The Resistance and the Lebanese State: Clarifying Misconceptions – Analysis

Hezbollah unveiled specs of newly-used ‘Qader 2’, ‘Nasr 1’ missile. (Photo: via Hezbollah subject media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Writing successful the Al Mayadeen Arabic website, Ghassan Melhem, Professor of Political Science and International Relations astatine the Lebanese University argues that the Lebanese Resistance derives its governmental legitimacy and ineligible validity chiefly from its embodiment of the people’s volition to face the Israeli enemy. The Palestine Chronicle translated and summarized his nonfiction below.

There are those who proceed to claim, from present and there, that the resistance, oregon much accurately, the Party of Resistance, is simply a “state wrong a state” successful Lebanon! This connection misleads the public, distorts reality, and misrepresents some the enactment and the resistance. It is unacceptable, illogical, and should not beryllium near unaddressed arsenic if 1 were accepting oregon agreeing with it. Such statements autumn nether the class of unfairly attacking the absorption and spreading hatred against it.

The Question of Sovereignty

Lebanon’s nationalist sovereignty faces numerous, adjacent significant, challenges. It appears incomplete and fragmented, lacking afloat structure, conditions, and descriptions. The aforesaid applies to Lebanon’s nationalist independence.

The crushed for this is the continued Israeli concern and aggression, successful summation to outer interventions—both planetary and regional—that power Lebanon’s interior affairs, arsenic good arsenic the overseas domination implicit the Lebanese authorities and governmental authority.

Notably, Western power successful wide and American power successful particular, on with interior subordination to overseas hegemony, lone worsened Lebanon’s dependency.

From this perspective, Lebanese absorption gains adjacent greater importance. This absorption is driven by the nationalist volition for independence, sovereignty, dignity, and nationalist interests.

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Government, Military, and Official Legitimacy

There is nary uncertainty that the logic of the Lebanese state, with its dual aspects—sovereignty and nationalist legitimacy—leads to a wide nationalist equation. This equation asserts that the government, connected the governmental level, and the military, connected the subject and information levels, arsenic good arsenic the Lebanese equipped forces and information forces, signifier the instauration of Lebanon’s authoritative legitimacy.

The Lebanese governmental authorization indispensable empower the subject and information institutions wrong the country’s wide authorities policy. This includes equipping and processing the military’s capabilities—both combat and logistical—regardless of planetary decisions, peculiarly Western ones, connected this matter.

Resistance and Popular Legitimacy

The Lebanese absorption against the Israeli concern oregon aggression is simply a manifestation of the fashionable volition to face the continuing menace of Israeli concern and aggression.

Thus, the Lebanese absorption gains some governmental legitimacy and ineligible validity, chiefly owed to the beingness of the Israeli threat. It besides derives its legitimacy arsenic a practice of the people’s will—or a portion of the people’s will—to basal against the Israeli enemy.

This is successful enactment with the United Nations Charter’s proviso of the earthy close to self-defense, arsenic good arsenic the Lebanese National Accord Document, which affirms the close to instrumentality actions and measures to face Israeli concern and liberate Lebanese territories.

Therefore, the Lebanese absorption is not a militia, and its weapons are not illegitimate. The Lebanese absorption is the halfway and backbone of Lebanon’s fashionable legitimacy. It is not extracurricular the model of Lebanon’s authoritative legitimacy oregon the state’s nationalist legitimacy.

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Official legitimacy and fashionable legitimacy are 2 sides of the aforesaid coin, integral to Lebanon’s nationalist legitimacy. Official legitimacy cannot contradict oregon reason fashionable legitimacy; rather, it is based connected it.

Lebanon and the War with Israel

The authorities of warfare betwixt Lebanon and Israel remains successful unit nether planetary law, whether the warfare is blistery oregon cold. This is existent adjacent successful the lawsuit of a instrumentality to a ceasefire oregon suspension of subject operations and hostilities.

To this day, the Lebanese authorities remains incapable of shouldering nationalist work successful confronting the Israeli enemy.

This is simply a reality, and portion we bash not privation to judge oregon judge that Lebanon does not privation to presume this responsibility, it is, unfortunately, anemic and fragile. Lebanon suffers from governmental weakness, making it incapable of independently facing Israeli threats and dangers.

Thus, absorption remains, and for the clip being continues to be, a nationalist involvement and necessity, supporting the authorities and nether its umbrella—not astatine its expense.

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Lebanon vs. Israel

The enduring authorities of hostility betwixt Lebanon and Israel goes beyond the warfare itself. It is simply a long-term, far-reaching enmity with aggregate dimensions. It is ideological, historical, political, military, and strategic. This enmity is of large value and poses superior risks to Lebanon’s nationalist interests.

This ongoing hostility renders immoderate anticipation of normalization, peace, oregon adjacent neutrality untenable. The Lebanese exemplary stands successful stark opposition to the Israeli model, and this discrepancy endures passim the full journey, until the precise end. Hence, absorption remains an urgent, indispensable nationalist need, particularly arsenic Israel volition not permission Lebanon successful peace.

The State-Building Project successful Lebanon

As we crook to the contiguous governmental and humanities infinitesimal and effort to outline the features and parameters of the adjacent governmental and humanities phase, we reappraisal past governmental and humanities experiences to gully lessons from them. The treatment inevitably turns to the task of state-building and the request to prioritize and instrumentality it.

Calls for rebuilding the Lebanese authorities person surfaced erstwhile again. This is not the archetypal time, and it whitethorn not beryllium the last. At this captious juncture, it is indispensable to affirm that the beingness and continuation of the Lebanese absorption is simply a nationalist warrant for protecting the recently established Lebanese authorities from Israeli violations and aggressions.

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In this context, the absorption tin basal with the service against immoderate Israeli effort oregon conspiracy aimed astatine undermining the Lebanese authorities oregon targeting it.

The Lebanese absorption is an inseparable portion of the Lebanese state, alongside its radical and military. The “triple equation” is not surreal; it is not detached from reality. The absorption belongs to the people, defending and protecting some them and the state arsenic a whole. 

The relation of the absorption successful defending Lebanon complements the relation of the service successful confronting Israel arsenic Lebanon’s enemy. This is simply a humanities and indispensable truth, 1 that is fixed and inevitable. It is the highest nationalist interest.

(Al Mayadeen Arabic Website – Translated and prepared by the Palestine Chronicle)