Opinion Blog / Guest Columnist
Lebanon faces a choice: will it choose good or evil?
It was interesting to read in ALL ISRAEL NEWS that the majority of Lebanon favors disarmingHezbollah and supports peace talks with Israel. It was also encouraging to hear that the Christian communities topped that poll.
So it is important for the Lebanese government to listen to its people. But will it? Hezbollah holds 13 seats in the Lebanese parliament, so will they really just go away?
Lebanon needs to act now before it is too late. Hezbollah has become a state within a state, dragging Lebanon into a war that the people don’t want. It now has seats in parliament, yet the government is supposed to do the will of the people.
Jordan faced the same decision many years ago. Yasser Arafat set himself up in Jordan, creating a state within a state. But Jordan dealt with him, and he was expelled from the country in 1971. Since then, Jordan has had a good relationship with Israel. I wonder what would have happened if Jordan hadn’t expelled Arafat. How fractured would that relationship be today if Jordan hadn’t done what it did?
Today, if Lebanon wants peace, it needs to do the same thing. It’s no good leaving the rotten apple in the barrel—it needs to be taken out, or it will damage the others.
If Lebanon is not careful, it may face a coup and lose its country to a terrorist organization. The government must listen to its people. Hezbollah is already dragging the country into war with rockets and drones fired into Israel. But if Lebanon doesn’t deal with the rot, Israel will—and that could be painful.
Israel cannot allow Hezbollah to control the south of the country. It cannot allow Hezbollah to set up rocket launchers and dig tunnels along the border. Israel does not want another October 7-style attack on its northern border, so it must act to protect its country and its people. We thank every soldier who is working to protect the northern border of Israel. Soldiers have given their lives to defend that border, when the UN should be doing its job but isn’t.
Getting rid of Hezbollah will contribute to peace in the Middle East. Pro-Palestinian marches around the world think that getting rid of Israel is the solution, but in reality, destroying Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s terror capabilities is the answer and the only solution to the current situation. Freedom will come to the Palestinians in Gaza, freedom will come to the Lebanese in the north, and freedom will come to the Iranian people once terror is destroyed.
You can’t appease these people—you have to root them out. Israel appeased the world by removing all the Jews from Gaza. The Palestinians were given their own piece of land to develop and build something amazing, yet we all know what they did with it. They built a terror network that committed the biggest massacre in Israel’s history. We need to learn a lesson from that.
Today, the Lebanese government has a choice. Which will you choose?
It reminds me of the Bible verse in Joshua 24:15:
“And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Will you choose to follow the god of terror and destruction? If you do, you will reap the consequences. Or will you follow the God of peace?
Following the God of peace will result in blessings with trade deals, security, and peace “I will bless those who bless you.”
Do the right thing, Lebanon. Listen to your people and choose peace.
Paul is a Christian journalist
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