What is the price for harbouring a terrorist organisation in one’s country?

How many will tell you? Lebanon might give us some insight. When the leader of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, claimed that Israel had declared war, he said that he would not allow Israel to return its own citizens to their own homes in northern Israel until a Gaza ceasefire. We have to ask, Who is ruling Lebanon?

Today, the BBC reports what the Lebanese Government and health minister had to say about Israeli attacks upon Hezbollah, but what has the Lebanese Government to say about a terrorist organization within its own borders, drawing fire towards itself with inevitable collateral damage to Lebanese citizens?

What is the Lebanese Government doing about harbouring a terrorist organisation?  Why can Israel not expect the Lebanon Government to deal with Hezbollah’s influence and behaviour, if not its presence? What is the price of harbouring terrorists? It seems to include suffering Israel doing what the Lebanese Government will not do. It seems to include UK nationals citizens being advised by their Prime Minister to leave Lebanon immediately. Who rules Lebanon? Is this Government?

Hamas is using human shields in Gaza, contrary to international law, but is Hezbollah’s use of Lebanese citizens as its shields not the same issue scaled up? Why is Hezbollah allowed to harbour its military arsenal in Lebanese society, hiding long-range missiles on rocket launchers in the attics of civilian houses? Who rules Lebanon?

In Gaza, the terrorist organisation Hamas rules. One can hardly call it government. It does not govern its people, but possibly terrorizes them into submission since its opposition and overthrow of Fatah in 2007. Now that Hamas is being curtailed in Gaza by Israel, it is interesting to see a fall in “support” for Hamas among Gazans. Some think that Gazans have been coerced into supporting Hamas and that Gaza needs liberation from Hamas’ oppression and propagandizing of its own people. The population of Gaza need to be saved from Hamas, and the population of Lebanon need to be saved from Hezbollah.

Six years ago, I asked why there was no public inquiry in Gaza about the breech of the Israel border.  The answer, of course, is that nobody expected it.  Why not? Because Hamas may rule but it does not govern in the normal sense of the term.

It is one thing to ignore Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields and then to attack Israel for the inevitable collateral damage that arises from this terrorist policy, but I have not heard commentary on the failure of the Lebanon Government to behave as if it governs the country and is in charge, in the face of Hezbollah’s rhetoric and behaviour in sending rockets continuously into Israel.

The facts suggest that it is not in charge.  It is a dysfunctional Government and it is time to expose and decry its harbouring of this terrorist organisation. Who rules Lebanon?

Update:

27 Sep 2024: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly after a walk-out by delegates, followed by an Israeli attack on Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut.

28 Sep 2024: Hezbollah has confirmed that the Israeli attack has killed its leader Hassan Nasrallah, which US President Joe Biden has not condemned but said his death is a “measure of justice for his many victims”. After promising to avenge the killing of the Hezbollah leader, Iran’s supreme leader the Ayatollah has gone into hiding, “a secure location” in Iran for increased safety. The terrorist chain of command is feeling vulnerable as vengeance works its why up the chain.

28 Sep 2024: at last someone has mentioned “harbouring terrorists” [at 23:05 hrs]. After 9/11 the war against terrorists included those who harbour terrorists.

1 Oct 2024: Iran has shown its hand and its immorality, firing about 180 missiles indiscriminately at Israel, showing how little it regards civilian lives. This shows how Iran would act when it has nuclear capacity as its aim is to eradicate Israel from the face of the map. As Benjamin Netanyahu has given up on the fruitless decades-long appeasement of Hamas and Hezbollah, it is likely that he will go for the head of the octopus after cutting off Iran’s tentacles in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. Will he take out its nuclear facilities? Attacking its oil facilities may be sufficient to cripple its economy and overthrow Iran’s islamic regime with its apocalyptic agenda.

1 Oct 2024: they are not human shields but human sacrifices; the psychology explained.

2 Oct 2024: an Iranian activist on GB News 15:28 hrs says that Israel is fighting for the rest of the world and understands the dangerous ideology of the Iranian regime with respect to Israel and the western world.

3 Oct 2024: the Lebanese ambassador told the BBC that Hezbollah had targeted military targets, at least showing the need to make such a claim, but 1. this has been contradicted by the evacuation of Israelis from northern Israel and 2. why is a Government ambassador speaking on behalf of terrorist Hezbollah and even making excuses for it? Lebanon has a dysfunctional Government.

5 Oct 2024: the anniversary of the October 7th attack by Hamas of Gaza, slaughtering unarmed civilians in Israel massacrhas been pre-empted by demonstrations in UK cities from London to Inverness with Hezbollah flags flown [20:00 hrs]. The focus should be upon freeing Gaza of Hamas, Lebanon of Hezbollah [19:44 hrs] and Iran of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Josh Howie’s opinion [20:06 hrs] on both the Middle East and the threat to the West.

7 Oct 2024: my memorial on the first anniversary of October 7th explains what people need to know. I also attended a public demonstration in my home town displaying photographs of the hostages held by Hamas.

7 Oct 2024: the UK Israeli ambassador speaking on GB News at 19:09 hrs, showing those in the UK with sympathy for Hezbollah, a proscribed terrorist organization:

9 Oct 2024: Benjamin Netanyahu has called upon the Lebanese people to throw out Hezbollah, but BBC news said that many in Lebanon hate Israel more than Hezbollah and it will fall on deaf ears. Hezbollah is a political party with representation in parliament, a social movement with a continuing ideology even though it is militarily diminished.

14 Oct 2024: the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the UN to withdraw its south Lebanon peacekeepers from the combat zone because Hezbollah is using them as human shields. I ask: what have UN peacekeepers done to promote or maintain the peace? If they have done nothing, they should get out of the way.