The arrogance of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in his speeches grows every time he addresses his public. On Monday, Nasrallah said he believed that the fighting by his forces against the Syrian people represented a winning effort by a resistance group that has claimed it is fighting the Israeli enemy. Meanwhile, this group is killing the sons of an Arab people who opened its doors and hearts to them when Israeli forces bombed parts of Lebanon in 2006. Where is the modesty that Nasrallah claimed in accepting the 9-9-6 cabinet formula in Lebanon, even though he imposed this formula, after dominating the situation on the ground in Lebanon? He decides to topple cabinets, from the government of Saad Hariri to the government of Najib Miqati. Nasrallah is the one who brought down the famous Doha Accord, at the request of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei. Where is the modesty that is being claimed by Nasrallah? It is a coincidence to see this new word appear as the case file in the Rafik Hariri assassination is transferred to the trial chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. The documents detail the killing of 21 people and the wounding of 226 others, as well as the acts allegedly carried out by the accused. Salim Jamil Ayyash is accused of coordinating the attack and, along with Mustafa Badreddine, coordinating the surveillance on Hariri before the car bomb explosion. Ayyash helped set up a phony claim of responsibility, to protect the actual conspirators, and bought the truck that was used in the attack. Prior to the assassination, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Asad Hassan Sabra selected the "right person" – one Ahmad Abu Adas – to claim responsibility falsely for the assassination. Directly after the explosion, the two men spread false statements of responsibility for the attack and later delivered a video cassette with Abu Adas' claim to the offices of Reuters and Al-Jazeera in Beirut. Finally, Oneissi alone was involved in hiding Abu Adas. Where is the modesty of Hezbollah as it refuses to turn over the accused to international justice, when it was asked to, and in its covering up of other big crimes in Lebanon? How many times have we heard Miqati reiterate that he does not know where the accused are? They would appear to have gone missing, perhaps, in fighting the Syrian people, alongside their brethren whom Nasrallah sent to kill in a regime's war against its people, and alongside Iranian troops, led by General Qassem Soleimani. Where is the modesty that is being claimed by the leader of the party that kills Lebanon's prime minister, who defended him in international forums and prevented the world's leaders from placing Hezbollah on the terror blacklist? Moreover, this prime minister wanted to engage in dialogue with Hezbollah and move it away from the Syrian regime. Now, this party is providing cover for Hariri's killers and the killers of the Syrian people; it claims modesty while it controls decision-making in Lebanon thanks to its weapons; it frightens people in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which is closed to the state; Nasrallah attacks an Arab country like Saudi Arabia, where hundreds of thousands of Lebanese work. Lebanese who do not belong to any political force are disgusted by such behavior, in a fragile country in which Hezbollah is increasing the tension, division, and level of intimidation. The Iranian president, Hassan Rohani, told his French counterpart during their meeting in New York that Iran wants stability and security in Lebanon, and that Hezbollah is undertaking positive steps by opening up Beirut's southern suburbs to the Lebanese Army. The claims by Iran were buried by Nasrallah's speech. Iran is the party that makes decisions for Hezbollah and the Syrian regime. When the Syrian regime falls, which might take some time, the grip of Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon will become stronger, with American policy in the entire region undergoing a process of retrenchment and Obama insisting on forging a deal with Tehran over its nuclear weapons while ignoring the other Iran-related issues in the region, such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. As for the French idea of holding a reconciliation meeting in Saint Cloud for the various Lebanese sides, it is a welcomed move, but one that it is impossible before changing conditions in Syria and settling things there, because the arrogance of Hezbollah will seek to defeat any true dialogue.
