Une interprétation du nouvel horizon d’action du Hezbollah
par Ibrahim al-Amin, rédacteur en chef d’Al Akhbar
Hezbollah and the New Levant | Al Akhbar English
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/hezbollah-and-new-levant
when Hezbollah decided, openly and blatantly, to penetrate the heart of the battle against the armed groups in Syria, it did so with awareness of its new role. It is not an objective reaction or a tit-for-tat service provided to the Syrian regime after a quarter century of support.
Common sense says that this mission seeks to regain the individual and collective rights of Arabs to resist the occupation of the US, Israel, or their agents in the Levant.
The new role of Hezbollah is to lead a Levantine – if not Arab – current, aiming to redraw the political, economic, and social map of a country of 75 million Arabs. Hezbollah can be a lever, but cannot produce a complete transformation and never claimed so.
Common sense says that this mission seeks to regain the individual and collective rights of Arabs to resist the occupation of the US, Israel, or their agents in the Levant. The mission aims to revive the real national identity of all Arabs.
In the first phase, it requires the elimination of all narrow viewpoints, whether we call it “an independent national decision” or “my country first.” This means all of the people of the Levant, from Palestine and Jordan, to Lebanon and Syria, to Iraq, Turkey, and the Arabian Gulf.
As a consequence, I advise anyone who wants to get rid of Hezbollah to start acting as if the issue is no longer related to military and security groups, a neighborhood or two, or a border strip monitored by an international police force or the like.
I am speaking of a current with a mix of leftists and Syrian and Arab nationalists. It has a tremendous base of poor who aspire for full independence that protects their cultural and social diversity, before the political and the administrative. It is this diversity that will eliminate the thought of takfiris led by the Saudis and their relatives.
C’est certainement un texte important mais qui pose aussi beaucoup de questions, comme je l’évoquais dans un précédent post (▻http://seenthis.net/messages/145269) :
– Abandon de la posture de libanisation pour une arabisation du conflit
– Ce changement de vision et de justification va à l’encontre des explications du même Ibrahim al-Amin dans ses précédents éditoriaux justifiant l’intervention du Hezb en Syrie par la défense de ses intérêts nationaux et libanais et notamment du maintien de ses lignes d’approvisionnement et de ses repères identitaires chiites
– Mais quelle base sociale et politique pour ce renversement majeur d’orientation et d’idéologie politique ? I. Al Amin évoque un courant de gauche et de nationalistes arabes. Hormis dans quelques cercles intellectuels à Beyrouth, existe-t-il un soutien à un tel mouvement ? la capacité de mobilisation de la jeunesse chiite - et au-delà, de la population chiite libanaise - que vante I. al-Amin dans ce billet correspond-elle à cette vision ? On peut en douter.
