Doesn't Anyone Read History Books Any Longer?

By Rich Kozlovich

This article,  Rubio unveils 'framework for lasting peace' between Israel and Lebanon, appeared on the World Net Daily news site with Marco Rubio having "unveiled a U.S. plan for an end to the military hostilities between Lebanon and Israel." calling this plan a "framework for lasting peace and security." 

Let me think.... when has the last time a ceasefire was honored by Hezbollah?  Oh yeah, I remember, never!

Rubio says this will "put in place a framework for lasting peace and security. And that's what these two nations deserve".  Really?  This agreement requires both Israel's IDF to leave Southern Lebanon turning that over to the Lebanese military, and Hezbollah has agreed to embrace a cease fire.  

Does anyone besides me think that falls under the category of , "you just can't make this stuff up"?

Rubio goes on the say:

"The people of Lebanon have suffered tremendously now for decades, as a result of outside interference in their affair, of countries trying to use the country as a launchpad for attacks. And this is not what the people of Lebanon want and that's not what they deserve."

 "What they deserve to have is what they once had, and of which there is recent history of. And that is a prosperous and peaceful country, a diverse country where people of different backgrounds are able to live and go co-exist side by side, and in many ways was the envy of the region and of the world."

Okay, since Rubio is aware that Lebanon was at one time a peaceful, prosperous nation (which was once called the "Riviera of the Middle East", and it's capital, Beirut, called the Paris of the Middle East), one should ask..... what changed?  Lebanon was a Christian nation, and they allowed massive migration of Muslims into their country.  Result?  A never ending disastrous "forever war" between Muslims and everyone else.   As for the Lebanese military taking control.... That'll be the day. 

"Lebanon is a fractured society", and is incapable of making substantial changes, as they have no ability to enforce anything.  The world knows there is in no way the Lebanese government and military can control Hezbollah.  

1. They were incapable of dismantling Hezbollah's missile manufacturing plants in years past. 
2. They can't control the economy with eighty percent of their nation living beneath the poverty line. 
3. The nation is broken up into four primary groups, Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Druze Muslims, all of which hate each other, and Christians who all of them hate, and, a scattering of others.  

In 2020 Hilal Khashan writing for Geopolitical Futures (subscription site only) noted just how all this came about saying:

The First Lebanese Republic (1943-1975) collapsed because of social injustice and armed Palestinian presence. The Second Republic (1989-2019) collapsed because of rampant corruption and Hezbollah’s political domination. The Third Republic is on hold pending the fate of Hezbollah and restructuring of the Lebanese political system. For the past century, the Lebanese demonstrated an inability to solve their problems. It does not look like they have become more capable today. 

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt believes there is a major international struggle for the Middle East, and Lebanon lies beyond the ability of the Lebanese people to control. He advised his coreligionists to keep their heads low until the storm is over.

The Druze are an offshoot of Islam, and they're aware of the government's inability to protect them from the other sects of Islam, and they're scared of Hezbollah, and yet, we're to believe this "agreement" is the framework for lasting peace and security."  

The patterns of life repeat over and over again.  Here's what happened in 2018, Obama’s Shadow Looms Over US Lebanon Policy, and truthfully, I have no doubt Hezbollah continues to infest the power institutions of Lebanon, including their military, and they have no intention of honoring any agreement that will forestall their efforts to attack Israel.  To believe otherwise is historically, intellectually and realistically irrational.  Rubio can't possibly believe what he's saying!