We always hear about the “traitor rhetoric” in Lebanese politics. Nothing exemplifies this more than the recent uncovering of Israeli spies. Apparently, one spy is thought to have links to the Hariri’s Future Movement. Hezbollah wasted no time in jumping on this as proof that the Future Movement are in cahoots with the enemy and calling them traitors essentially.
However, when three spies that were found out were thought to have links to Hezbollah, no one in the March 14 camp commented on this as being proof of treason.
Hezbollah went further, recently accusing “other politicians” of promoting an environment in which spies became more abundant (read this article). Apparently, they did this by “fomenting sectarian hatred”.
Hezbollah wants to be able to operate in our country without any controls. What kind of a resistance is that? If its our resistance, then we have the right to control it. We have the right to control what they do. Otherwise, its dictatorship. Now its liberate the South. Next, it can be anything, from liberate Palestine, or impose religious law.
I can easily imagine a day when Hezbollah will impose new laws affecting the freedom of the press to control what is being written about Israel and the resistance. They can be storming press institutions before we know it. What will stop them from storming the Nahar offices if that paper writes something they do not agree with?
