Lebanon says it won't ask Hezbollah to disarm

Hezbollah has Lebanon in their pockets. Both sponsors terrorism .

Lebanon is so fragile that it can only say yes to Hezbo. It lives on the edge always having to placate a very divided populace. It is always on the brink. Asking the goverment to stand up to Hezbo is like asking someone to lasso the moon. There are few choices for Lebanon- civil war or keeping their fragile country together, however much they dream.

As long as there are armed groups like Hizbollah with their own agenda ruling areas of Lebanon then there will never be peace or stability for Lebanon. Ben Gurion forcibly disarmed pre state armed groups like Etzel & Lehi because in an independent state there can be only 1 armed force and that force is answerable only to the government. That is supposed to be what the Lebanese armed forces are there for. If HIzbollah had been disarmed then the 2006 Lebanon war would never have happened because unless they were complete fools the Lebanese government would have never ordered the army to go into Israel and kidnap soliders which is what provoked Israel into going to war. Without being ordered to the Lebanese army would not fire rockets on Israel. Hizbollah are the main obstacle to peace with Lebanon and if the government was smart they would introduce legislation allowing only the army to have weapons and all armed groups must hand in anything they have and if they don't then they will be forcibly disarmed. Right now there are foreign troops in Lebanon the government could ask to help disarm Hizbollah. The international community can donate some shiny new tanks & airplanes with the Lebanese flag painted on, hold a couple of military parades down the streets of Beirut and make the people feel confident and proud of their national army who they will feel they can turn to in wartime no need for Hizbollah. The government can then say to the people we have no love of Israel but we are a responsible government in the name of stability we want Hizbollah disarmed and our boys are more than capable of taking on Israel should it come to war. As long as the government formerly allows Hizbollah to keep their weapons then if Hizbollah drag Israel into another war the government will be held responsible same way as they would be responsible if the national army attacked. If Lebanon wants stability and any hopes of peace in the long term these is no other option but to disarm Hizbollah and a mix of brave legislation, sell the idea to the people the army can do the job and with help from international forces Hizbollah can be disarmed or at least delegitimized and without legitimacy its harder to operate.

Good job on making Hezbollah even stronger now us americans are going to have to pay for it ...

A defense strategy is not needed. Hezbollah can do just fine on it's own thank you. And let's not yap about legalities. In this region that's an alien term.

it is in the interest of syria to make peace with israel and live in peace and even development Egypt should be they context example.

ever wonder why no other Arab country wants Hezbullah protection?

EZEKIEL 32:27...The uncircumcised,which have gone down to hell with their weapons of war:and they have laid their swords under their heads,but their iniquities shall be upon their bones,though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living

"Lebanon has claimed the latest victory in the continuing battle with Israel over which country can make the largest serving of hummus." Reference: BBC 8 May 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8670473.stm

Lebanon is not a country but is made up of sects that are loosely held together under a Mickey Mouse government that cannot control anything including road traffic.

Lebanon is not a sovereign nation and does not have enough autonomy to ask Hizbollah anything. Syria still controls Lebanon while Iran controls Syria.

Lebanon does not have to disarm - Hezbollah does. That was the deal to stop the last war, started by Hezbollah, and brokered by the U.N. The weapons should be transfered to the control of the Lebanese government and out of the hands of Hezbollah. It is crazy for the Lebanese government not to do this - they are in violation of a Security Council resolution, and will never believed again to keep to their word. Lebanon better pray that a new war never starts - it will only end with their absolute surrender as their word means nothing, they have no credibility at all.

The sign reads...I dont recall any though apart from aggression. Grow up! Your PR campaign is a failure, you are unable of delivering your message.

then carry on like this and face the consequences !

It makes a lot of sense to me. Lebanon has no protection except Hezbollah against another Israeli invasion. Any Israeli government can decide it needs a war to solve a domestic political crisis. By making such a war more expensive for Israel, Hezbollah safeguards them.

Saying they wont disarm Hezbula until a plan is achieved to stop israel attacking lebanon, is like saying aspirin causes headaches, and the headache will only go away once the aspirin threatens to not be ingested by a human.

The Lebanese Government Should ask the US and Russia for the Most Sophisticated Weapon Systems and Training for its National Army before any local debate about the Lebanese Resistance disarming, especially in the face of Israeli daily threats, and lack of serious regional peace moves.

The government of Lebanon (minus the Hezbollah brawny bait trolled from afar by the Pirates of the Persian Gulf) and the good Lebanese civilians are as much as disposable Arab waste in the proud Persian regime's hands as they craft and execute their militant foreign policy towards Israel. Iran is counting heavily on draining Israel's military resources in confrontations with Lebanon and perhaps Syria but avoiding any damage to their own forces and assets in Iran. A few million dollars thrown after the conflict towards the despised, defeated Arabs and their wrecked infrastructure will very quickly buy back their shallow souls and consciences again when blessed with pacifying proclamations of perceived victory against the superior forces of Israel.

How many anti air craft guns of the regular Army fired on Israeli Jets when they pounded Beirut? NONE! I hope Hezbollah gets the New World Order crowd out of the government and becomes the Government. I doubt there are ANY citizens of Lebanon that want Hezbollah to disarm.

Lets ask israel to disam first! How about that.. Don't make laugh...

the christians in beirut are tourists and go to the beach.the sunnis have no power.even hizballah has to receive their orders from the two rulers iran and syria.

the head of the large druze faction walid jumblat followed by kissing assad's hands and begging for forgiveness.

a new state has taken over.it is hazbillahstan.a satrapy of iran's.it hs more firepower then the so called lebanese army. it is dictated to by syria and financed by iran.

...Israel's discontent when the Israeli missiles come flying across their border. Israel has already warned Lebanon that next time there will be no apologies for innocent civilian casualties.

Hezbollah are the only defence for leabanese people. i wouldn't expect the right wing war hungry israeli nuttas to understand that but the rest of the world does and support the right to self defence.

Israel entered Southern Lebanon in the 1980's as the civil war was raging. The instability of the area was a threat to Israel. The Lebanese Army was a poor excuse for itself. With Hezbollah Lebanon has a strong military presence and has brought stability to the south. Even if there is a final peace agreement with Israel and Lebanon, Hezbollah will never relinquish its arsenal. This will continue to be an internal struggle in Lebanon unless the government allows Hezbollah to be the national defence force.

the IDF are cowards, they only attack whose who do not have the means to make them pay, and we saw from the 2006 war, Hezbullah made them pay a price they never expected.

to the Government of Lebanon "A United Nations deal to end the 2006 war between Israel and the Shiite militants required Hezbollah to disarm" The deal is encapsulated in UNSC Res 1701. Try reading it, try finding where it requires the official Lebanese resistance movement (Hezbollah) to dis-arm. Fact is, it DOESN'T.

Lebanon doesn't exist,except in name. Hezbollah gives the tone. But if & when Lebanon is destroyed because of Hezbollah's intransigence. Poor old Lady Sinyora of Lebanon will crawl on all fours to beg,& cry. "See what Israel has done" But not a word of complaint against Hezbollah & Iran that were the real culprits that brought Lebanon to its knees.

Israel has built settlements in every territory which they have occupied except Lebanon. The reason for this is that Hizbollah never let the IDF have any peace during the occupation of Lebanon and eventually Hizbollah ran the IDF out of Lebanon. If not for Hizbollah, there would certainly be Israeli settlenets south of the Litani.

i guess the Lebanese should ask Syria and Iran to stop shipping weapons.

civil war. The Lebanese government has a short memory. It was Hezbollah that attacked Israel.

lebanon has been the punching bag of israel for decades now, thousands of lebanese civilians, have been the victims and billions of dollars was the cost of the good neighborhood. hisballa are lebanese men who decided to resist the agression and liberate their land, and they have the right to do so since the lebanese army is not allowed by the US and israel to own any serious defensive weapons, particularly land air missiles.

That movgie was just the Mickey Mouse version of that region with the eyes of the IDF. The Lebanon is the only civilised nation in the ME. Yes, thats civilisation. How groups of completely different orientation live together in one state. As long as neighbors dont interfere. With Syria in a special position since it is the traditional protectiv power.

Lebanon asking Hezbollah to disarm? As if.... The Lebanese government is so petrified of those thugs that they wouldnt dare ask them to disarm. Hezbollah basically has unfortunately become the strongman in Lebanon and the Lebanese government would risk civil war if it asked these monsters to disarm. Sad but true.