Lebanese agree on one out of three

The only point of agreement between Lebanese leaders has been the theoretical election of Sleiman as president. Qatar put forward compromise proposals calling for immediate presidential elections and the formation of a national-unity government while postponing discussion of a proposed new electoral law, but from Doha, the opposition refused to postpone discussion of a new electoral law.

إنه جبل كمال جنبلاط يا سيد المرتزقة...!

12 أيار, 2008

بقلم د.بهاء ابوكروم -قد تختلف الأوصاف والتشابيه بين مجرم وآخر أو بين مُدّعٍ وآخر إنما ما لايختلف عليه اثنان هو أن هالة السيد سقطت منذ نهار 8 آذار حين أخذ على عاتقه حماية نظام القتل السوري ومن ثم توالت في السقوط عندما أفلت عصاباته ومرتزقته في شوارع بيروت وعندما حاول دخول الجبل جبل كمال جنبلاط وسلطان الأطرش ووليد جنبلاط، ومع أن الحكمة هي من صفات رجال الدين عادةً فإنهاهذه المرة كانت ملكاً لوليد جنبلاط فقط وملكاً لأهل الجبل وكان الجهل مستحكماً في عقل السيد، سيد المرتزقة وسيد عصابات الغدر الذين هتكوا حرمات العزل واستقووا على المدنيين وعاثوا فساداً في الأرض بدل أن يحموا لبنان من الإسرائيلي تحولوا إلى إسرائيليين في الداخل وهم لا يقلون عنهم إجراماًوغدراً وخيانة.






لكن مع كل ذلك ومن دون مبالغة وبالأرقام أيضاً فإن ما تلقته ميليشيات حسن نصرالله في الجبل من خسائر لم يتلقاها يوماً في قتاله مع إسرائيل وأثبت أبناءالجبل في كل موقعة وفي كل قرية أنهم حقاً يستأهلون الاحترام والتبجيل وأنهم أبناء أوفياء لتراثهم ولعاداتهم وتقاليدهم العريقة وأنهم مقاتلون شجعان لا ترهبهم بطولات حزب الله ولا تخيفهم انتصاراته الوهمية حتى لواستعمل آلته الإعلامية بكل شائعاتها وأخبارها وتضليلها وحتى لو عمل باسمه وباسم حلفائه على خطف المواطنين على الطرقات وأخذهم من منازلهم فهذا كلهلم يخفِ حقيقة أن قتلاه ملئوا ساحات القتال في عيتات والشويفات وعين عنوب وديرقوبل وعرمون وتلة ال888 وعاليه وأنه عجز عن الدخول إلى المناطق التي قاتلته وأنه حين تجرأ على الدخول إلى جبال الشوف لم يعرف كيف يخرج منهابعد محاصرته مع آلياته من قبل الأهالي الذين كانوا ليبيدونهم لولا تدخل وليد جنبلاط وإصراره على إخراجهم بسلام.



نعم يا من ادعيتم أنكم مقاومة وكنتم بالأصل وبالوكالة مجرمون أو حماة المجرمين، لقد سقطت مقولاتكم وسقطت هالتكم وسقطت كل شرعيتكم وأظهرتم للملأ أنكم تتحملون مسؤولية كل الاغتيالات التي نالت من نواب لبنان ووزرائه وكتابه وصحافييه وأنتم تخافون المحكمة الدولية التي سوف تظهركم على حقيقتكم مجرمون ليس إلا، قتلة غدارين لا تستأهلون الاحترام حتى لو انتصرتم على العدو الإسرائيلي فكنتم إسرائيليين أكثر منهم لأن الناس ائتمنتكم على بيوتها وعلى حرماتها وكنتم كالوحوش الضالة تقصفوا بالصواريخ ما تعجزون عن الوصول إليه.



ومع أن المعركة لم تنته بعد فإن الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي وأهالي الجبل الأبطال لن يقبلوا بأن تدخل إليهم عصابات حزب الله ولن يرحبوا إلا بالجيش اللبناني فمن يراهن على استسلام أو خضوع أو انهزام فهذا قد يكون حلماً من أحلامهليس إلا، إنما أهل الجبل لم يعرفوا يوماً الهزيمة وقد مرت عليهم أياما ًأصعب من هذه بكثير وكانوا صامدين واثقين من خطاهم مستلهمين من عزيمة المعلم كمال جنبلاط ومن عنفوانه قدرة على التحدي وإيقاع الهزيمة بكل من تجرأ عليهم.



نعم فمن لم يقرأ تاريخ هذا الجبل حتى الآن عليه أن يدرك بأن كمال جنبلاط زرع فينا ما لا يستطيع الولي الفقيه زرعه فيهم وأن شجاعة وليد جنبلاط وصبره وهوانه تفعل فينا ما تعجز عنتريات حسن نصر الله فعله فيهم وأن الجبل كان منتصراً ويبقى وأن وليد جنبلاط أقوى منهم ومن جبروتهم والأيام تثبت ذلك.



إنه جبل كمال جنبلاط يا سيد المرتزقة...

Lebanon' "300"

While the West is busy living its daily life, a beast is busy killing the freedom of a small community on the East Mediterranean: Lebanon. Indeed, as of last week, the mighty Hezbollah, armed to the teeth with 30,000 rockets and missiles and aligning thousands of self described “Divine soldiers” has been marching across the capital, terrorizing its population, shutting down media, taking its politicians and the Prime Minister as hostages, and looting at will. The hordes of Lebanon’s “Khomeinist Janjaweeds” have conquered already half of the Middle East’s cultural capital, Beirut. As I have reported before, Hezbollah has occupied West Beirut and has since sent its storm troops in multiple directions to resume the blitz.

The burning of TV stations in Beirut
Unstoppable, including by the Lebanese Army which Commander Michel Sleiman has allowed the slaughter to occur the Pasdaran-founded militia is now hurdling towards the Druze Mountain and positioning its forces against the Sunni North and the Christian Mount Lebanon. Ironically, the geographical bases of Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon, are well guarded by the United Nations Interim Forces (UNIFIL). Per a UNSCR 1701 in 2006, more than 10,000 international troops are stationed across the southern parts of Lebanon, technically protecting the 200 Shia towns and villages from where the bulk of Hezbollah fighters came from. Hence, free from guarding their own areas, a dozen thousands well trained “Hezbollahis” have marched north to join another 5,000 already based in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
This huge force, by Lebanon’s standards, was joined by an undetermined number of real Iranian Guards, shipped from Tehran to man sophisticated weapons offered by the Khamanei regime as a gift to topple the democratically elected Government of Fuad Seniora. In addition, from the four corners of the country, Jihadist and ultra radical organizations have joined the fray including: The Nazi-like SSNP, the Amal Movement, the Wi’amWahhab pro-Syrian militia, and many others. And to top it, Damascus was able to neutralize the Lebanese Army which has been equipped recently by the United States. Its Commander, a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic was “convinced” by the Assad regime to open the passages to Beirut and all other regions for the hordes to thrust into their enemies’ backyards. Reminding us of the tales of Greek Antiquity, this Xerxes –Khomeinist- Army burst into the capital, whipping out the thin internal security forces and reigning with brutality.

Hezbollah’s “Immortal Guards” against the “300″?



After securing the Muslim side of the city, the “Immortal Guards” –since most of the Hezbollahis believe in martyrdom as a path to eternal after-life, encircled the mostly Druze Mountain from all directions. Closing in from the coast, the south and the Bekaa, thousands of fighters and their heavy artillery were ordered into battle this week end. The massive “Persian” Army is now attempting to take these passes into the Bekaa and from there into the North and the Christian Mountain. In a sense these may become Lebanon’s Thermopylae: A vast Hezbollah Iranian-backed Army unleashing its power against few Lebanese Spartans, to dislodge them and open the paths for the rest of the country. Indeed, it looks like the few hundred Druze fighters in Aley and the Shuf –who have decided to fight on their own, may become Lebanon’s “300”. The vision is chilling. Despite the calls by their leader Walid Jumblat, now hostage to the Pasdaran in Beirut, to desist from resisting, the mountainous peasants decided to fight and resist the onslaught. The balance of power is terribly uneven. The forces of Hassan Nasrallah, hyper armed by “Xerxes” Ahmedinijad, line up thousands of soldiers, Special Forces, missiles and endless containers of ammunition. They have hardened their battle experience through years of fighting against a powerful Israeli Army, Air Force and Navy. Nasrallah is convinced that his Army of Suicide-bombers has defeated the region’s nuclear super power in 2006. Hence, a few “hundreds” of Druses won’t even stand for a day. Logically, he is correct. The Lebanese Army was tamed by Hezbollah, the Sunnis of Beirut collapsed in few hours, the Christians are intimidated, the U.S and Europe fears Hezbollah’s Terror and the Arab regimes are terrified by his myth. Who on Earth will resist the Khomeinist Xerxes? Well so far, Lebanon’s 300 have.









The Grand Hezbollah PlanThe first waves of attacks launched by the Iranian backed forces aimed at seizing the first portion of the strategic Damascus Highway (the I-70 of Lebanon) linking Beirut to the Syrian border via the Mountain. The offensive began from Kayfoun towards Baysur. Instead of seizing terrain, Hezbollah lost Kayfoun with heavy casualties (about 23 killed) and the Druze fighters of the Socialist Party planted their flag on the enemy bunker before they pulled back to their positions. The Iranian commanders were stunned by these mountain “Rangers.” But the Druze had only AK 47 with one or two clips of ammunitions; rarely an RPG. While the whole of Lebanon was watching with fear, awaiting their turn, the “300” were repelling the waves of “Immortal Hezbollah” who in fact got very mortal in 24 hours. Another battle raged in Aley and the “Persians” lost again: 9 casualties or so: Among the bodies, three Iranians. Near Aley the strategic hill 888 was assaulted repetitively but the defenders repelled the “Guards.” Later on, the Druze transferred the hill to the Lebanese Army. Nasrallah’s troops then stormed Deir Qubal but were pushed back towards the surrounding hills. Hezbollah tried to seize Ein Unub but again the attack failed.

Druze clerics Hezbollah Guard

Then Hezbollah ordered its forces to advance on the coastal axis towards Shueifat. There, the Druze pulled back inside the town allowing the “Hezbos” to take the control of the beaches and the adjacent roads. But when the Iranian backed militias moved toward the neighborhoods, their advance was stopped. Frustrated the “Xerxes” War Room decided the grand assault by early Monday: More than 2,000 Khomeinist-trained commandos took the back roads to the Baruk Mountain coming from the southern Bekaa. Their target are the Maaser heights and from there to the district capital of the Shuf, Mukhtara. From south Lebanon, the hordes of Hezbollah are marching across Jezzine, Tumate heights into the southern frontiers of the Druze lands. According to reports, 5000 Hezbollah/Iranian/Syrian infantry, backed by rockets and artillery are to close in from the south. The Druze, youth and elderly, have mobilized all they could, but are isolated with little ammunition. Their adversaries are numerous, well equipped, fanaticized and have their supply lines opened to Syria and via Damascus, to Iran. The tableau looks like a real collection of small Thermopylae where the “300” of Lebanon will be fighting a Goliath.




Pasdaran and Hezbollah’s forces
But irony is that the United States and other Democracies, whose forces are present in the area and ships cruising the waters along the Eastern Mediterranean, and who have committed to fight terror around the globe may be watching these “300” falling in this epic fight. The greater irony is that these peasants of Mount Lebanon have withstood the mighty machine of Hezbollah for three days and maybe for a few more, while the standing myth internationally was that no one on Earth can defeat this Terror force. Well, for few days the myth of invincibility of Hezbollah was shattered. Eventually if the powers -who have already spent 500 billion dollars on the War on terror- would fail the Lebanese “300” in their mountains, the legend will be owned by the those little intrepid and courageous peasants. But if Washington and Paris would quickly assume their strategic responsibilities –which they initiated by voting UNSCR 1559 to liberate Lebanon- then perhaps Khomeinist-Terror won’t plant its banners on the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Dr Walid Phares is the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the author of The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad.

Testimonies from the Druze Mountain

“In their Own Words” – Accounts of young brave men who were defending their homes and families in Aley and the Shouf Mountains. May 12, 2008
Translated verbatim from Arabic to English

1 Melhim in Alley

My name is Melhim; I was with some of my friends driving around the southern eastern part of Alley. We noticed at a distance that Hezbollah has occupied several hills. We called using our cell phones and informed the people at the “markaz”. We also informed Wajdi. We stayed put. But within minutes, men, young and old, started arriving from all directions. Immediately the exchange of fire started. We saw at a distance at least 10 buses downloading Hezbollah fighters. I would put their number at a few hundred. The fighting became very intense. Our boys were advancing without any hesitation. I saw myself being driven at such a fast pace, I could not feel my legs. They looked like an army with their fancy equipment but we kept on pushing. Bullets were flying all over me. But for some weird reason, I had no fear of the bullets. They looked to me like heavy rain and I felt as if there is an invisible umbrella protecting me from the rain. I thought I was almost alone in my run towards the fire, but I looked around me and found at least three dozen boys at pace with me. I remembered looking at Wafic running on my right side with a smile on his face. “Melhim it is a good day to die, let us keep pressing he said”. We were firing our guns relentlessly and they were firing back but we were not dying. I could smell the fear of Hezbollah boys. At that point I realized that I have already spent 6 magazines and needed a break to reload. In the process I saw Druze fighters coming out of the woods in large numbers. What a beautiful sight, they looked like ghosts coming out from the trees firing with so much bravery. It started to turn into a massacre. Hezbollah fighters, despite their vast numbers, were falling like leaves. They were not able to pick their dead and wounded fast enough. Suddenly they started attacking us with Missiles and 155 cannons, from further points, to slow us down, and to allow their soldiers to retreat. The missiles mostly came from the town of Al-Qmatieh, A Hezbollah stronghold. That night Aley was hit by more than 500 missiles. They were afraid that we will overtake Al-Qmatieh. In reality, we could have taken Al-Qmatieh, but we got word that we are not to do so. Walid Beik said no. I looked at Wafic as we watched the poor Hezbollah boys run to where they came from and said” Wafic, I seems we didn’t die today, there is nothing we can do about it, we have to be patient (Badna ntawil balna). The funny thing was Wafic’s forearm was soaked with blood. He was hit with a bullet in the arm and had no clue. I would have loved to go down to Beirut and help the Mustaqbal boys. But there is only so few of us and we need to defend our villages first. What a cowardly attack. They attacked boys in the streets of Beirut who are neither armed nor experienced. Nothing can be more cowardly. When this is over we should train the Mustaqbal boys. If we can get missiles, and heavy artillery, between, the Druze, almustaqbal, and alqouwat, we will clean up the Dahiya in no time. We don’t need America or France we just need guns similar to what they have. Cowards. I just hate cowards. They boost standing up to Israel. Well this is different. This is not firing laser guided missiles at a tank 3 kilometers away. Nor is it shelling katyoushas and then rushing to hide in civilian neighborhoods under the kitchen sink.
2 Samir in Baisour
I am Samir from Baisour. We got word that Hezbollah has taken positions on the hills overlooking Baisour from Kaifoun’s side (Kaifoun is a Hezbollah town). Well we did not like it. We didn’t even understand why they were doing so. We have lived as brothers with our neighbors in Kaifoun for hundreds of years. Do they think that Baisour has a CIA or an Israeli post. We just didn’t understand it. Well the boys got very anxious especially the young ones. They could not wait; they wanted to start fighting now. I remember looking at Jamil the son of Mhana, who is barely 16. He was bouncing up and down, wearing his Brazil football shirt, holding a machine gun in one hand and a soccer ball in the other, wanting to rush and fight. As if there was a very important football game where Brazil is playing and he can not miss one second. Thanks to cell phones, when people got the word, they were pouring into the street with their guns. Some even came with hunting rifles. We tried to slow them down, but really we couldn’t; especially after Hezbollah starting firing at our village. What was most notable is that some elderly people from Kaifoun suddenly showed up and said. “We want you to know that we in Kaifoun are against what the Hizb is doing. We told them that we are family with the people of Baissour and we don’t want any problems. But they don’t listen to us. They come from other places with orders and there is nothing we can do about it”.
We were all moved with what this man had to say. We felt sorry for him. But we told him that we appreciate his gesture but Hezbollah need to leave.”

We got word that Hezbollah in Aley have lost more than 50 fighters and that they are shelling Alley with Missiles to slow our fighters down. We don’t have any missiles or any cannons. We gave it all to the Lebanese Army. All we have is machine guns and RPG’s. The attack started. Druze fighters from all over the mountain were pouring into Baisour. It was a beautiful sight, a majestic sight of fervor and bravery. They rushed to the battle front chanting and singing as if going to a wedding. It was so meditative, so rhythmic, so Druze.

And we poured on them like a bolt of lightning. They kept on bringing more and more enforcements but we will not stop. Suddenly they starting shelling us with missiles and 155 canon shells. They hit Ghazi Aridi’s house. Fortunately his wife and his kids were evacuated earlier. Our commanders starting coordinating with the Aley commanders and they have decided to take over the Hezbollah towns of Al-Qmatieh and Kaifoun. Before the offensive can start, it was ordered off. We were also asked to stop shooting and give them a chance to retreat. It is a miracle we have lost only two fighters and they have lost more than twenty. A miracle.

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3 Mama said no name, I am 16 from Aitat
My mother said I am not allowed to give you my name. Yes I was in the battle of Aitat. I am 16 years old. Well nothing much to it really. We are a small village, you know, and not a match for Hezbollah army. They can kill us all but not before we destroy most of their army. So we hit them as they approached the center of the village. We were firing at them from the woods above and from the north side. They were trapped and became lost. Trying to find an escape route but couldn’t. We kept firing until it was over. My mother doesn’t like me to mention how many we killed. She said it is nothing to be proud of. She says it is sad because these people also have mothers, sons and wives. I just wish they did not come to our village. This way no one would have died. That is all. As I said, there isn’t much to it really. I hope this war will stop soon so I can go back to school. I want to become an engineer and work in Dubai.
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4 Sami – Sleiman’s son; hold the onions mama
I am Sami the son of Sleiman. I heard my father say that Hezbollah has sneaked into the shouf from the backside. From Machghara in the Bakaa and places that I don’t know. The people in my village started talking and calling each other. They said that they entered from the barouk side and are close to Botmy and Neeha (Shouf villages). Men started organizing. My father said we need to prepare ourselves for battle. We are going to defend our mountain. My father took out the two klashins we have and started getting them ready. I was afraid that my father will go without me. So I grabbed one of the guns. My mother looked at my dad and he said to her. He is 17 he is a man now. My mother did not utter a single word. She just went to the kitchen and started preparing mjadara. Mjadara is my favorite dish. She wanted to make sure that I will have mjadara and basal as my zawady. But I knew I was not going to eat the basal because If I died, I did not want to die smelling of basal. I could see her cry as she was preparing our food. My father looked at her and said. “What happened to your beliefs (wane ymanik ya mara). No one will die one hour before his time. If it is our time, so be it. We will be back in the next life”. We took our guns our bullet magazines and off we went. The streets of the shouf were busy with men of all ages carrying guns and collecting themselves in groups and going to different fronts. I even saw women. Yes women with guns. Could you believe that. One of them was carrying an RPG. She had a nice military outfit. She must be from the hizb-al-ishtiraki. I wish I had an RPG.
We formed a caravan and we drove up to the hills. Different people were going to different fronts. I had no idea where we were going. We rode in Wajdi’s pick up and we joined eight other cars. It was dark already we could hear the bullets and the explosions. My father said ”you only do what I say”. We come from a religious house, we joined other people like us. My father is very brave, I have never felt any safer being close to him. After the cars were parked, we joined another group. The commanders, one of witch is my father, held a meeting and starting planning for our battle. I thought, they will have maps, but they didn’t. They were drawing the terrain maps and the ridges and the peaks on pieces of paper. The locals know every stone and every tree of their hills. They divided us into smaller groups. Each small group had a leader and each four leaders reported to a commander. There were about 60 of us. The shooting was getting louder. You could see the flashing of guns and the RPG rockets exploding all over the place. It seems there were several fronts. Hezbollah must have hundreds of men. Bullets were coming from all over the place. My father said we should outflank them. We split into two groups of about 30 each. My father took our group down into the valley (wady) and around the mountain. The plan is to have amou Abo Akram’s group engage them heavily so they will partially retreat for shelter around the mountain where our group will be waiting.
As we slowely and quietly moved, ( we were asked to leave behind any equipment that might make noise). After a while. My father chooses a spot above the ridge. He wanted all of us to remain as close to the ground as possible totally out of sight. He choose a spot for each one of us and gave each his own set of instructions. And said no one will move or open fire regardless how close they get until I say so. As we positioned ourselves firmly. We started getting flashlight signals from the other side of the ridge. It seems that the boys from an adjacent village had the same idea and positioned themselves on the other side of the ridge. My father responded with his flash light and the two were communicating. Don’t ask me how but it seems that they totally understood each other (I learnt later that this light communication method was inherited from the days of Amir Fakherdine, when they used to use fire to communicate with other fighters from one hill to the other. Nothing has changed except technology). My father then quickly changed our position so that we will not end up being in each other’s line of fire (meaning with the other group). We waited and waited and then started hearing heavy shooting and RPG explosions from Amou Abu Akram’s side. In less than five minutes we started spotting them from the other side. It seems the plan was working. We stayed put and waited until most of them were in our range. My heart was beating so fast, I thought it might explode. And yet my dad is not giving the signal. Few minutes later, he shouts “ YA ABOU IBRAHIM” and opens fire. Within a second both our groups were firing on them. It was a brilliant plan, just brilliant. We were hunting them like birds. Then we charged and so did the group from the other ridge. I felt like an eagle with wings nothing can stop me. We routed them completely. Then my father made us all stop. He wanted to give them a chance to simply retreat. We could have had at least ten more of them, but my father would not allow it. They are no longer a threat. We fight with honor. I wanted to go down and pick up one of the RGP’s they left behind. But my father said no. “Don’t worry Abu Akram’s team will collect their guns. It is time to pray and go home.”
It seems all the Shouf battles were victorious, we started hearing similar stories from other groups. They surrendered their positions to the Lebanese army and withdrew from the Chouf. I don’t know much about politics or about the leaders in Beirut. I was told that Walid beik did not want Hezbollah to be humiliated in the Chouf especially after the humiliation in Alley. So he ordered Hizb Al-ishtiraki to always give them a chance to withdraw and not entrap them. I don’t go to Beirut. I have no business in Beirut. We like the mountain. Our financial situation is very modest. I am still in school. But I help my father in taking care of the orchards especially during the olive picking season. I love to hunt and I love Lebanon and the Chouf mountain. They say Iran wants to come and take over Lebanon. But I say why do they want to do that. We are not hurting anyone. We have some land and few heads of lambs and we make and sell olive oil. We just mind our own business. We are not bothering anybody.

The Bravery of the Bani Mahrouf

Allah Yor7am kel el shohadaa bel Jabal bass just for the record:

Date : On the 11th of may 2008
Location : Dayer Kobeel
Place : House of Shaykh Allem Nassereddine
Time : 7 p.m

9 guys stopped the invasion of hizbollah in dayeer kobeel.

1-AL SHAYKH Allem nassereddine
2- AL SHAYKH Malek zeineddine
3- AL SHAYKH Wassim zeineddine
4- Ma3en abou fakhereddine
5- Kifah hatoum
6- Mersel kordab
7- Nasser Kordab
8- Nabil kordab
9- Haysam khaddej

For 4 hours they have stopped hizbollah invasion to the whole mountain
For 4 hours hizbollah army could not move one inch
For 4 hours they have fought 5 groups of hizbollha each group consisting of 12 soldiers with full equipment total number 60 soldiers.
For 4 hours they fought and killed more than 25
For 4 hours the invasion of the barbarians was stopped in dayer koobel by only 9 guys.

After hizbollah soldiers got mad from the 9 guys because they had lot of causalities they called the Lebanese army to ask the group to surrender their weapons to the Lebanese army.

While the 9 guys were giving their weapons to the army, Hezbollah shot Shaykh Allem Nassereddine ( Shaykh el shoukha ) in his head from the back. The remaining 8 continued fighting but they were shot from the back by anoher Hezbollah group.

Just for the record, the Lebanese army watched Hezbollah while they were shooting the guys.

Let the whole world know that Hezbollah did not only kill them but tortured them in a barbarian way.

Let the whole world know that Hezbollah could not fight 9 guys that were blessed by Bou Ibrahim.

Let the whole world know that more than 5 groups of Hezbollah could not even defeat 9 guys

Let the whole world know that all of us are Shaykh Allem nassereddine “shaykh el shyoukha”, Shaykh Malek zeineddine, Shaykh Wassim zeineddine, Ma3en abou fakhereddine, Kifah hatoum, Mersel kordab, Nasser Kordab, Nabil kordab, Haysam khaddej

What is killing me that I was not with them (Allah yor7am kel el shohadaa bel jabal)

Allah Kbeer

THe "300" Heros, which inflicted an auto destruction to hezbollah

The failure of Hezbollah’s latest effort to tilt the political and military balance in its favor was visible in the eyes of the mild inhabitants of the Shia village of Qomatiyeh on Tuesday, as they buried a young Hezbollah man killed by Druze fighters. According to the villagers, the young man, Suleiman Jaafar, was first wounded then executed by members of the Progressive Socialist Party. Such frightful ferocity will greet Hezbollah in every hostile location it would ever wish to control.

There is great poignancy in the fate of the people of Qomatiyeh. With Kayfoun, the village is one of two Shia enclaves in the predominantly Druze and Christian Aley district. The inhabitants, far more than their brethren in the southern suburbs or the South, must on a daily basis juggle between a past in which they coexisted with their non-Shia neighbors and a present and future in which the neighbors view them as an existential threat. That story written large may soon be the story of Lebanon’s Shia community after the mad coup attempt organized by Hezbollah last week. In the past decade and a half, Hezbollah has injected regional animosities and an antagonistic and totalistic ideology of confrontation into tens of thousands of Shia homes, quarters, towns and villages where such attitudes have no place. Whatever brings the Iranian concept of wilayat al-faqih – the guardianship of the jurisconsult – to Qomatiyeh? Suleiman Jaafar may have been a Hezbollah member, but he was more than anything else a village boy caught in a fight far bigger than him, than all of us.

A solution appears to have been found for the immediate crisis that began last week. The airport and roads have been opened, but there never was a way for Hezbollah to emerge successfully from the conflict it created. Militarily, the only way the party could have momentarily broken the deadlock in the mountains was to mount a massive invasion of Aley and the Chouf, using thousands of men and its most sophisticated weaponry. The Druze would have remained united – as Talal Arslan’s supporters and other Druze opposition members were united with Walid Jumblatt’s followers at the weekend. There would have been carnage, and had Hezbollah prevailed, it would have had to hold unfriendly territory indefinitely, locking down resources and manpower. Then what? An invasion of Metn? Kesrouan? Jbeil? The North? Not even the most ardent Hezbollah believer would have seriously argued that such a project was feasible. Military stalemate would have prevailed, and even if the stalemate had collapsed in one area, it would have been followed by myriad stalemates elsewhere, denying Hezbollah any real political gain.

But worse, Hezbollah’s actions of last week have brought terrible misfortune upon the Shia community. As the Christians learned to their detriment during the 1975-1990 war, fighting the Sunni community in Lebanon is tantamount to fighting the Arab world. The Northern Islamists have been awakened, and with them Sunni Islamists everywhere in the region and beyond who will rally to do battle against the apostate. As Saad Hariri said in his press conference on Wednesday, fitna, or discord between Muslims, already exists; things may still be under a measure of control, but not for long if the situation worsens. As Hariri implied, if Hezbollah chooses to break the Future Movement and the Sunni moderates, it will soon have to face the most extremist Sunnis.

The Shia community is obeying a leadership that cannot be said, in any way, to have ever understood the essence of the Lebanese system. Hezbollah and its secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, will often insist that sectarian compromise requires handing the party, and Shia in general, veto power over political decision-making. But that’s not what the consociational system is about; the point of the sectarian arrangement is not to build a system based on mechanisms of obstruction. It is to force the different communities to reach compromises in order to avert mechanisms of obstruction. Hezbollah has repeatedly tried to ignore this by imposing its will in the street or through its guns. The result has been a gathering, strengthening alignment of adversaries that will fight hard before allowing Hezbollah or the Shia to gain hegemonic power.

But wasn’t this reaction always obvious? Apparently not to Nasrallah and his Iranian sponsors, who never had any liking for the baroque but necessary give and take of the Lebanese order – let alone respect for the retribution that has always crippled those ignoring its fundamental rules. Through its contempt for Lebanon, Hezbollah has left itself with two stark choices: either to integrate fully into the state or to control the state. But since it will or can do neither, we are in for a long and harsh standoff between Hezbollah and the rest of Lebanese society.

The clock began counting down in May 2000, when Israel withdrew from Lebanon. This threatened to deny the party its reason to exist, even though it tried to keep “resistance” alive through the Shebaa Farms front. In 2005, once the Syrians departed, everything collapsed. The party found itself having to justify its private army against a majority of Lebanese that opposed Hezbollah’s state within a state and its lasting allegiance to the Syrian regime. In 2006, as the national dialogue prepared to address the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons, Nasrallah sought to turn the tables by kidnapping Israeli soldiers and imposing his version of Hezbollah’s defense strategy on March 14. The plan backfired when Israel responded by ravaging Lebanon and the Shia in particular. And now, having fully discredited its “resistance” in the eyes of its countrymen, having ensured that an antagonistic population will be to its rear in the event of a new war with Israel, having weakened its non-Shia allies, Hezbollah, as both an idea and a driving force, is in its death throes. The party may yet endure, but the national resistance is finished.

It is undeniable that Hezbollah has over the years given Shia a heightened sense of self-respect. But regrettably, it has taken the party’s accumulation of arms to do so, even as Hezbollah has utterly failed to clarify the Shia role in any new Lebanon. In fact the party has consciously undercut that debate to retain its grip over its co-religionists and block the emergence of a sovereign country free of Syria. What kind of party places its own community in such dire straits? Certainly not one that can ever hope of finding itself at peace with its fellow Lebanese.

Michael Young is opinion editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut.

The Lebanese "300" Heros

In Honour of the Brave Druze Men Who Sacrificed Their Lives for Our Land, Our Villages, Our Women, Our Children, Our Honour, Our Dignity, Our Future and Our Continued Existence!
In Honour of Our Shohadaa Who Shed Their Blood to Protect Our Name at All Costs and Against Overwhelming Odds!
In Honour of the Brave Druze HEROS Who Died to Teach Us The Meaning of Honour and Gave Us Pride in Our Druze Identity While We Stood Alone in The World During Three Days of Darkness.
We Will Always be in Your Debt My Brothers. Now and Always.

Dima2akon sanat 3ordana w2ardana, dafa3at 3en sharafna

May your souls rest in peace

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1) Amin el Souki
2) Fadi el Souki
3) Shadi el Souki
4) Marwan el Jurdi
5) Shadi Arbid
6) AL SHAYKH Allem Nassereddine
7) AL SHAYKH Malek Zeineddine
8) AL SHAYKH Wassim Zeineddine
9) Wael el Bitar
10) Ma3en Abou Fakhereddine
11) Kifah Hatoum
12) Mersel Kordab
13) Nasser Kordab
14) Nabil Kordab
15) Haysam Khaddej

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Lebanon's '300' heroes
Published: Monday, 12 May, 2008 @ 8:02 PM in Beirut (GMT+2)
By Walid Phares
Beirut - While the West is busy living its daily life, a beast is busy killing the freedom of a small community on the East Mediterranean: Lebanon.


Indeed, as of last week, the mighty Hezbollah, armed to the teeth with 30,000 rockets and missiles and aligning thousands of self described "Divine soldiers" has been marching across the capital, terrorizing its population, shutting down media, taking its politicians and the Prime Minister as hostages, and looting at will. The hordes of Lebanon's "Khomeinist Janjaweeds" have conquered already half of the Middle East's cultural capital, Beirut. As I have reported before, Hezbollah has occupied West Beirut and has since sent its storm troops in multiple directions to resume the blitz.

The burning of TV stations in Beirut

Unstoppable, including by the Lebanese Army which Commander Michel Suleiman has allowed the slaughter to occur the Pasdaran-founded militia is now hurdling towards the Druze Mountain and positioning its forces against the Sunni North and the Christian Mount Lebanon. Ironically, the geographical bases of Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon, are well guarded by the United Nations Interim Forces (UNIFIL). Per a UNSCR 1701 in 2006, more than 10,000 international troops are stationed across the southern parts of Lebanon, technically protecting the 200 Shia towns and villages from where the bulk of Hezbollah fighters came from. Hence, free from guarding their own areas, a dozen thousands well trained "Hezbollahis" have marched north to join another 5,000 already based in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

This huge force, by Lebanon's standards, was joined by an undetermined number of real Iranian Guards, shipped from Tehran to man sophisticated weapons offered by the Khamanei regime as a gift to topple the democratically elected Government of Fuad Seniora. In addition, from the four corners of the country, Jihadist and ultra radical organizations have joined the fray including: The Nazi-like SSNP, the Amal Movement, the Wi'amWahhab pro-Syrian militia, and many others. And to top it, Damascus was able to neutralize the Lebanese Army which has been equipped recently by the United States. Its Commander, a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic was "convinced" by the Assad regime to open the passages to Beirut and all other regions for the hordes to thrust into their enemies' backyards. Reminding us of the tales of Greek Antiquity, this Xerxes -Khomeinist- Army burst into the capital, whipping out the thin internal security forces and reigning with brutality.

Hezbollah's "Immortal Guards" against the "300"?

After securing the Muslim side of the city, the "Immortal Guards" -since most of the Hezbollahis believe in martyrdom as a path to eternal after-life, encircled the mostly Druze Mountain from all directions. Closing in from the coast, the south and the Bekaa, thousands of fighters and their heavy artillery were ordered into battle this week end. The massive "Persian" Army is now attempting to take these passes into the Bekaa and from there into the North and the Christian Mountain. In a sense these may become Lebanon's Thermopylae: A vast Hezbollah Iranian-backed Army unleashing its power against few Lebanese Spartans, to dislodge them and open the paths for the rest of the country. Indeed, it looks like the few hundred Druze fighters in Aley and the Shuf -who have decided to fight on their own, may become Lebanon's "300". The vision is chilling. Despite the calls by their leader Walid Jumblatt, now hostage to the Pasdaran in Beirut, to desist from resisting, the mountainous peasants decided to fight and resist the onslaught. The balance of power is terribly uneven. The forces of Hassan Nasrallah, hyper armed by "Xerxes" Ahmedinijad, line up thousands of soldiers, Special Forces, missiles and endless containers of ammunition. They have hardened their battle experience through years of fighting against a powerful Israeli Army, Air Force and Navy. Nasrallah is convinced that his Army of Suicide-bombers has defeated the region's nuclear super power in 2006. Hence, a few "hundreds" of Druses won't even stand for a day. Logically, he is correct. The Lebanese Army was tamed by Hezbollah, the Sunnis of Beirut collapsed in few hours, the Christians are intimidated, the U.S and Europe fears Hezbollah's Terror and the Arab regimes are terrified by his myth. Who on Earth will resist the Khomeinist Xerxes? Well so far, Lebanon's 300 have.

The Grand Hezbollah Plan

The first waves of attacks launched by the Iranian backed forces aimed at seizing the first portion of the strategic Damascus Highway (the I-70 of Lebanon) linking Beirut to the Syrian border via the Mountain. The offensive began from Kayfoun towards Baysur. Instead of seizing terrain, Hezbollah lost Kayfoun with heavy casualties (about 23 killed) and the Druze fighters of the Socialist Party planted their flag on the enemy bunker before they pulled back to their positions. The Iranian commanders were stunned by these mountain "Rangers." But the Druze had only AK 47 with one or two clips of ammunitions; rarely an RPG. While the whole of Lebanon was watching with fear, awaiting their turn, the "300" were repelling the waves of "Immortal Hezbollah" who in fact got very mortal in 24 hours. Another battle raged in Aley and the "Persians" lost again: 9 casualties or so: Among the bodies, three Iranians. Near Aley the strategic hill 888 was assaulted repetitively but the defenders repelled the "Guards." Later on, the Druze transferred the hill to the Lebanese Army. Nasrallah's troops then stormed Deir Qubal but were pushed back towards the surrounding hills. Hezbollah tried to seize Ein Unub but again the attack failed.

Druze clerics Hezbollah Guard

Then Hezbollah ordered its forces to advance on the coastal axis towards Shouifat. There, the Druze pulled back inside the town allowing the "Hezbos" to take the control of the beaches and the adjacent roads. But when the Iranian backed militias moved toward the neighborhoods, their advance was stopped. Frustrated the "Xerxes" War Room decided the grand assault by early Monday: More than 2,000 Khomeinist-trained commandos took the back roads to the Barouk Mountain coming from the southern Bekaa. Their target are the Ma'aser heights and from there to the district capital of the Shouf, Mukhtara. From south Lebanon, the hordes of Hezbollah are marching across Jezzine, Toumate heights in Niha el Shouf into the southern frontiers of the Druze lands. According to reports, 5000 Hezbollah/Iranian/Syrian infantry, backed by rockets and artillery are to close in from the south. The Druze, youth and elderly, have mobilized all they could, but are isolated with little ammunition. Their adversaries are numerous, well equipped, fanaticized and have their supply lines opened to Syria and via Damascus, to Iran. The tableau looks like a real collection of small Thermopylae where the "300" of Lebanon will be fighting a Goliath.

Pasdaran and Hezbollah's forces

But irony is that the United States and other Democracies, whose forces are present in the area and ships cruising the waters along the Eastern Mediterranean, and who have committed to fight terror around the globe may be watching these "300" falling in this epic fight. The greater irony is that these peasants of Mount Lebanon have withstood the mighty machine of Hezbollah for three days and maybe for a few more, while the standing myth internationally was that no one on Earth can defeat this Terror force. Well, for few days the myth of invincibility of Hezbollah was shattered. Eventually if the powers -who have already spent 500 billion dollars on the War on terror- would fail the Lebanese "300" in their mountains, the legend will be owned by the those little intrepid and courageous peasants. But if Washington and Paris would quickly assume their strategic responsibilities -which they initiated by voting UNSCR 1559 to liberate Lebanon- then perhaps Khomeinist-Terror won't plant its banners on the Eastern Mediterranean.

Dr Walid Phares is the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the author of The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad.