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Jewish World Review March 9, 2005/ 28 Adar I 5765
Richard Z. Chesnoff
Shot at liberty begins with end of Hezbollah
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Hezbollah has a "strictly political wing," they argue, providing schools, food and medical care for tens of thousands of Lebanese poor. "Let's be fair to Hezbollah," they say. Such arguments remain popular among Americans who bend so far backward on Mideast peace efforts that they get their heads stuck among the dunes.
Thousands of Lebanese are in the streets, some with American flags, chanting "Syria out!" The majority of Lebanese want true independence. The world, in large part, is calling for Syria's withdrawal, and even Syria itself is mumbling hogwash about retreating, but not yet across its border. So why would Hezbollah stand against this tide?
There is only one reason: survival. There is no differentiation between Hezbollah's military, political and social wings. They are one in the same, and all branches are ultimately led by the same people. In Hezbollah's case, this includes Sayyed Hassan Nasralla, the so-called spiritual and political leader of Hezbollah, and his second-in-command, Imad Fayez Mughniyah one of the world's most wanted terrorists and the chief of Hezbollah's military wing. As Hezbollah expert Yoram Schweitzer puts it, "It's ridiculous to think Mughniyah makes any major decision without Nasralla."
In the long term, Hezbollah wants to transform Lebanon into an Islamic republic similar to that of Iran, to annihilate Israel and to propagate a violent worldwide anti-American "Islamic Revolution." These hateful messages are beamed round the world every day on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV station.
Hezbollah is a state within a state in Lebanon. With Syrian backing and millions of dollars in Iranian arms and supply support, it maintains a semiautonomous military-operational power base in southern Lebanon, Beirut and Lebanon's Bekaa region. It is from there that Hezbollah attacks. Without Syrian support and with a truly independent Lebanon, it is there that it could be destroyed.
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