Throughout history, countries around the world, have
experienced financial trouble and have recovered. Like then, countries around
the world, are today experiencing financial trouble and are recovering. One of
these countries is Lebanon, which is going through financial difficulties at
this time, but will recover as it did through several cycles in the past.
There are many reasons why a country might go through
a period of financial trouble. To suggest––by indirect inference or
otherwise––that it happens to all of them as a result of one and the same
reason, is to show an appalling level of ignorance and delusion. And guess
what, my friend, it took none other than Clifford D. May to make such inference,
not realizing that such is the implication of what he is saying.
He did so in an article he wrote under the title:
“Iran's Hezbollah virus infects Lebanon while attacking the world,” and the
subtitle: “More debilitating than COVID-19 are the terrorists beholden to
Iran's rulers.” May had the article published in The Washington Times on March
17, 2020.
Like it or not, the indirect inference that Clifford
May is making, is that Hezbollah alone was responsible for the financial disruptions
experienced by the various countries throughout history. But that is obviously
an absurd proposition. It is absurd––if for no other reason––than Hezbollah has
been around for only 40 years, and could not have developed the influence to
affect anyone before that.
As to what happened after Hezbollah was formed at the
start of the 1980s, it must be said that its financial clout amounted to only a
fraction of Israel's clout that was combined to that of the World Jewry
supporting it. Let us not forget that Hezbollah was formed in response to
Israel's aggression against Lebanon, and has been busy ever since, struggling
to get on its feet while at the same time defending Lebanon against a vicious
enemy whose savagery knew no bounds. With all this on its plate, Hezbollah
could not have been responsible for the financial disruption of Lebanon or any other
country.
But how can someone like Clifford May be so confused
about the situation in Lebanon and the surrounding region? Well, you'll get an
inkling as to what the answer to that question may be when you take a close
look at what Clifford May wrote in his article. Here is a pertinent passage:
“Lebanon might not be in terrible shape today were it not infected by
Hezbollah, agent of Iran ... Iran's rulers created Hezbollah”.
The truth is that in the early 1980s Iran was the
friend of Israel and the enemy of the Arabs. Iran cheered every time that
Israel attacked Lebanon or any Arab country. Rather than Iran creating
Hezbollah as falsely claimed by Clifford May, it was Israel's aggression that
did. Fed up by the failure of the Arab countries to protect Lebanon, the newly
formed militia, now calling itself Hezbollah, turned to Iran for moral support
and for the kind of material assistance that its fighters needed to defend
against Israeli incursions into Lebanon, and to fight America's military
occupation of the country.
Had Clifford May been faithful to history, he would
have written a different article. But he didn't for a reason that is too
obvious. In fact, that reason is detected in the second half of May's article
where he spews his vitriol and reveals his paranoia with regard to the
magnificent system of defense that Iran has assisted Hezbollah to build in
Lebanon. As can be seen, the effect of that system has been the deterrence that’s
keeping Israel at bay. It has helped enforce the state of peace at a border
that used to be a feasting ground for a cannibalistic Israeli army equipped
with deadly American weapons.
But the Jewish establishment, of which Clifford May is
a member, knows that its reliance on America to protect and encourage Israel's
savagery, is eroding. So then, what can someone like May do to bring to Israel
the protective umbrella it needs to resume behaving savagely along the Lebanese
border? Well, what May can do is look in the Judeo-Israeli playbook, and repeat
what the Jews have been playing for centuries. It is a game that's played in
two approaches simultaneously.
In one approach, you slander the opponent to make it
sound like he is so evil, he deserves what he is about to get. Clifford May did
that. In the other approach, you call on someone powerful to do the job for you
by delivering to your opponent a punch so severe, he will not recover for a
long time, if ever.