The Lebanon donor conference in Stockholm has raised more than $1 billion in pledges of new money to help with the rebuilding of Lebanon. But rebuilding concrete structures is not the same thing as laying the foundations of a durable peace. And we all know that without destroying the Islamist terrorist networks in Lebanon, there is no chance for a durable peace to gain ground in the region.   It is critical to realize that any serious and sincere plan to rebuild Lebanon has to have a mechanism to dislodge the Islamist fascist networks who have been keeping the Middle East in turmoil for decades and who caused the latest destruction in Lebanon in the first place. Without removing the destructive factors from the region, the billions of dollars will only reconstruct the buildings, roads and other concrete infrastructure to be destroyed again in another war as it does not have the facility to lay the foundation for the stability that was once the trait of the neighborhood?   Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said that his country had been “torn to shreds” by the war and aid agencies estimate that millions of dollars are urgently needed to help Lebanon back to its feet after Hezbollah imposed this war on it. Nobody can deny that Lebanon needs reconstruction but the question that needs to be satisfied is who should pay for it.   Shouldn’t it be the responsibility of the provocateurs to foot this enormous bill?   Without first assigning responsibility for the war that caused so much death and destruction, any reconstruction will only serve as an invitation to future instability and destruction. Any money spent on reconstruction of Lebanon without cleansing the region of the present day barbarians will only sow the seeds of future wars.   The first and the foremost responsibility of the international community is to identify the obvious culprits and try them in the international court of justice. Once the responsibility of causing the war is clearly assigned it will only be a matter of formality to make the criminals pay for the reparations. The world owes it to itself to stop playing the game of naiveté and act responsibly. The criminals must be made to pay for the reconstruction not just in Lebanon but in Israel too.   Wars are caused by fascist minds. They result in devastation, death and destruction. And so long as there are fascist minds, the world will remain hostage to a never ending cycle of violence. The stench of death in the air and the smoke of uncertainty rising from the smoldering rubble in Lebanon is the latest manifestation of this barbarian mind at play in the Middle East. And now that there is a break in the hostilities, the world has to prove to the citizens of the international community that it is serious in working for a permanent peace and stability in the region.   The dignity of the Lebanese people can only be restored if they are liberated from the clutches of the agents of foreign powers. The Lebanese can only live in peace if the world can support and strengthen the hands of the government of Lebanon to be able to exert its authority over its territories. And this can be done only by making it impossible for the fascist government like Iran and Syria to continue to supply the weapons to their proxy, Hezbollah. That’s why, until such time that the world can come up with a plan to implement such a control, Israel must continue its air and sea blockade of Lebanese ports and other points of entries so that Hezbollah is not re-armed again.   A permanent peace can not be established in Lebanon so long as the provocateurs, Iran and Syria and agent provocateur, Hezbollah, are allowed to feel that they can continue to play havoc with the lives of the innocent civilians with impunity. According to Morton A. Klein, National President, Zionist Organization of America, “The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 (UNSCR 1701) on the hostilities between the Lebanese Islamist terrorist group, Hezbollah, and Israel is a setback in the war on terror. It rewards Hezbollah and does not disarm it, thus ensuring future hostilities. It also fails to even name, much less penalize, Iran and Syria for sponsoring Hezbollah’s aggression and terrorism against Israel. It thus imposes no sanctions or other measures against these states if they continue to fund and supply Hezbollah. In short, it sends the message that arming terrorists not only incurs no price from the civilized world, but that it pays and pays well in advancing their agenda.”   What is being described as a ceasefire in Lebanon is in fact just a cessation in firing as the instigator of the war – Hezbollah - remains intact and armed. Its image is enhanced and status has gained new heights in the eyes of the Muslim street. No saner mind has any doubt that there will be another round of fighting. And the voices emanating from Hezbollah camp confirm this premise. During an interview, Hezbollah representative in Iran Muhammad Abdullah Sif al-Din was asked about Hezbollah’s military situation after the war. ”Our situation is very good. The Israelis didn’t manage to strike Hezbollah’s military command and our ability to launch missiles,” he replied.   There is nothing strange in Hezbollah’s attitude: never in its life, there has been a moment when it had suggested the possibility of disbanding or disarming itself without achieving its goal – the destruction of the Jewish State. This is not the first time that the United Nations has made a demand that it should disarm and allow the central government of Lebanon to extend its sovereignty over areas that are in Hezbollah’s control. But the Iran’s long arm has always ignored the world body.   The fact that all throughout the history of the U.N., the states using non-state entities to advance their terrorist causes have never been brought to account for their acts has created an environment in which states like Iran and Syria and fascist networks like Hezbollah feel confident that they can continue to hold the civilization a hostage to their agendas.   That’s why Hezbollah’s representative showed no respect for the U.N. Security Council resolutions. He said, “From the perspective of the parliament and government in Lebanon, Hezbollah is not a military militia, but a resistance force. Therefore, the clause in resolution 1559 (calling on the disarmament of armed militias – D.C.) can’t include Hezbollah. The Lebanese agreed among themselves that Hezbollah’s disbanding is an internal issue and should be solved among one another.”   Now the ball is in the court of the international community to either use the opportunity to punish the states that harbor and encourage terrorism and destroy networks like Hezbollah that have been displaying their contempt for a civilized way of life for a long time or pave the way for the religious fascists to push the humanity, one final time, into an abyss of darkness for good.