-state empire it built in Lebanon, against the will of the Lebanese people and the constitution and laws of the country. This is the State of the Faqih (Islamic jurisprudence), which is fully and exclusively affiliated with the regimes in Tehran and Damascus, and which is subservient to the rulers of those two countries.
Naim Kassem, Hizbullah's second-in-command, openly admitted in a recent interview (Al-Kawthar TV, April 16, 2007) that every action that Hizbullah has undertaken since its founding in 1980, immediately after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, is vetted exclusively according to the jurisprudence of Iran and not by any other consideration, such as Lebanon's national interests.


Hizbullah is simply an Iranian army in Lebanon. Period. In terms of its ideology and doctrine, its web of financial networks and activities, its authority and armaments, there is nothing Lebanese about Hizbullah except for the plastic ID cards of its mujahideen.


The illusion of victory against Israel that Hizbullah celebrated on the first anniversary of the July 2006 war - and with it, Syria and Iran and their mouthpieces and peons in Lebanon - is an exercise in delusional absurdity and childishness, which would be funny if not for the deaths and destruction visited on Lebanon. The Hizbullah celebration perpetuates the tradition of all previous Arab "victories" against Israel since 1948, where actual Arab-Islamic defeats were always turned - through lies, deceit and, yes, delusion - into victories. Celebrating Hizbullah's "Divine" victory is nothing short of scandalous and a shameful mockery of the intelligence of the Lebanese people. It stands as an absolute contradiction to reason, logic and facts.


The ordinary Lebanese citizen who is genuinely concerned with the sovereignty of his country could not care less about the victory or defeat of Israel. Nor about the delusions of Hizbullah's leaders regarding victory, conquest and slaughter, a la Don Quixote. What matters to the Lebanese are the losses incurred as a result of a war that killed 1,200 people, injured thousands more, and caused large-scale destruction of infrastructure estimated at over 20 billion US dollars. Lebanon has also lost 250,000 Lebanese to emigration. The country was set 20 years back.


When we assess the results of the July war by every measure of reason and fact, it is doubtlessly evident that Lebanon and the Lebanese alone paid the price of the Syrian-Iranian mad adventure executed by Hizbullah. They paid that price with the blood of their children, their properties, their economy and their future.


As for Hizbullah - with its delusion of "Divine victory," and all the slogans of liberation, resistance, slaughter of the enemy and conquest, and despite all the catastrophes and calamities it has caused - it persists in its Iranian-Syrian mission to undermine the institutions, the constitution, the liberties, the democracy and the

Hizbullah's actions do not deserve celebration; they deserve the prosecution of its leaders, the seizure of its funds and assets, and the disbanding of its militias.

very existence of the homeland of the cedars. Hizbullah's actions do not deserve celebration; they deserve the prosecution of its leaders, the seizure of its funds and assets, and the disbanding of its militias. Today, not tomorrow.


It is no longer acceptable to accommodate this illegal organization, to give false praises to its disturbed leaders, to repeat and reinforce their delusions, and to exaggerate their superiority in their delusional victory of July 2006, as well as their earlier charade of "liberation" in 2000. Hizbullah only liberated the south from the Lebanese people, replaced the country's institutions with its own instruments of dependency, banned the Lebanese army and security forces from setting foot in the south, and then erected its own state-within-a-state.


It is a crime against truth, conscience and logic for the Lebanese political leadership to continue kowtowing to Hizbullah and propagating its lies, and to practice taqiyah (dissimulation to hide one's true opinion) and dhimmi submission, through an idiotic marketing of Hizbullah's delusional victories of July 2006 and June 2000.


Facts must be seen for what they really are. We can no longer hide the truth, for he who witnesses to the truth, the truth shall set him free.