Every Southern Lebanese, soldier or civilian, deserves the MEDAL OF HONOR, even in absentia.
Claudia Hillar Hajjar/May 23/2025
Not only is it legitimate, it is a moral duty. When the Lebanese state collapsed and failed to protect its own people, they rose alone, fighting like warriors, like true patriots. They didn’t just defend the South, but all of Lebanon, standing against the savage invasions of the Palestinian factions, the Syrian Assad regimes, and the Iranian Hezbollah Terrorist organization.
Three Terrorist BUTCHERS.
And today, history repeats itself. The so-called Army Commander, Rodolph Haykal, has failed again. Instead of honoring the true defenders of Lebanon, he dared to congratulate the terrorist group Hezbollah, falsely crediting them with “liberating” the South, a blatant LIE when Israel had already withdrawn, voluntarily and officially.
May 25th did not mark liberation, it marked BETRAYAL.
It was the day Southern heroes were abandoned, dishonored, and exiled to Israel, forgotten by the very state they fought to protect.
A real Commander of the Armed Forces would have opened his speech with an apology, on behalf of every traitorous government that abandoned those heroes. Then he would have decorated each one in absentia, with the MEDAL OF HONOR they earned with their blood and sacrifice, with Étienne Sakr, aka Abu Arz, at the head of the awarding. Because though he wasn’t an officer in the stationed Army, he was a civilian and a national leader who offered his movement and his life in service to the Army and to Lebanon.
May 25th is not a victory.
It is a NATIONAL DISGRACE.
Claudia Hillar Hajjar, founder of the Committee of Support of the Lebanese Southerners in Enforced Exile in Israel.
