Cela va sans dire mais comme c’est mieux en le disant : Washington, meilleur allié du Hezbollah…

Il paraît qu’à Washington, on n’ose pas vraiment le dire tout haut, selon cet article de Tom Lasseter, de McClatchy Newspapers et de “State.com”, site d’un quotidien de Californie du Sud.

Cela nous paraissait aller sans dire. Il semble qu’à Beyrouth on le dise sans vergogne et qu’à Washington on le chuchote. Le soutien US à Israël a considérablement renforcé le Hezbollah, pour deux raisons, — dans l’ordre :

• Ce soutien n’a pas du tout permis à Israël de l’emporter, donc de réduire le Hezbollah, mais Israël a au contraire été battu. Cela renforce le Hezbollah.

• Les attaques d’Israël ont également eu pour conséquence d’affaiblir le gouvernement libanais, autre brillante manœuvre puisque ce gouvernement est ami des Américains et soutenu par eux. Il s’en déduit que le gouvernement libanais est d’autant plus vulnérable aux pressions du Hezbollah.

Ce brio indescriptible de la diplomatie américaniste est ainsi décrit par l’article cité :

«American political leaders watched with alarm during the past week as the Hezbollah militia laid siege to the U.S.-backed Lebanese government, but few would acknowledge publicly what most analysts and politicians here say is obvious: U.S. policy might bear much of the blame.

»Many in Beirut say U.S. failure to stop Israel’s onslaught against Hezbollah last summer crippled the Lebanese government — a U.S. ally — while strengthening Hezbollah — a U.S. enemy. That created an environment in which the Shiite Muslim militia could call for overthrowing Sunni Muslim Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and his Cabinet.

»“Hezbollah has more support in the population now because they are the ‘victorious resistance,’” said Cabinet member Ahmed Fatfat. “And it weakened the government because we did not get any concessions ... the last war was a disaster for Lebanon and the image of the United States.”

»Fatfat, like several other Cabinet members, has been in hiding at the government building in downtown Beirut for days as tens of thousands of protesters outside demand a new administration led by Hezbollah, a group that’s on the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.

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»Last week, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group recommended in Washington that the Bush administration reach out to Syria and Iran — U.S. foes — in a search for ways to resolve Iraq’s violence. The group called for Syria to cease aid to Hezbollah and to stop trying to topple Saniora’s government as part of a deal that might include Israel returning the Golan Heights to Syria.

»But those suggestions seem behind the times as Hezbollah presses its campaign to force Saniora out.»

Mis en ligne le 11 décembre 2006 à 11H57