The liberation in 2000: the event which is still continuous

Written by Nasser Kandil,

It is not possible to approach the historic event which was known by Lebanon, the Lebanese, the Arabs, and the rest of the freemen of the world in the Resistance and Liberation Day as mere a great event that has become from the beautiful memories and among the national festivals, when this Arab small weak country was able to regain its occupied territories without negotiation, restriction, or condition from Israel the powerful country which has an invincible army, and which Egypt the largest Arab country and which has the strongest army was not able to regain its occupied territories without paying the high cost through Camp David Accords which are still constituting a restriction on its sovereignty and an affliction of its greatness, the magnitude of this event was as an earthquake which its repercussions are still drawing the regional scene and some of the international one, as well as its repercussions are still affecting Lebanon, the Lebanese, and the region, and its accomplishments are still present in the life of Lebanon and the region.

On 25^th of May 2000 the Arab and international era has ended, its title was the role of power in making politics, and a new phase started, its title is the ability of people in changing the paths of the force equations. In the experience which the Southern of Lebanon was its theatre, the nations were in the bank of the weakest possible support that could be attain in the equations of power, opposed by the equation of the bare power without any controls or taboos. The outcome of the twenty-years war between them was a World War between the two banks, where the Lebanese experience with Israel can judge the consequences of its position in a foreshadowing way for similar consequences by the force of the example, and what was possible against of Israel, would be more possible against other, the late great leader Hugo Chavez did not commit a mistake when he said that the victory of the resistance in the Southern of Lebanon gives confidence, that the weak and the poor can make their destiny by themselves announcing the starting of the Bolivarian revolutions in Latin America for the liberation from the American hegemony. It was not a mistake as well that Russia and Iran have read the event as a sign of the aging of the power system which is headed by Washington in the world and which Israel represents the claw of the wolf in it, and as the confidence in the ability in ensuring new international balances, which their features started to emerge with the rise of the Iranian nuclear program on one hand, and the emergence of the star of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and his equations for making the international balance on the other hand. As it was normal that  Washington has been affected by the consequences of the massive earthquake, thus there was an imperial military campaign that has launched toward Iraq and Afghanistan to encircle Syria and Iran and to subject them, thus affecting the resistance badly, and rehabilitating the Israeli supreme hand in the region, as the former US Secretary of State Gondalisa Rice has described the war of July after six years of crushing the resistance as the birth of new Middle East, as well as Patrick Buchanan  the leader in the Republican Party which opposed the President George W. Bush described his war on Iraq as Israel’s rehabilitating war.

On 25^th of May 2000 the Israeli occupation was broken along with the lock of the intellectual prison which was put around the neck of the Palestinians to drag them to humiliated settlements, owing to that “it is not possible better than what it was”, the Palestinians have moved on in their resistance and their uprising till they liberated Gaza in 2005, and thus the saying of the fall of the Great Israel which started to get narrow and to discuss seriously for the first time the effectiveness of the theory of occupying the land  has been devoted, in contrast the theory of the Great Israel which is based on the ability of the Israeli deterrence and the attempt to barter the security of the neighborhood with political and economic agreements has emerged. It is the ability which has become a subject of doubts after the year 2000, so that required going to the war of July 2006 to ensure it, the resounding disaster on Israel was through its fall and the fall of the Great Israel, moreover the consequences of the earthquake 2000 have been proven in the Israeli documents which reviewed the causes of the failure. After the liberation there were articles that have predicted of the transmission to Palestine as Ze’ev Schiff has done on 28^th of May 2000 in his famous article in Haartez newspaper when he said the Palestinians will not delay to get out to Erez crossing holding the flag of their country.

On 25^th of May 2000 after the  intellectual system and the theory of the security on which the Arab regime based, the era of the Arab regime which has been faded with what is known as the Arab Spring, had fallen, it means the avoidance of the Israeli threat is passing from the gate of the submission to Washington, but the cost of that is subjecting the rules of the political and economic life and the system of the freedoms to the criteria which  satisfy Washington, but the earthquake 2000 has crushed all this system, it says that the defeating of Israel is easier and less expensive than what you say, or what you want us to pay or what you pay. The clearest expression of that fall is the obligation of that system to take sides with the resistance, to be closer from it, and to disregard of the transition of its leader into the first Arab popular figure, his photos are in all the homes and in the public places, as well as the flag of Hezbollah turns into an ornament of pride and dignity that all the national occasions and weddings are boasted of, while the reverse war on that fall was by preparing the alternatives before announcing the fall, thus was the project of the new Ottoman and the brotherhood in the region, in addition to the project of the chaos,  the sectarian strife, and the sharpening of the knife of Al-Qaeda Organization after it got rusted because of the lack of usage. There is a third path beside these two paths, it is the path of the war which Israel waded in July 2006 under the slogan of the Saudi King let the adventurers pay the cost of their adventures.

On the 25^th of May 2000 the world and the region have entered the war of the continuous great strategies till today, which Syria constitutes its central arena, Syria of Hafez Al-Assad and the Syria of Bashar Al-Assad which fortified the resistance, sponsored it and believed in it as a strategic choice, it is Syria which the resistance is still constituting its additive value, and which those who engaged in it on both sides have approved that it will decide the form of the new global and regional systems. Because of this resistance Lebanon has turned into a superpower in which the people of the resistance feel of pride because of their belonging to the school which perked up their heads and the heads of all the freemen and the nobles of the world, while those who are at odds with the resistance got the concern of the major powers, where the head of a government as the Prime Minister Fouad Al-Siniora is dealt with interest from the White House because of his hostility toward the resistance unlike the Prime Minister of Japan who was not dealt like that, because Al Siniora is in the country in which he can harm the resistance  which ravaged America’s projects in the region and has humiliated its invincible force which is represented by Israel.

The 25^th of May has ended phases and opened phases, so it deserves the feature of the historic even worthily, it wrote with letters of light the names of those who made it and they will remain a landmark for the Lebanese, the Arabs, and the freemen of the world, at their forefronts the martyrs the leaders as the martyr Ragheb Harb, Al Sayyed Abbas Al- Mousawi, Haj Imad Moghnieh and Al Sayyed Mustafa Badr Al-Din whom the history will remind them despite the campaigns of distortion and demonization which the resistance is exposed to, in addition to Ho Chi Minh, Giap Vo Nguyen, and Che Guevara and Mao Zedong and others of the leaders of the wars of liberation and resistance.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,