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December 13, 2007
The Murder of Lebanon
The December 12th assassination of Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, 54, his bodyguard and five innocent bystanders, was a professional job. The blast was caused by a 77-pound bomb that was hidden beneath a car parked on the street. This has all the earmarks of a Syrian hit, most certainly in coordination with Hizbullah and the Ahmad Jibril Palestinian Group.
This murder has the same MO as the 2005 assassination of ex-Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri, most certainly carried out by Syrian intelligence in association with Pasdaran.
This operation demanded the coordination of several lethal players and structures: safe-houses; financing—lots of cash was needed to make this operation function at all levels; a high degree of security had to be maintained; human intel was gathered and disseminated through various networks; there was betrayal—most certainly at high levels inside the Lebanese army; and expert bomb-makers were at work.
No rag-tag terrorist group could have pulled off this assassination so smoothly. This was a professional operation run by state-trained pros, men who have by now most certainly fled Lebanon for the safety of Gaza, Damascus and Tehran. Lower echelon operatives will melt into the Bekaa valley and the teeming northern Palestinian towns that are despised by the general Lebanese population.
No murder charges will ever be filed against anyone. And of course, in the Arab world, the Mossad will be blamed, which is insane for this was the last thing Israel needed. But insane and quite stupid conspiracy theories are the honey of the Arab world. The reality of their dysfunctional societies are simply too shameful to confront. It's far easier to blame the Jews, for, well, everything.
General Hajj was expected to succeed General Michel Suleiman, the army chief of staff, who was to become Lebanon's next President.
The murder serves two purposes:
1. Revenge: General al-Hajj was a Christian, born in the southern Lebanese town of Rmeish. His village has a history of resistance against Muslim terrorists since the late 60's. Numerous young men from his town are officers in the Lebanese army and have, over the years, fought Syrian occupation and Hizbullah. Most recently General al-Hajj led the Lebanese army against the Fatah Islam Terror group in the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp in norther Lebanon this past summer. General al-Hajj was hostile to Hizbullah, and had plans to chase them out of southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley.
2. Message: From Syria to the Lebanese Army. To avoid confronting terror groups, especially Hizbullah. Syria will not rest until Lebanon is once again under Syria's domination, through her proxy, Hizbullah. The Lebanese army, traditionally neutral in politics, has now been warned. If they seek confrontation another ruinous civil war will most certainly erupt.
What can we expect? Resolutions from the U.N. Syria and Iran look most favorably on these multi-paragraph resolutions; in their eyes, the more time the bureaucrats at the U.N spend pushing paper, the better. Time is always on the side of totalitarians. Democracies are notoriously impatient, a grievous weakness in geo-politics especially when confronting the threat of radical Islam, a patient and lethal beast.
The butchers in Damascus understand that even as they murder the opposition, western liberals invite them to peace conferences, and Israeli leftists yearn to hand back the Golan from which the Syrians would control the strategic high ground, an invaluable asset, not to mention the only bargaining chip the Israelis hold. For the Syrians it's a win-win-win situation. They kill, and kill and kill and they suffer not a single negative geo-political consequence.
INTERPOLATION:
In truth, the Syrians don't want the Golan back. They desperately need the status quo. It strengthens their shaky regime, props up their belligerent posture as the true confrontation state against the Zionist entity in the Arab world. A status they thoroughly enjoy and publicly celebrate.
END INTERPOLATION:
Israel is now being surrounded and strangled in a terrorist vice: Gaza, Lebanon; now the Israeli government talks of dividing Jerusalem and turning Judea and Samaria over to the Arabs, which means a deadly encirclement by short-range weapons—snipers and mortars.
This is a recipe for national suicide. Jerusalem and a host of other Israeli cities will turn into S'derots, under constant terror attack; and if Israel responds properly, she will be accused of a “disproportionate response”—which is the only sane response when civilian populations support and celebrate terrorist infrastructures.
Lebanon is falling under a Syrian/Hizbullah/Iran axis—merciless terrorist entities—and the world yawns.
Here at Seraphic Secret we like to report good news. In New York, a bunch of thugs attacked three Jews who dared say: “Happy Chanukah” on the subway. To their aid came a young Muslim student from Bangladesh. Hat Tip, Seraphic Friend, David Paulin
Update: Muslim Hero is Honored H/T Seraphic Chaver, Kishke
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at December 13, 2007 09:22 AM
Comments
Seraphic Secret is private property, that's right, it's an extension of our home, and as such, Karen and I have instituted two Seraphic Rules and we ask commentors to act respectfully.
1. No profanity.2. No Israel bashing. We debate, we discuss, we are respectful. You know what Israel bashing is. The world is full of it. Seraphic Secret is one of the few places in the world that will not tolerate this form of anti-Semitism. That's it. Break either of these rules and you will be banned.
I hate to draw big conclusions, but the subway incident is indeed indicative of how much better most Muslim immigrants in the U.S. integrate into our society so much better than they do in Europe. Not to say there aren't some serious problems here, but they pale in comparison. I hate to say it, but something like probably wouldn't happen in France. Once again, the "healing waters" of America prove to be the best weapons against hatred. If I hear one more European drone on about how racist we supposedly are, I will scream.
Posted by: Jake at December 14, 2007 07:00 AM