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Senior Hezbollah official says group offered to open all-out war, Hamas didn’t think it would halt Gaza op
2023-12-24
Such generosity of spirit.
[IsraelTimes] Senior Hezbollah official Nawaf Musawi says the Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
 terror group believes another major front on the northern border would not stop Israel’s campaign in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 Strip.

"We asked our brothers in Gaza what could we do? If to initiate an all-out war in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
. Would that stop the war in Gaza or not?" Musawi tells Lebanon’s al-Manar TV network.

"Their response was no, it would not stop it, the war in Gaza will not end, only with Israel’s victory inside Gaza," he says.

The border between Lebanon and Israel has seen escalating exchanges of fire since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, raising fears of a broader conflagration. Tens of thousands of Israelis have been evacuated from northern border towns, which have been repeatedly targeted by the Hezbollah terror group.

Since hostilities began in October, more than 140 people have been killed on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters, but also more than a dozen civilians, three of them journalists, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side, four civilians and eight soldiers have been killed, according to officials.
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Hezbollah: Large swaths of north Israel belong to Lebanon
2008-11-05
A senior Hezbollah official on Monday said the Lebanese militant organization believes that large swaths of northern Israel belong to Lebanon, far beyond the line Israel pulled back to in 2000. "The Zionist terror organizations moved the border from that of 1920 to that of 1923, and Lebanon lost seven villages and twenty farms. One must be cautious before moving the border to the Blue Line, because then Lebanon will lose millions of square meters," said Nawaf Musawi, head of international relations for Hezbollah.

In referring to the Blue Line, Musawi was speaking of border demarcation the United Nations published in 2000 after the Israel Defense Forces withdrew from southern Lebanon.

Musawi, who is known as the group's "foreign minister," made the comments at the close of a meeting with the Norwegian ambassador to Lebanon. He branded Blue Line, which runs very close to the 1949 Israel-Lebanon border known as the Green Line, as merely a "withdrawal line."

The official's comments mean that Hezbollah has territorial demands beyond the disputed Shaba Farms in the Golan Heights and the divided northern village of Ghajar. While various Lebanese Shi'ite figures have made these demands in the past, Hezbollah has abstained from doing so in recent years.
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Hezbollah torpedoes Cousseran mission to Leb
2007-07-27
Top French diplomat Jean-Claude Cousseran on Wednesday wrapped up a three-day mission without making much progress in breaking an eight-month deadlock among Lebanon's feuding political parties. Cousseran told reporters that his meetings with Lebanese leaders were useful and aimed at paving the way for a Beirut visit this weekend by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. He did not elaborate.

But several sources said Cousseran's efforts were hampered by the refusal of the powerful Shiite Hezbollah party, which leads the opposition, to agree to join discussions with rival factions in Lebanon. "I believe Hezbollah does not want to move forward on a meeting in Beirut among the country's political parties," said Youth Minister Ahmad Fatfat, who is a member of the anti-Syrian majority in parliament.

Another member of the majority told reporters on condition of anonymity that it was suggested to Cousseran that talks similar to the ones held in France among all the rival parties take place in Beirut, but Hezbollah refused.

The July 14-15 meeting at Saint Cloud, near Paris, sought to nudge the parties into ending a crisis that threatens to scuttle presidential elections set for September, thus plunging the country further into chaos. Nawaf Musawi, in charge of international relations for Hezbollah, said his party was keen on the French initiative succeeding, but that this could only take place once a government of national unity was formed. "We must not waste time in discussions," Musawi told reporters. "A national unity government must be put in place and it would be up to that government to discuss lingering problems."

Hezbollah is pushing for the opposition to be better represented in government in order to give it veto power. The majority, however, is demanding that the opposition beforehand stop blocking parliamentary sessions in order to ensure the quorum needed for the presidential elections to replace pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud.

Cousseran has met with officials from across the political spectrum since his arrival in Lebanon on Monday, including representatives from Hezbollah, which is backed by Syria and Iran. On Wednesday, he met with parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a member of the Shiite opposition, and said the two had discussed Cousseran's recent visit to Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. "We had a lengthy and useful conversation that touched on the recent conference in Saint Cloud," Cousseran told reporters. "We also discussed my meetings in neighbouring countries and with a number of Lebanese officials."
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Hezbollah froths at Welch
2006-01-16
A Hizbullah official described U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Welch, as a "depraved low employee" in the U.S. administration, and accused the U.S. of interfering in Lebanon's internal affairs.
"Depraved"? He didn't seem depraved when I went to lunch with him. We had the baked babies, if I recall, with a nice beaujoulais...
Talking to The Daily Star Sunday, Sayyed Nawaf Musawi, Hizbullah's officer for external relations, said Welch's visit to Beirut Saturday represented the "worst shape of interference in Lebanon's internal affairs."
A visit? That's interference in internal affairs?
"The price of this visit, which aimed at delivering U.S. instructions for Lebanese officials, was the injury of 15 of Lebanon's students. It was a despicable American step to try and create problems and chaos in Lebanon, and to try and instigate the sectarian feelings and tension in the country," Musawi said.
So lemme get this straight: Welch shows up for talks with Leb officials. Hezbollah and Amal and the rest of the Syrian puppet organizations call out their minions for a few riots. 15 of the little bastards manage to get themselves thumped or hosed, and it's Welch's fault? Isn't that a stretch, even for Arab blame passing?
The Hizbullah official added that the U.S. move represented part of the American plan for the region. "They want to use Lebanon as a bargaining card and instrument of pressure in their plans for the region," Musawi said.
Sounds like he's suffering from delusions of importance...
Welch, who left Beirut for France Sunday morning to meet with leader of Parliament majority MP Saad Hariri in Paris, denied accusation of interfering in Lebanon's internal affairs Saturday, and said following a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora: "I doubt that anyone can seriously say that the U.S. is interfering in Lebanese politics ... If anything our motive is to protect Lebanon, not interfere inside Lebanon," he said.
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Terrorists call US "sponsor of terrorism." Go figure.
2001-10-03
  • Hussein Dakroub Associated Press Writer
    BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Activists and clerics at an Arab-Muslim conference, including the leaders of Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, denounced the United States on Wednesday as a "sponsor of terrorism" for its support of Israel. The hastily organized conference was called to "discuss how to cope with the aftermath" of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States, said Nawaf Musawi, an official with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.

    Among the 200 delegates at the two-day gathering were two of Israel's leading enemies, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, and Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, head of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. The United States has characterized both as terrorist groups, although they were not on the U.S. list of groups and individuals whose accounts President Bush ordered frozen in the wake of last month's attacks.

    Delegates claimed Washington's campaign against terrorism was aimed at "regaining complete American hegemony on the entire world."

    "The United States exploited the humanitarian tragedy to which thousands of innocent Americans had been subjected to present itself as a victim and conceal the real picture of the U.S. policy, which is based on oppression, domination and aggression," delegates said in a statement at the end of the meeting, read out by Musawi.
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