SCENES FROM LEBANON AND BEYOND ........

Lebanese from all walks of life , from all regions of the country, from all religions, something hard to muster in a country like Lebanon, they all have risen collectively and instantaneously, in impressive numbers, not seen for a long time . An unprecedented sense of civility and self imposed correctness hardly observed anywhere in the area or the world .

All with practically the same core of demands, of economical and political reforms, an immediate cessation and an end to the chronic era of official and private corruption and theft of public funds and infrastructure plus public services allocations . All parties and public figures , warlords and politicians are implicated with no exception what so ever, that makes it very hard as there's practically no one side capable of addressing or accusing or pointing a finger to other guilty of corruption or theft, be it a party or individual, everyone at higher echelon is somehow implicated in a form or other.

Some believe the army, which is benefiting lately of some sympathy among most Lebanese, could take over temporarily, do the job and reestablish some real democratic order into the scene, the major problem is always, as has been for decades, the extreme vulnerability of the army, and the danger of it disintegrating on religious and sectarianism pressures from the different Lebanese political factions. That would be a greater drag and jeopardy for Lebanon and the Lebanese people.

As practically all Lebanese political personalities and parties are implicated in aggravating the population to beyond reasonable control, whereby now it looks like a free falling snowball or avalanche, my comments will hit on one aspect of it all , Hezbollah, the fastest ascending Shiite party, originally from the south of Lebanon, and now, totally inspired, funded and directed from Tehran.

Hizbollah attributed to itself through the few past decades, many important and great roles on the local Lebanese scene, starting with liberating Lebanon from the Israeli aggression of the eighties, and again in the first decade of the 21st century, and finally maintaining a considerable destructive power and precision sets of missiles to balance any new aggression by Israel, it gained the role of moderator and less corrupt among most local players, forcing itself into a powerful partnership with some or other political factions, and influencing the fragile local balance between political lordships . Yes Hizbollah is in many instances many of these aspects or all of them , according to its benefits and to the benefits of Iranian and or Syrian wishes and political tactics and interests.

But, I personally, as well as many in Lebanon and the region, still look at the Party of God suspiciously, with little sympathy or love to its agenda, tactics, affiliations and final goals, it is after all a deeply theocratic and religious institution, that was founded on these basis and continues to adhere strictly to a certain view of Islamic religious dogma and fatwas, and the higher theocratic leadership's opinions of Iran. It had always a clergyman at the top echelon, it's an essential part of its dogma and existence, it will not change, ever.

The party, its leadership and cadres will always sanctify and blindly obey Iranian wishes and interests. Will always be inspired by 1400 years of narrow Islamic views, practices and archaic religious wild imagination. No discussions no arguments about any of this. Behaving worse than anyone else in executing and complimenting the dirty work asked of them .

When the Syrian internal conflict started some 10 years ago, the Syrian regime and its various militias found themselves cornered, even defeated by local groups of rural people, mostly Sunni Muslems, who very quickly got infiltrated by all kinds of Islamic jihadist from around the world, heavily funded by many sides including America, Israel and some of their allies. Hizbollah with absolutely no special love or affinity to the Assad regime, his family, oligarchy or his secret services, had to oblige by sending tens of thousands of well armed and trained fighters to fight along side the Syrian and eventually Iranian sides, against whoever was against the Syrian regime, Israel could have taken advantage and attacked, but they refrained and restrained !!! basically all to satisfy Iran's future aspirations, interests, and the party's own Iranian arms delivery routes.

The party of Allah, fought in Syria a very dirty war against many poor and powerless rural areas and their populations, all based on blind sectarian and religious ethnic-cleansing tactics and strategies. Killing, brutalizing and displacing entire populations and villages and areas of the Syrian rural and city core fabric. They all of a sudden became the trusted heroes of the small fraction of the Syrian oligarchy, the Assad clan and its pseudo supposedly saved religious and economical minorities.

From an Arab versus Israeli perspective, Hizbollah is maintaining the same policies of the Assad's, with an undeclared semi truce and a mutual non aggression policy throughout the long and often disputed common borders, Israel is slowly and surely acquiring the Arab territories, like the Golan heights, and the Chab'aa farms in Lebanon, plus its own occupied Palestinian territories, with the others bragging about their deterrent forces. Iran of course is the biggest and major winner till now in the game,smartly exploiting it all, with its crescent from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, what a powerful strategic combination !!! all the way to the Mediterranean warm waters. No wonder Israel's Netanyahu and America's Trump are dog like panicky about it all .

No educated or learned person has any doubts,that Hizbollah is the perfect Iranian tool, tactically for Lebanon, eventually to keeping Syria in check and under leach, and subduing this entire portion of the Middle-East, a very efficient tool indeed for Iranian theocracy and Farsi strategic and hegemonic long goals. In fact , and I know many who could be offended by my opinions, I'd say what's the difference between Israeli and Iranian future hegemonic and expansionary visions. This is the reason, I and many, can not and will never tolerate Hizbollah's take-over, even partially of Lebanon, Syria or any part of the very diversified and rich Middle-Eastern fantastic and unique cobweb .
          My usual many thanks to everyone around our small glob......