Believe it or not, on May 25 each year since 2000 Lebanon has been celebrating a so-called "Liberation and Resistance Day". Sadly, this celebration commemorates a bogus event and a phony heroism that did not actually take place.
The withdrawal was a fatal Israeli decision that has inspired Hamas terrorism.
On May 22, 2000 the Israeli army unilaterally and for solely Israeli domestic reasons withdrew from its "security zone" in South Lebanon in accordance with UN Resolution 425. The withdrawal was a fatal Israeli decision that has inspired Hamas terrorism and the ongoing havoc of the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip.
The unilateral Israeli withdrawal created a security vacuum in South Lebanon. The Syrians, who were occupying Lebanon at that time and fully controlling its government, did not allow the Lebanese army to deploy in the south and fill this vacuum after the Israeli withdrawal. Instead, Syria helped the Hizbullah militia to militarily control the whole southern region and even patrol the Israeli-Lebanese border.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army's withdrawal was executed without any military battles, or even minor skirmishes, with Hizbullah or with the Lebanese and Syrian armies. The Syrian regime, in a bid to justify both its ongoing occupation of Lebanon and the avoidance of disarming Hizbullah, came up with the "Shabaa Farms occupation big lie" and declared Hizbullah a liberator, alleging it had forced Israel to withdrawal from South Lebanon. Syria, in the same camouflaging and devious context, dictated to both the Lebanese parliament and government to declare May 25 a National Day under the tag of "Liberation and Resistance".
In reality, Hizbullah did not force the Israeli withdrawal and did not play any role in the liberation of the southern Lebanese region. Both Hizbullah and Syria deliberately hindered and delayed the Israeli withdrawal for more than 14 years.
Every time the Israelis called on the Lebanese government to engage in a joint, serious effort under the United Nations umbrella, in order to ensure a safe and mutually organized withdrawal of its army from South Lebanon, the Lebanese government refused to cooperate, did not agree to deploy its army in the south, and accused the Israelis of plotting to divide and split the Syrian-Lebanese joint negotiating track. This approach to the Israeli calls was an official Syrian decision dictated to all the Lebanese puppet governments during the era of Syrian occupation.
Since then, Hizbullah has been hijacking Lebanon and its people, refusing to disarm and advocating for the annihilation of Israel. This Iranian mullahs' terrorist army, stationed in Lebanon, is vacuously hiding behind labels of resistance, liberation and religion. Hizbullah has recklessly jeopardized the Lebanese people's lives, safety, security and livelihood. It has been growing bolder and bolder in the last four years, mercilessly taking the Lebanese state and its people hostage through terrorism, force and organized crime.
Sadly, Hizbullah is systematically devouring Lebanon day after day, and piece by piece, while at the same time marginalizing all its governmental institutions. It hopes to topple the Lebanese state and erect in its place a Shiite Muslim regime, a replica of the Iranian Shiite mullahs' fundamentalist republic. Meanwhile, the free world and the Arab countries are totally silent, indifferent, and idly watching from far away the horrible crime unfolding, taking no practical or tangible measures to put an end to this anti-Lebanese Syrian-Iranian scheme executed with their spearhead, the Hizbullah armed militia.
Who is to be blamed for Hizbullah's current odd and bizarre status? Definitely the Syrians, who have occupied Lebanon for more than 28 years (1976-2005). During their bloody and criminal occupation, Syria helped the Iranian Hizbullah militia build a state-within-a-state and fully control the Lebanese Shiite community.
But also the majority of the Lebanese politicians, leaders, officials and clergymen share the responsibility, because they were subservient and acted in dire dhimmitude, in a selfish and cowardly manner. If these so-called Lebanese leaders had been courageous and patriotic - and had not appeased Hizbullah and turned a blind eye to all its vicious human rights atrocities, intimidation tactics, crimes and expansionist schemes - then this Iranian Shiite fundamentalist militia would not have been able to erect its own mini-state in the southern suburb of Beirut, and its numerous mini-cantons in the Bekaa Valley and the south; nor would Hizbullah have been able to build its mighty military power, with 70 thousand militiamen, or stockpile more than 50 thousand missiles; nor would it have been able to force the Iranian Wilayat al-Faqih religious doctrine on the Lebanese Shiite community, and confiscate its decision-making processes and freedoms.
Since Hizbullah's emergence in 1982, the Lebanese politicians have been serving their own selfish interests and not the interests of the Lebanese people and nation. They went along with Hizbullah's schemes, deluding themselves that its militia and weaponry would remain in South Lebanon and would not turn against them. This failure to serve the people of Lebanon allowed Hizbullah to convince many Lebanese, and most of the Arab-Muslim countries, to blindly swallow its big lie of theatrical, fake resistance and liberation.
Hizbullah would not have been able refuse to disarm in 1991, like all the other Lebanese militias in accordance to the "Taef Accord", which called for the disarmament of all militias. Hizbullah would not have become a state-
Who is to be blamed for Hizbullah's current odd and bizarre status?
inside-the-Lebanese-state, and an Iranian-Syrian tool of worldwide terrorism. That tool turned against Lebanon after its war with Israel in 2006 and after the UN troops were deployed on the Lebanese-Israeli borders in accordance with the UN Resolution 1701. On May 7, 2008, Hizbullah invaded Sunni western Beirut, killing and injuring in cold blood hundreds of its civilian citizens, and attempting to take Mount Lebanon by force.
A few days ago, Hizbullah's General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah called that day (May 7) a great and glorious victory for his resistance, and threatened the Lebanese that a replicate of that day will take place if they do not succumb and obey his orders.
Hizbullah is a deadly dragon Lebanese politicians have been allowing to feed on sacrifices from the southern Lebanese citizens, especially those who were living in the IDF "security zone" and who fled to Israel after the Israeli withdrawal. This dragon, which enjoyed devouring its southern sacrifices, has now turned on all the Lebanese; and if they do not stand up for their rights and dignity, the dragon will keep on devouring them all, one after the other.
We call on the Lebanese government, the Lebanese parliament, and on all the free and patriotic Lebanese politicians and leaders to cancel the May 25th National Day, because it is not national at all, and to stop calling Hizbullah "the resistance" and put an end to its mini-state, cantons and weaponry. And we call for securing a dignified, honorable and safe return for all the Lebanese citizens who have been taking refuge in Israel since May 2000.