Dotting the I’S & Crossing the T’S
The emirate & the army between the resistance & Al-Mustaqbal
Written by Nasser Kandil,
The end of the Northern events in Lebanon for the account of the army is no longer a matter of debate, and if we assume that what has happened in Bab Al –Tabbaneh was a political settlement that led to the worst possibility, which is the escape of the wanted militants and the entry and the spread of the army, this is doubtful, but if this was true according to premises, then it is due to the first term of confrontation which despite the fact that it has the surprising element within the rows of Al-Nosrah and ISIL according to accurate coordination and a distribution of the roles, it shows that the army is ready for the fiercest confrontations and for the violent fighting, it has a ready plan to absorb the first shock then to move towards the opposite attack, this is what all the observers agree on describing the decisive battles from the ancient souk to the Minnieh, Behnine, and Bab Al-Tabbaneh.
Everyone who observed the process of fighting says, that the army was carrying out a clear decision of determination, it was fighting relentlessly , it used different kinds of weapons, quantities of ammunitions, and ways for progress and dispersion, these ensure that it was just thinking of the military determination, it is not improbable to bet on the contacts for ceasing fire, since it is neither ready to receive them nor to respond to them, putting in front of its sight a stable fact, it is called not to repeat the tragic experience of Arsal.
If there is at the end what is called as a settlement, then it will be as the army says : We will enter Bab Al- Tabbaneh, our tanks will bomb every window from which the shots are ejected, we will kill everyone who face our progress, if the militants assume that they will escape from us, it does not matter, because we will destroy, seek , inspect, and pursue, their withdrawal benefits them not us, it concerned them not us, it is a settlement between the mediators and the militants, not between the army and the militants. It is the political outcome of the military determination without any omission.
With the recognition of this fact, it is stable according to a comparison with the scene of the great armies of the region whether in its magnitude, funding, and arming such as the Iraqi army, how its strongholds have collapsed in front of similar attacks and plans of hundreds of the militants, or as the exaggerators said about tens of thousands who dominated on Mosul and Tikrit. The Lebanese army is unlike the image of Arsal, it is an army that has the determination, ability, the morale, and the intelligence information, although the meagerness of its weapons and the political coping, especially the active forces in the processes area.
Lebanon is divided between two currents, Al-Mostaqbal Movement and the resistance , in this battle the passage current to the country was under the leadership of the President Saad Al-Hariri who declared of a speech in favor of the army, while he was looking towards making the resistance bearing the responsibility of the weakness of the country and the emergence of the militants moreover, moreover, that it caused what is named as unfair security system alignment, which in his point of view the intelligence of the army, which its preparation, its intelligence preparation, and its accompanying to what is going on the field were the reasons of the success of the military process
Al-Mostaqbal movement has presented only the (whining) upon the army and its performance, and the doubt of what is doing , reiterating the word “ it is needed … but we are with army “ the leaders of Al-Mustaqbal including its ministers have prepared themselves with previous speech to attack the army, which they predicted its failure in the first military confrontation, and some of them were waiting for the its appeal as a mediator in order to say gloating: “ You see, we told you before, let Hezbollah benefits you “.
Al-Mustaqbal movement was trying to incite on the relationship between the resistance and the army, whether by considering the resistance as the source of detraction of the solemnity of the army, because it possesses a weapon parallel to its weapon, or by describing the army as if it lives the inferiority complex while it is seeing this weapon, so this will lead to losing its morale, or through the repeated accusations the of army’s intelligence by taking sides with the resistance, towards its accusation of receiving the information from the resistance, here it means Hezbollah. Al-Mostaqbal has described it as an unhealthy relationship, and it caused the abnormal situations, which represented by the terrorism and extremism. The minister Nuhad Al- Mashnouk talked about the youth of Tripoli who excited of this kind of behavior so they carry weapons, while the minister Ashraf Rifi saw in them the youth of impetuous blood, and the deputy Khaled Daher saw them as a reaction of an action that will lead to the division of the army, and to the secession on doctrinal basis.
On the other hand, the resistance was a source of confidence according to the army, that if it is forced to withdraw more of its military units from the fronts of Bekaa, then there will be who can fill the vacancy, taking the duty and ensure not to fall in the illegal. The intelligence of the army was receiving the reports, the information and the details of the intelligence from the security system of the resistance to complete what it has of information; this is necessary and exceptional to win the battle. In addition, the army with its warfare doctrine against Israel has constituted safety valves out of its confidence with its fatal relationship with resistance and a source of its high morale. It is moving forwards, confident of its victory, while it sees a partner which becomes a horror source for Israel and the terrorism, so it feels with relief to its force sources.
The emirate has overthrown and the bet on the passers from and to has fallen, the country remains with a strong army and an honorable resistance.
Everything has happened, while the President Saad Al-Hariri was examining his files of how to spend the grant of billion dollars, and the former President Michel Suleiman was verifying the specifications of the strategic weapon which suits the gift of denotation of three billion dollars, while the deputy Walid Jumblatt is saying: Maybe it delayed, or evaporated, Only God knows.
2014-10-30 | عدد القراءات 1588