Ruling Bloc 's History of Conspiring against Hezbollah
Recent decisions taken by Fouad Saniora and his ruling bloc have removed all doubts in the validity of the information that uncovered during and after the July 2006 Israeli war against Lebanon, over the ruling bloc's collusion against Hezbollah. This has intersected with what Israeli circles unveiled recently about phone calls made between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government and Saniora in which the latter demanded Israel not to stop the war until crushing the resistance and eliminating its secretary general Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah.
"I have been informed by a senior political source that in the last 24 hours of the war, the Israeli government and its chief Ehud Olmert received a message from the Lebanese government demanding not to stop the war until Hezbollah gets a deathblow adding that they even prefer that Nasrallah be liquidated", said Emanuel Rosen, an Israeli political analyst.
In the same context, the author of 'The Spider Web' Avi Issacharoff said that "we unveiled for the first time in our book that moderate Arab countries as well as people close to the Lebanese government delivered messages through different sides to the Israeli government requesting the continuation of the war until Hezbollah crushed."
The July war ended. Israel and whoever bargained on its victory were defeated. But the scheme of liquidating the resistance didn't stop and, according to some Israeli official circles, resorted to tools within Lebanon. This was illustrated in the magnitude of Washington and Tel Aviv's interest in keeping Saniora in office. Olmert also revealed he had made contact with Saniora.
"I hope something will happen in Lebanon and I can say that two world leaders are working upon my request to pave the way for a personal meeting between me and Saniora", Olmert said in an interview on January 4, 2008. "I talked to them personally and they were excited to go for it. I'd prefer to keep the rest of the details for myself, but many messages have been passed on", he added.
Israeli expert in Arab affairs, Yoram Binur, said Israel sees in toppling Saniora a tactical danger and a fundamental strategic one.
Consequently, MP Walid Jumblatt, who was frustrated by the results of July war, pressed on with inciting against the resistance and exploited his membership in International Socialism to meet with Israeli Knesset Member Colette Avital.
"Actually, I met Jumblatt several times; we were introduced to each other in the framework of International Socialism gatherings. He thinks that Nasrallah is returning to his normal status and that eventually, Hezbollah will be disarmed one way or another", Avital said.
This campaign, which Jumblatt crowned with creating the 'airport problem' and raising Hezbollah's communications network file, is in fact an organized plan that includes sacking Brigadier General Wafiq Shqeir, the head of Beirut's International Airport security body, since he is not loyal to the ruling bloc. According to Israeli sources, the campaign was waged by Jumblatt to cover his role in the massive security operation Israel had planned to carry out in Dahyeh (Beirut's southern suburb).
Yes, and the March 14 alliance’s latest attempt to jump-start a civil was its declaration yesterday that Hizbullah’s telecommunications network is an “illegal threat to state security.”