Hezbollah

[Muhaha]

Re: Hezbollah

I believe the answer is in the article ""Our problem with them (the Israelis) is not that they are xxxs, but that they are occupiers who are raping our land and holy places"

What steps does Hezbollah want Israel to specifically take? Dissolve itself as a state and become Lebanon?

[Haykakan]

Re: Hezbollah

I see this thread is still active. It's good to know that the Islamists have some cheerleaders here on HyeClub!

You wont find me cheering for any religion or religious group because of their religious teachings but i do admire and respect Hezbollah for resisting the genocidal, racist and narcistic state of Isael.

[Haykakan]

Re: Hezbollah

So what exactly does Hezbollah want Israel to change about itself?

I believe the answer is in the article ""Our problem with them (the Israelis) is not that they are xxxs, but that they are occupiers who are raping our land and holy places"

[Muhaha]

Re: Hezbollah

So what exactly does Hezbollah want Israel to change about itself?

[Federate]

Re: Hezbollah

I see this thread is still active. It's good to know that the Islamists have some cheerleaders here on HyeClub!

It's more of a nationalist group these days. You don't even need to be Muslim to join it.

Hezbollah cuts Islamist rhetoric in new manifesto


(Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah group announced a new political strategy on Monday that tones down Islamist rhetoric but maintains a tough line against Israel and the United States.

The new manifesto drops reference to an Islamic republic in Lebanon, which has a substantial Christian population, confirming changes to Hezbollah thinking about the need to respect Lebanon's diversity.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who read the new "political document" at a news conference, said it was time the group introduced pragmatic changes without dropping its commitment to an Islamist ideology tied to the clerical establishment in Iran.

"People evolve. The whole world changed over the past 24 years. Lebanon changed. The world order changed," he said via a video link.

Stressing a history of struggle against Israel, the 32-page document said Hezbollah had to remain alert and wary of Israel: "Israel represents a constant threat and an impending danger to Lebanon."

Nasrallah, reading from the document, said U.S. "arrogance" prevented Hezbollah and other Arabs and Muslims from forging a friendship with the United States, Israel's chief ally.

"The American administration's unlimited support to Israel ... places the American administration in the position of the enemy of our nation and our peoples," he said.

NO DISARMAMENT

Nasrallah said Hezbollah needed to keep its arms, despite opposition from Western-backed political groups in Lebanon.

"The (resistance) is a permanent national necessity that should last as long as the Israeli threat, and in the absence of a strong, stable state in Lebanon," he said, quoting the document.

Hezbollah was formed with the backing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It came out into the open as a mainly guerrilla group in 1985 but quickly began establishing social and medical networks among Lebanon's impoverished Shi'ite community.

Nasrallah said a new political document for Hezbollah was needed to cope with events since the last manifesto in 1985, when Hezbollah was more of an armed resistance group fighting Israeli occupation forces.

Hezbollah members first entered parliament in 1992 and in 2005 the group it had its first government minister, completing its rehabilitation as a political party.

Attacks by Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and Syria, were instrumental in Israel's decision to withdraw from south Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation.

Hezbollah, listed as a terrorist group by the United States, also fought a war with Israel in 2006 that cost Lebanon a heavy civilian toll but its guerrilla force was not defeated on the ground.

The manifesto pledges that the group would strengthen itself despite a 2006 U.N. resolution than bans arms in south Lebanon.

Israel says Syria and Iran are arming Hezbollah against international law. The manifesto confirms the need to maintain close ties with the two countries.

Nasrallah said Hezbollah has become a global model of how to fight occupation.

"Our problem with them (the Israelis) is not that they are xxxs, but that they are occupiers who are raping our land and holy places," Nasrallah said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5AT3VK20091130

[Anonymouse]

Re: Hezbollah

I see this thread is still active. It's good to know that the Islamists have some cheerleaders here on HyeClub!

[Haykakan]

Re: Hezbollah

They should send assassins to get the ones that fled to Isreal. Mosad does it all the time.

[Federate]

Re: Hezbollah

Over the last year, Lebanon has arrested more than 70 people on charges of spying for Israel. Most of them seem to be either Palestinians or unsurprisingly, Lebanese Maronites. Some of the captured spies are former army generals. Some have already been sentenced to death while other spies have managed to flee to Israel before being arrested. These spies have been accused of giving out, among other things, valuable information on locations Israel struck during the 2006 Lebanon war.

The last month though has produced the most shocking of all spy busting operations. Lebanon's telecommunications market is dominated by two public companies called Alfa and MTC touch (formerly LibanCell). Basically, almost every cellphone in Lebanon is either with Alfa or MTC touch. At least one of these two seems to be under complete Israeli control. Two-three high ranking or otherwise important employees of Alfa have recently been arrested on charges of spying for Israel. Could you imagine the grip Israel has on Lebanon when it can basically plunge into any conversation at any time?

What is interesting is that in 2007, pro-government forces and Hezbollah fought a mini civil war on the streets over this same issue whereas the government tried to force Hezbollah to shut down its private telecom network which Hezbollah has maintained because of fears of Israeli infiltration of the state-owned ones. Looks like all the fears and allegations were true. Here's one of many articles covering this developing story as more and more people are arrested or flee south of the border to evade arrest.

Syrians have a saying about how the Lebanese would even sell their mothers out if given the opportunity...
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Hezbollah warns Lebanon telecom 'exposed' to Israel


By Natacha Yazbeck (AFP) – Jul 16, 2010

BEIRUT — Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday claimed Israel had complete control over Lebanon's telecom sector, calling for convicted spies to hang amid a widening probe into acts of espionage.

"The country is exposed and Israel... secures much information through its control over telecommunications" stretching back years, Nasrallah said in a televised address marking his Shiite militant party's "Wounded Veterans Day."

Lebanon has arrested three suspects over the past month in an expanding probe into an alleged network of Israeli spies employed in the country's telecom sector.

Two of them, technician Charbel Azzi and Tarek al-Rabaa, were likely accomplices at the company Alfa, one of Lebanon's two mobile service providers, a source close to the investigation has told AFP.

Rabaa is reportedly a transmissions engineer.

The third suspect was arrested late Thursday and "is a former employee in Lebanon's telecommunications sector," the source said.

Nasrallah linked the arrests to an international probe into the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafik Hariri, slamming the pending indictment of the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon as "fabricated."

"The Israelis, who today stand impotent before the will, steadfastness, pride and readiness of the resistance in Lebanon are banking on another Israeli project, which is called the Special Tribunal for Lebanon," Nasrallah said.

A preliminary report by the UN investigating team said it had collected data from mobile phone calls made the day of Hariri's murder as evidence.

Media reports last year said the evidence implicated Hezbollah in the assassination.

Nasrallah in March confirmed the UN team had interrogated members of his party but said Hezbollah was not in the tribunal's line of fire.

Nasrallah, whose party fought a devastating 2006 war with Israel, also called on Friday for "the execution of those given the death sentence the soonest possible."

"Before the (2006) war, these spies gave important information to the Israeli enemy and based on this information Israel bombed buildings, homes, factories and institutions," he said.

"Many martyrs died and many others were wounded," Nasrallah added. "These spies are partners in the killings, the crimes, the threats and the displacement."

Since April 2009, Lebanon has arrested more than 70 people on suspicion of spying for Israel, including security officials.

Lebanon and Israel remain technically at a state of war, and convicted spies face life in prison with hard labour or the death penalty if found guilty of contributing to Lebanese loss of life.

Two Lebanese citizens have already been sentenced to death for "collaborating with Israel and providing information on targets."

One of the two was found guilty of providing Israel with targeting information during the 2006 war.

Israel has not commented on the arrests.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iMRju2_wlD8rtkrkX6ZgU0KLSJKA

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Accused spies for Israel flee Lebanon

July 22, 2010

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Five Lebanese men accused of spying for Israel, including a former senior army officer, have fled the country.

The former officer may have taken a commercial flight to Germany, a Lebanese newspaper reported. Another may have escaped into Israel.

All of the suspects were employees of the state-owned mobile telecom company Alfa cellular, to which Israel allegedly has undercover ties.

The Lebanese government is planning to accuse Israel of espionage in an official complaint to the United Nations Security Council, its information minister, Tareq Mitri, said Wednesday.

Dozens of accused spies for Israel have been arrested in Lebanon since April 2009.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/07/22/2740161/accused-spies-for-israel-flee-lebanon

[Haykakan]

Re: Hezbollah

Listen to this, one of the few honest things you will hear in the west.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe65-nF3FQ

[Sassun]

Re: Hezbollah

For what it's worth, Israeli jets have been buzzing our skies all night long today... they are flying very low... they usually fly around in South Lebanon, and it's not too often that they fly over Beirut, at least not at such a low altitude. I think they are just trying to intimidate. Which says quite a bit about how frustrated they must be. Still, one must not stop taking seriously Israeli leaders' loss of touch with reality..... Israel is an aggressive state by its very nature, and so it makes sense to expect that war may break out any minute even without the need for any excuse. There's been a lot of talk of war lately, even though Sayyed Nasrallah's words were aimed at increasing Hizbullah's deterrence and making Israel think a 1,000 times before launching another adventure... I don't know.. the next war will be huge and I do think it will happen -- it's only a matter of time... Israel will not accept Iranian scientific advancements, Hizbullah's strengthening of its capabilities, etc.