Hezbollah

Hezbollah
Founder	Hassan Nasrallah
Interest of	United States Committee for a Free Lebanon

Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim political party and militant group based in Lebanon that the United States and European Union have blacklisted as a terrorist organisation.

In March 2016, after the Arab League designated Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, Saudi Arabia decided to cut $4 billion in aid to Lebanese security forces since Lebanon declined to join resolutions critical of Iran and Hezbollah.

Saudi Arabia and other predominantly Sunni Persian Gulf states have also cut Lebanese satellite broadcasts, expelled Lebanese expatriates they say have ties to Hezbollah and warned their citizens against travelling to Lebanon.

Jihad Council

Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese parliament.

Israeli drone strike

After the death of Abbas al-Musawi in 1992, Hezbollah was headed by its Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah. On 13 May 2016, Hezbollah's top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was reported to have been killed in an Israeli drone strike near the airport in the Syrian capital Damascus. The BBC reported on 14 May 2016 that Hezbollah had claimed Badreddine's death "was the result of artillery bombardment carried out by takfiri groups in the area" without explaining how an artillery strike could have been so surgical as to kill only him.

Thousands of people attended the funeral in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, of top Hezbollah military commander Mustafa Badreddine. He died in an explosion near Damascus airport, the Lebanon-based group said, adding it would announce "within hours" its report into the killing. Hezbollah has sent thousands of troops to support Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. In 2015, the US said that Badreddine was behind all Hezbollah's military operations in Syria since 2011. He was also said to have been involved with the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri in Beirut in 2005.

Hezbollastan

At the 2017 Herzliya Conference, organised by the Israeli Institute for Policy and Strategy, Major-General (Ret'd) Amos Gilead, head of IPS, said:

“As ISIS sinks, what rises in its place is an alliance presently forming in front of our eyes: Iran, Hezbollah, and Assad (Syria). I call it ‘Hezbollastan’, a much stronger entity that is a strategic threat to Israel."

Moscow, said Gilead, had taken a “strategic decision to support this alignment". He warned against a potential future war on Israel’s northern borders led by Hezbollastan and financially backed by the Kremlin.

Cocaine Trafficking allegation

Andrei Fursov stated in 2014 that "Cocaine is transferred to Sierra Leone, where it is exchanged for diamonds. With the diamonds they purchase arms. This triangle - Hezbollah, Syria, Iran - gets in the way of the Americans. They take the view, correctly, that eliminating Syria as an Arab partner of Iran, whether relations with Iran are good or bad, Iran will be weaker, and it will be easier to get an agreement with them. The removal of the Assad regime therefore became objective No.1 for the Americans. Likewise for Saudi Arabia and Israel."

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Ziad Abdelnour	“The Lebanese cannot have their cake and eat it, too...Let’s get rid of this cancer [Hezbollah]... Let’s finish the job.”	Ziad Abdelnour	1 August 2006

 

Party Member

Politician	Born	Died	Description
Hassan Nasrallah	31 August 1960	27 September 2024	Leader of Hezbollah

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War	7 October 2023		Gaza Israel Iraq Egypt Syria Palestine Lebanon Indian Ocean Golan Heights	Hamas attack on dozens of illegal Israeli settlements in Southern Israel provoking mass retaliatory killings by Israel. Corporate media call it the Israeli "9-11", while critics of Israel refer to "10-7" as a staged, military operation in order to manufacture consent for a disproportionate response.
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7	7 October 2023	8 October 2023	Gaza Israel Palestine Lebanon Golan Heights	Hamas attacks Israeli settlements in Southern Israel, mass raping and abducting, which get called an Israeli "9-11" by CCM. The NYT and Al Jazeera claimed the Israeli government knew of the impending attack, ignored warnings, shot some of their own civilians, made up several stories and used the resulting increased death toll to go on a revenge killing spree in the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Has the Elite’s Slavish pro-Israel Agenda Finally Gone Too Far	Blog post	25 February 2019	Craig Murray	Israeli destruction of Palestinian olive trees in the occupied territories is almost as heinous as the continuing killing and imprisonment of Palestinian children. Every morning ask yourself this question: "How many children has the Israeli “Defence” Force killed since the MSM last reported one?"
Document:Netanyahu Plays Chicken	blog post	21 September 2024	Craig Murray	Netanyahu’s strategy of assassinations and deadly stunts appears to be an attempt to goad Hezbollah out of their own territory into a suicidal advance into Israel. But Nasrullah is not falling for it. It is worth stressing that, contrary to the propaganda, in the last year Israel has hit Lebanon with five missiles for every one sent by Hezbollah.
Document:Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 20 August 2017 to the Syrian Diplomatic Corps	Speech	31 August 2017	Bashar al Assad	The US President is not the maker of policies, but the executor. Therefore, the “Deep State” in the United States does not govern in partnership with the President, but leaves him a small margin.
Document:The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel's crimes	Article	27 September 2024	Jonathan Cook	By the third week of September, Israel had killed more than 750 Lebanese, compared to 33 Israeli deaths. The differential is even starker now. And yet the western media has not framed Hezbollah’s attacks as its "right to defend itself" – a right we are continuously reminded Israel has.
Document:The Israeli Terrorist State	blog post	31 July 2024	Craig Murray	"For me it is now axiomatic that there is no two state solution and that apartheid Israel must be completely dismantled as an entity. I believe that more and more people around the entire globe believe that now. "And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it."
Document:The Relative Value of Life and Death	blog post	29 July 2024	Craig Murray	Israel has been bombarding Syria relentlessly from long before October 2023 and has continued unabated – and unreported by western media. Israel’s attacks on civilian areas of Damascus this last few weeks have been devastating. It is pretty obvious that any loose missile that dropped on Majdal Shams is likely to have come from Israel, which is slinging huge quantities of munitions into Syria and Lebanon with wild abandon.

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