We were not at all surprised when Dr. Samir Geagea refrained from labeling Hezbollah as a terrorist organization during his interview with the Saudi journalist Tariq Al-Hamid on September 5th of this month, conducted via the “Al-Arabiya FM” website. In the interview, Al-Hamid asked Geagea about his reason for silencing his supporters who were loudly chanting “Hezbollah is a terrorist” during the speech he delivered at the martyrs’ mass celebration last week in his Maarab Headquarter. This pro Hezbollah stance is not new or unexpected from Dr. Geagea; due to the fact that it is consistent with his long-standing position, which he frequently expresses, as do all the representatives and leaders of his party, most notably MP Melhem Riachi. They consider Hezbollah to be a Lebanese entity, represented in parliament, and reflecting its Shiite base. They even recognize Hezbollah’s role in the 2000 liberation of the south and regard its killed members as martyrs of Lebanon, on par with the martyrs of the Lebanese Forces Party.
Furthermore, Geagea’s MPs and officials often, and foolishly, boast about Israel being an enemy, whether prompted or not. We question whether such non-Lebanese positions are driven by Dhimmitude, cleverness, complicity, esotericism, or genuine convictions?. The answer is simple: they are bundles of hypocrisy, self-deception, and deceit of others, because Hezbollah openly and proudly declares its Persian identity, its Iranian project, and its absolute allegiance in doctrine, thought, belief, funding, and armament to the mullahs of Iran. The sad and ironic aspect of these submissive approaches is that they are gratuitous; Hezbollah does not pay any attention to them, and instead, accuses, demonizes, and despises their proponents and all its opponents. Mr. Nasrallah has repeatedly and publicly stated that those who do not support his so-called “resistance” and wars are not human beings.
How can we expect the world to help us liberate our country from the occupation of the terrorist and Iranian Hezbollah when we are afraid to call it what it openly declares itself to be?
Here, we must draw Dr. Geagea’s attention, as well as others who are immersed in slanderous, esoteric, and surrenders positions, to the fact that many Arab and Western countries classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and have placed it on their terrorism lists. Do we expect these countries to help us while we continue to flatter Hezbollah and drop the terrorist label from it?
We ask, is he not a “terrorist” who assassinated Pascal Sleiman and Elias al-Hasrouni, among hundreds of others before and after them, invaded Ain al-Rummaneh, Beirut, and the Mountain, declared war on Israel, suspended the constitution, stole property, dismantled the state, and prostituted its institutions? Hezbollah is a professional in manufacturing and exporting all things forbidden and prohibited, carries out terrorist operations in many countries, fights in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, blew up the port of Beirut, stole the money of the Lebanese—and the list goes on and on.
