On Hezbollah’s decision to participate in the Lebanese government

He studied philosophy and literature at the university and Jean-Paul Sartre’s literature was an anthology. I chose for him the play “The Flies”, which is based on an ancient Greek myth, which is the legend of Orst in Argos. And in it, Akhesnus killed his brother Agamemnon, the father of Orst, and married Climenstra, the widow of Agamemnon and the mother of Orst. Her mother and father fought against the usurping slaves of the throne Aishah She is waiting for her brother to come one day, to save the city and save it. Argus returns to the city, Achesnus kills his father’s murderer and usurper and kills his mother, Clementstra. He does not feel remorse, but his sister asks him if his mother was in pain, so he warns her not to regret it and be eaten by flies.

With the multiplicity of ideas in this wonderful work, it remains essentially a work of resistance, which the German occupation stopped representing in Paris in 1943. In summary, the following scheme can be put:
EGIST: Represents occupation
Clemenstra: client representation
Orst: represents resistance
Electra – Represents ordinary people
There are two main problems in the work that I posed to my students at the Lebanese University and the Islamic Azad University.
1- Orst has killed the occupant and the officers killed the occupant in the person of his mother, which means that the officers are treated as their master occupants. According to Mao Zedong
2- First: he left the city and refused to take power
These two issues were the subject of extensive discussions, especially in the Azad University philosophy class, which included top religious science students working in Hezbollah. The discussion focused mainly on the question: “Does August have the right, after the liberation of the city, to leave it alone and not participate in its administration?” Especially since what she did created a basic variable, for which she is responsible, in terms of the effects that resulted. Examples were given, from the positions of the communists in France from President Charles de Gaulle, to the revolution in Algeria, Vietnam and the rest of the revolutions in the world; To the right of the revolution to assume power after the liberation of the country from occupation.
And consequently, based on this doctrine of the revolutionary movements that preceded it, His Eminence the Secretary General, after the liberation of the year 2000, visited the President of the Republic in the Palace of Baabda. That day, a discussion took place in the Lebanese press about this visit and the meanings it contains. I remember the late Joseph Samaha writing in the newspaper “As-Safir”:
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah not only has the right to visit the Baabda Palace, at the foundations of all the revolutions in the world, whoever liberates the country becomes the ruler in the Baabda Palace.
This is the general logic that does not apply to the characteristics of a combination that we all know in boring detail.
Hezbollah did not hold the agents responsible as their masters, according to Sartre’s views on “The Flies”, Mao Zedong and other philosophers and leaders of revolutions and resistance. And he did what Urst did by leaving power in the country to others, content to participate in Parliament and prepare the resistance force, to strengthen Lebanon from aggression and establish its missile force that established a balance of deterrence, in the one that we live under the rules of confrontation imposed, and draw clear lines of war and peace.
This situation continued until 2005, and during this period many international, regional and Arab variables occurred, the most important of which are:
1) The international attitudes expressed by the studies of the competent United Nations bodies on issues of development, freedom, democracy, good order, empowerment of women … etc., which directed strong criticism of the nature of the Arab regimes.
2) The balance of power in favor of the Islamic parties (the Muslim Brotherhood) has been lost at the expense of national movements in several Arab countries; the situation inside Palestine has become the interest of the Islamic movements, “Hamas” and “Jihad”, after the weakening of the “Fatah” movement, after a period of Yasser Arafat leadership, and after going to settlements at the expense to separate the resistance.
These events developed in the light of the encouraging international relations that brought the matter to the scene of the Arab revolutions. And there was the beginning of a change in the activity of “Al Qaeda” and Takfiri terrorism, from the stage of the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq to the construction of an Islamic caliphate, the destruction of the regional Arab system and the demolition. of the state structure in more than one Arab country.
The end of the first political phase of Haririya was related to the reconstruction of Lebanon and the advancement of the game of new balances, and the consequences of that preceded by the assassination of Prime Minister Hariri, by forces that wanted to put Lebanon in the oven of the Arab changes, then the subsequent withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon, and the issuance of resolution 1559, and the emergence of a vacuum somewhere in the Lebanese authority that threatens resistance and leads to general chaos.
The debate in Hezbollah revolved around each part of power. There was a difficult and important discussion about participation in Parliament, and whoever lived through that stage knows its merits, and it was agreed to participate in Parliament to defend people’s rights, but caution was maintained about participating in government for political reasons , including jurisprudential, considering the consequences of participating in executive powers. Be obsolete or corrupt at one stage.
According to Wilayat al-Faqih’s theory, participation in government is required, because Wilayat al-Faqih legitimizes political action. Therefore, the resistance is responsible for the effects of the changes it creates in the general political system. As happened in the discussion of the position of Urst in the Flies and other tests of the philosophy of the political mind, or the so-called mental tests.
The resistance liberated Lebanon from occupation, and therefore the implications of this liberation should not be left to the players, and the world around Lebanon is full of variables: various Islamic movements openly demonstrating their quest for power, major changes in the balance of power, withdrawal of the movements that used to rule. For another interest. The main countries seek to impose new regimes in the region, and there is the beginning and the generalization of soft war, and Lebanon is at the center of this conflict and not far from it. Consequently, the correct decision made by the wise leaders of the resistance was to participate in the government, establish the bases and achievements of liberation, protect the resistance of the Zionist enemy in the context of the preparation for war that was openly and effectively , and protect Lebanon from paying the price for changes around it, as happened with the assassination of a president. His ministers, and the consequent push of the situation to the brink of chaos and strife, and perhaps civil war, and most of the vacuum left by the Syrian withdrawal, and the imbalance it created in the power structure, used to use the Syrian role to establish their balances.
In this international, regional and national climate, Hezbollah decided to enter the government, which is a wise and sound decision, and in its appropriate historical moment, and the need for it remains, and is consistent with political action and the foundations of the Hezbollah’s political jurisprudence, as a party that measures positions on its mental bases AND mobility.
Consequently, the foregoing shows evidence from the international political literature, and the responsibility derived from the effects of the event. This is in accordance with the Wilayat al-Faqih, as it is an endorsement of the legitimacy of political action and the burden of taking responsibility and facing it, which was realistically achieved.
According to the political realities that surrounded Lebanon at that stage and the internal dialogue that accompanied it in Hezbollah, and how this decision led to the production of a wise and correct decision, which still retains its legitimacy, laws and wisdom, this does not It happened because of al-Khater’s forgiveness, or because of negligence, It is a fleeting occasion, but it happened in response to the facts and the consideration of the mind and the transference, and it is a true picture of realistic policy making.
This involvement in government has proven its worth in a number of things, including:
1- Responding to the dangers of the July war, rebuilding and stabilizing the balance of power with the enemy after the war.
2- Prevent internal forces from leading the country to chaos, and set the rules for the formation of governments in a national version, with the associated difficulties.
3- Protect Lebanon from the furnace of the terrorist war that threatened its structure and stability.
4- Establish the saying of the army, the people and the resistance as a strategic saying that strengthens the foundations of national defense.
5- Hizbullah has established effective rules for government action, away from all forms of hegemony, quotas and corruption.
And if I had the honor of being the prime minister of Hezbollah in the Najib Mikati government, in 2005, I had previously participated in international dialogues on various variables, with the participation of my friend Walid Sharara, and we knew what is happening around us. In terms of variables, we could write about them together, if circumstances arose for us, hoping that this would be accomplished with the help of Almighty God.

* Writer and former minister

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