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Comment and Opinion

Jerusalem Post – 14/01/2011

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“Caving in to Hizbullah might enable transient short-term stability, but a state of lawlessness will ultimately only lead to more violence. Assassins not held accountable for their crimes will be encouraged to perpetrate additional assassinations.

With the United States at the forefront, the international community should make it absolutely clear how it intends to offer Lebanon’s government support in facing down Hizbullah, even if that provokes a renewal of sectarian violence among Sunnis, Christians and Shi’ites. But as Elliot Abrams, former US deputy national security adviser, pointed out in a recent blog entry, the present crisis is less a test of the US, France or any other country than of the Lebanese. It is for them to lead the resistance to Hizbullah. Maronite Catholics, Druse, Sunni and, yes, Shi’ites, too, must demonstrate the will to keep their country from complete domination by an Iranian-controlled terror group that spells nothing but doom for Lebanon.”

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