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Originally Posted by WiseCookie  FPMers have obviously come a long way since 2005. One has to simply look at the archives to see how opinions have dramatically changed. Accusations of being zionist imperialist agents are flying left and right which pretty funny.
Anyway, the problem is that Hizballah is growing stronger by the minute, because no one is setting its limits. It is acting as a state within a state. The government did not remove its right to resist, but it's placing restrictions on its way of operations. The question in itself is flawed because the government also did not mention anything with the weapons, but Hizballah like the Syrians ties everything to its weapons.
The phone lines are apparently part of its weapons, which is an absolutely ridiculous argument, because the phone lines are simply not weapons. If you people actually want a true government to be built, you should know that the restrictions are important to keep it within the law. Hizballah did not ask the government if it could place these lines, which goes beyond its role as a resistance. Furthermore, the threats launched by Hizballah are a simple representation of how they hold the Lebanese state. They want a Lebanese state that is subservient to them and not the other way around. |
In any other country, those phone lines would have been illegal to say the least.
However, looking at the phone lines out of the context of the Lebanese Israeli conflict, falls under short sightedness and naivety to say the least.
When you look back at what HA was capable to achieve in July 2006, you find that those phone lines play an integral role in giving HA communications capabilities without being intercepted by the Israelis. HA dealt with the issue once during the July 2006 war, It was when Hassan Nasrallah made one phone call using a regular line, only to have the Israelis bomb the location shortly after.
The govt in its latest action, is telling HA, that in case another war happens with Israel, we are on Israel's side, because we want to prevent you from having a secure communications network, so that the next time Israel wants to find Nasrallah, they will be capable of doing so, and doing that they would have helped us get rid of 1 last hurdle in our quest to rule the country uncontested.
Regards
PS: you want to get rid of the illegal communications network, in addition to getting rid of HA's autonomous security, and the weapons, you have to tackle the reasons behind them, which basically comes down to solving the Lebanese Israeli conflict.