News > Statements&Communiqués > 8/1/2007 A.D, 18 Zu Elhujja 1427 H

The Religious Authority Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah issued a statement in the beginning of the new year regarding the prospects of the current Lebanese crisis. He said:

“This year may be one of the most critical years in Lebanon and the region, since the region has entered an interim stage that affected Lebanon. Besides, it does not seem that there is going to be a high level dialogue between the different axes. Accordingly, the impasse, taking into consideration the interference of the super powers in the Lebanese crises, may continue in Lebanon and the entire region. This interference appears obviously through the strong role the American-French axis plays in the Lebanese crisis.”

Sayyed Fadlullah added: “Although we can not deny that there is a regional political conflict that Lebanon is affected by, we believe that the problem is not in the neighboring countries as the French President sees, but it lies in the international pressures that are exerted on our small country, especially by America and France that both aim at supporting Israel. Thus, the Israeli war on Lebanon has gained an unprecedented backing from America and Europe and its effects are still taking place due to the international movement that plays the hypocrite when it claims that it backs up the democratic experiment in Lebanon. This is because the international movement aims only at satisfying Israel.

Therefore, we see that the French insistence on riding the American train in Lebanon could not serve either the French or Lebanese interests. Hence, what is happening in reality is something different because if France wants to regain its position in Lebanon through a comprehensive coordination with the American Administration, it must know that America will prevent it from playing an independent role, and it will keep it on the margin of its policy in Lebanon as it is in the margin of its policies in the entire region.

Hence, the interference in the Lebanese crisis from time to time is just like injecting the patient with sedatives or giving him more vitamins without allowing him to have a surgical operation…. Therefore, the Lebanese will remain drown in the swamp of the current crisis, in accordance with an international decision to prolong this crisis. This decision will be translated by Paris III, since the decision to take solid moves to achieve progress in solving the political issues is not made.

Consequently, the foreign and Arab countries will continue to exhort the Lebanese during the coming weeks, calling on them to hasten to solve their problems by themselves. They are also pressing the Lebanese in order to set the solution aside or prevent them from adopting a mechanism for solving the crisis. This does not mean that the Lebanese people are not able to solve their problems, but this requires the concerned parties to take a brave decision. And at the same time, it also requires the Arabs countries to learn from the bleeding wound in Iraq, which is about to break through their backyards.

Lebanon can not be built by joining an alliance with the foreign powers that are against the nation, but rather when all the Lebanese are allied on minimum common interests. This is because the conspiratorial foreign countries may support Lebanon in money and words, but they can not establish the internal peace, because they do not want Lebanon to live in peace. They want it to be a follower in order to direct it according to their interests in the region. They also want Lebanon not to disturb Israel and to remain an unstable country and a front for pressurizing the Arab and Islamic positions.”

In the end, Sayyed Fadlullah said: “Therefore, the Lebanese have no alternative other than the real participation of all parties in formulating the new Lebanon, especially at a time political and security storms are striking the region. Without this participation, Lebanon will be the Lebanon of chaos or the country that produces the moving strives in which no specific party in particular will fall, but the Lebanese political security economic and social temple will fall on the heads of all Lebanese.