Does the opponents of the “party” are satisfied with its defensive strategy?

Youssef Diab – Middle East

Before the recent Israeli war on Lebanon, the defensive strategy was the main title of the political forces in which it sees an inevitable entrance to organize the role of Hezbollah’s weapon, and put it under the authority of the state. But after the war, in which the party and all of Lebanon suffered with great losses, the defensive strategy has become a basic requirement for Hezbollah. This is what his Secretary -General Naim Qasim expressed in the speech he gave on the occasion of the funeral of the former years of the two years, Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safi al -Din, despite the opposition of his opponents.

Defense strategy is no longer an acceptable formula for the party’s opponents, and the so -called “sovereign forces” that consider that the data has changed from the previous one, leaving the department’s speech by the President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, who stressed the state’s right alone to protect Lebanese sovereignty, and defend the country in the face of Israeli attacks As a member of the Lebanese Phalanges Bloc, Representative Salim Al -Sayegh, refused to “the double weapon and that there is no weapon except with the Lebanese state,” noting that “The ministerial statement of the new government, which will be discussed by the Parliament, on Tuesday, spoke clearly about the right of the army and the legitimate security services to restrict the possession of weapons.”

Resolution 1701 arrangements
Al -Sayegh said in a statement to Asharq Al -Awsat: “Vocabulary cannot be marketed from the controls placed in the body of international arrangements for Resolution 1701, the department’s speech of the President of the Republic, and the ministerial statement of the government,” stressing “the necessity of researching the policy of transforming all armed militias present in Lebanon To civil work, and put a social safety network that the warriors turned into production capacity, and are able to live safely in their society, And their state. ”
And if the results of the war were sufficient to reject the idea of ​​defense strategy, and to benefit from the capabilities that Hezbollah possesses, whether by its military arsenal, or trained fighters, MP Al -Sayegh stressed that “the defense policy that the state alone sets is the one that determines the frameworks of defending sovereignty Lebanese ». He added: «In the event that the army is defeated, God forbid in any confrontation with the enemy, then the state can resort to the adaptation of reserves, and this work is entrusted with the army and security forces within the general policy that talks about the exclusive weapon in the hands of the state, that is, no party does not have the right to use weapons In isolation from the state, “noting that” defense or security policy comes within the concept of comprehensive security of the country, including border security, internal security and even social security, provided that it does not have duplication. Weapon ».

Time skip it
Opinions differ about the significance of the party, the party again adheres to the defensive strategy, and whether it is a starting point to keep its weapons or part of this weapon to maintain influence that he enjoyed for decades, but former minister Rashid Derbas considered that “many vocabulary exceeded time”, considering that “a funeral The funeral of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, despite his largeness, did not go out of the ordinary and was less dangerous than It was expected. ” Derbas assured Al -Sharq Al -Awsat that “the speech of Sheikh Naim Qasim Anati on the words of my arms, as he acknowledged that he did not exist in southern Litani. Derbas stated that Taif “resolved the issue of handing over all illegal weapons to the Lebanese state.” Derbas did not hide that Hezbollah is the most organized party in Lebanon, but it has moved from the slogan of defending the nation, to become a political party leading the Shiites, and confirms that the Shiites are Lebanese citizens and it represents them through the spotlight in the state.

And the words of Naim Qasim carried remarkable contradictions, in his speech that his party was the one who accomplished the election of the president and the formation of the government, and Minister Derbas saw that the party “attributed the credit for these two entitlements to himself, to announce even indirectly that he was fought under the banner of the state, and became a partner in all entitlements but In the political framework, especially when it confirms that Lebanon is a final homeland for all its sons and that the party is part of the Lebanese.