Lara Yazbek – Call of the Nation
The Bahraini Ministry of Interior announced on Monday evening, “the arrest of three people on charges of forming a cell linked to Hezbollah, after they coordinated with elements outside the country and sought to communicate in a way that threatens the state’s sovereignty and security.” Last week, on March 26 specifically, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior announced the thwarting of a terrorist plot and the arrest of a network that planned to carry out assassinations targeting state symbols and leaders and harming the country’s supreme interests, noting “the accused’s connection to the banned terrorist organization Hezbollah.” On March 16, Kuwait previously revealed that it had seized “a terrorist group belonging to the banned terrorist organization Hezbollah, which includes 14 citizens and two Lebanese nationals, aiming to destabilize the country’s security and recruit people.” Also, on the 18th of the same month, it announced that the State Security Service was able to thwart a plan for a terrorist operation that was targeting vital installations in the country, “after intensive security monitoring and investigations, where ten citizens of a terrorist group belonging to the Hezbollah organization were arrested.” “God.”
“The Party” is a student of the Wali al-Faqih School
The party’s hostile and treacherous behavior towards the Gulf states is not surprising to those who know it. According to what Gulf diplomatic sources told “Nidaa Al Watan”, he is a “pupil” of the “Guardian Jurist” school in Iran, who, at the first difficulty he faced, took off the mask of friendliness from his face, laughing at the Arabs, and directed his missiles at them. He returned the favor they did with Tehran, over the past months and years, when the diplomats of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE worked to stop the 12-day war and to convince Washington to adopt diplomacy to resolve controversial issues with Iran, not fire… He responded to it, by bombing vital civilian and economic facilities in the Gulf, when the American-Israeli war against Iran began.
For months, Hezbollah had been announcing that it was extending a hand to Saudi Arabia for dialogue, and was talking about the necessity of building the best relations with the Arab and Gulf countries. And here we are today discovering his piety in its ugliest manifestations, the sources continued, as he was saying something “beautiful” in public, while he was cooking a “poisonous dish” for us in secret, in the form of terrorist plans to target us and destabilize us.
Did you ask the “party”?
Every time the discovery of “Hezbollah” cells is announced, the Lebanese state is quick to denounce and condemn, and the Lebanese Foreign Ministry recalls the decision to ban “Hezbollah” military activity issued on March 2. But the sources, who say that the Gulf capitals appreciate the efforts of the Lebanese state to get out from under the control of “Hezbollah,” and appreciate the bold decisions taken by the Lebanese government sovereignly, stress that these decisions must be put into practice, which has not been achieved so far, as the party’s weapons are still with it, and its military and security work continues, in Lebanon and the region, without any actual accountability.
She asks: “Have senior officials in the “Party” been summoned and held accountable for their practices in the Gulf, or is the state content with or believing the denial statements it issues? Has there been a clear and public condemnation, from some official body, of the “Party” in this regard? Some Lebanese parties, in their statements of condemnation of what the “Party” is doing, do not even call it by name, and prefer the phrase “Lebanese groups.”
No distinction between the two wings
It is true that the Gulf distinguishes between the Lebanese state and the “party,” the sources say, and knows that it is rebellious against it, but this abnormal reality cannot last. It is necessary for the government to purify itself and remove Hezbollah from its ranks. It has become difficult to distinguish between a political wing and a military wing, especially since the first wing has begun to provide a “legitimate” cover for the second’s rebellion, nothing more and nothing less… With this measure, the Lebanese state is protecting its longstanding relations with the Arabs and the Gulf. As for the “party’s” remaining in its ranks, after all its practices, it will negatively affect, the longer it takes, the government’s image in the eyes of its neighbors, and will gradually destroy what the state is trying hard to build with its surroundings.
