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The Push for Israel-Lebanon Peace Risks a New Confrontation With Hezbollah

The Push for Israel-Lebanon Peace Risks a New Confrontation With Hezbollah

The possibility of direct talks between the leaders of Israel and Lebanon as announced by President Trump on Thursday would mark a historic step for two neighboring states that have been technically at war for 78 years.

But the talks would leave one of the main belligerents on the sidelines: Hezbollah, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that has been at war with Israel off and on since the 1980s.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to the White House for the first high-level direct peace talks between the two countries in decades.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", Hezbollah, Lebanon

RCMP, CSIS reviewing Vancouver company accused of ties to Hezbollah, minister says

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says Canadian national security agencies are looking into a B.C. company accused of financial ties to the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.

The RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service are “reviewing the situation and then they will have more to say,” the minister, who oversees the agencies, said on Wednesday.

And once again we learn of skullduggery from our neighbor to the south.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Hezbollah, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

The global crime network funding Hezbollah’s defiance of Israel

Millions made from drug trafficking and illicit diamond trading mean the militant group will remain a threat unless its financial infrastructure is dismantled

One of the first targets Israel struck in its renewed war on Hezbollah this month was a bank branch in Beirut. Lebanese television carried images of the aftermath, showing scorched $100 bills fluttering along the street. This was not a misdirected missile and in the days that followed the Israelis would strike again at 30 other bank branches across Lebanon, all belonging to Al-Qard al-Hassan, a financial institution with links to Hezbollah.

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Can Hezbollah hang on? Militants defiant but attitudes shift as bombs fall

In Hezbollah’s northern stronghold, officials explained how far the tentacles of the Lebanese militant group extend into everyday life. “They run schools, food banks and hospitals, operate banks which support the poor,” said Ahmad Tfayli, the mayor of Baalbek. The Shia group, he claimed, never ask about religion and, he added, keeps the peace.

However, there’s little sign of peace in Lebanon, where as Israel’s land invasion of the south gets under way, thick plumes of smoke rise from Beirut’s southern suburbs — Hezbollah’s bastion in the capital.

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Canada promises $37 million in humanitarian aid for ̷c̷i̷v̷i̷l̷i̷a̷n̷s̷ Hezbollah in Lebanon

OTTAWA — The Carney government is promising more than $37 million in humanitarian aid for civilians in Lebanon caught in the crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah.

“We call on all actors to immediately de-escalate the situation and engage in constructive dialogue to prevent further suffering,” said Randeep Sarai, secretary of state for international development.

h/t k196

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Hezbollah’s Drug Empire: The Cash Pipeline Fueling Iran’s Most Dangerous Proxy

Hezbollah has built one of the most sophisticated hybrid criminal-terrorist enterprises on earth. Its drug-fueled revenue streams — cocaine from Latin America, Captagon from the ruins of Syria, and money-laundering networks that snake through four continents — now generate billions of dollars annually.

That money buys precision-guided missiles, pays fighters, funds an elaborate social-welfare empire inside Lebanon, and keeps overseas cells active from Buenos Aires to Bangkok.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHezbollah

Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli Intelligence

Right up until he was assassinated, Hassan Nasrallah did not believe that Israel would kill him.

As he hunkered inside a Hezbollah fortress 40 feet underground on Sept. 27, his aides urged him to go to a safer location. Mr. Nasrallah brushed it off, according to intelligence collected by

Israel and shared later with Western allies. In his view, Israel had no interest in a full-scale war.
What he did not realize was that Israeli spy agencies were tracking his every movement — and had been doing so for years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Hezbollah

Joe Adam George: Dirty money from Canada mustn’t prop up Hezbollah’s narco-terrorism any longer

A 60-day ceasefire deal between Israel and the Shiite Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah is now in force after months of a full-scale war between the two sworn enemies. However, it would be delusional to think that this deal will keep the Jewish state safe from an army of genocidal jihadists whose hybrid-guerilla warfare methods inspired fellow Iran proxy, Hamas, to carry out the October 7 massacre. If anything, this temporary truce offers Hezbollah much-needed respite from the pummeling it has received at the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) since September.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Hezbollah, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Hezbollah names the late Naim Qassem as new boss

Hezbollah has chosen Naim Qassem as its new leader to replace Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike last month.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the Lebanese militant group, announced that the Shura Council, its main central decision-making body, had “agreed to elect his Eminence Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary-general of Hezbollah”.

h/t patthedog

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Hezbollah Tunnel Entrances Abut U.N. Peacekeeping Position, Israel Alleges

LABBOUNEH, Lebanon—On a forested mountainside near the border between Israel and Lebanon, two tunnel shafts descend dozens of feet into the rocky earth.

Around 300 feet away, the blue United Nations flag waved atop a peacekeeping observation post.

The Israeli military took a group of reporters into Lebanon on Sunday to see the shafts, which it said were among hundreds of tunnel entrances and underground bunkers used by Hezbollah militants to store weapons and hide fighters west of the Lebanese village of Labbouneh.

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You’re kidding, you expected them to integrate? Windsor mosque honours slain Hezbollah leader, sparking online outrage

A well-attended gathering at a Windsor mosque on Sunday to celebrate the slain leader of Hezbollah — listed by Canada and other countries as a terrorist group — has sparked online outrage.

“We don’t believe Hassan Nasrallah is a terrorist,” said Hussein Dabaja, a co-organizer of the Windsor gathering and a Lebanese-born Hezbollah supporter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Hezbollah, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Hashem Safieddine: potential next Hezbollah leader ‘even more hardline’

When Israel assassinated Abbas al-Musawi in 1992, there were celebrations at the demise of the Hezbollah leader whose militants had harried Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. His successor, Hassan Nasrallah, propelled the group to new and more dangerous heights. With Nasrallah now dead, his possible replacement, Hashem Safieddine, may hope to do the same.

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Michael Higgins: Hezbollah was unprepared for Israel’s fury and determination

In June, Hashem Safieddine, the possible heir to the now dead Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, threatened Israel by saying, “Let (the enemy) prepare himself to cry and wail.”

But for quite some time, and especially since October 7, Israel has not been content to just mourn its dead, to watch idly as bombs rain down on its cities, or to be the world’s scapegoat for all the troubles in the Middle East.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Hezbollah

Why killing of Hassan Nasrallah marks beginning of the end for Iran

For decades he was the face of the Iran-backed group, and once claimed victory over Israel, but his death in an airstrike shows none of its enemies in the Middle East are safe, writes an expert on the region

“The Israeli military warship which assaulted our infrastructure, look at it … burning.” As the camera cut to footage of the burning warship in the sea opposite Beirut, the words of Hezbollah’s secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, in a televised speech during the 2006 war between Israel and the Iran-backed group cemented his image as a larger-than-life leader. He was the strongest paramilitary and political actor in Lebanon for more than three decades and his killing by Israel is a transformative moment for the group and will have repercussions across the region.

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