[News] Hezbollah leader Nasrallah defeated ISIS, protected Lebanon's Christians, fought Israeli colonialism

Sun Sep 29 10:35:01 EDT 2024

Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who defended 
Lebanon's sovereignty, helped defeat ISIS and Al-Qaeda, protected 
Christians, and fought against Israeli colonialism and occupation.
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  Hezbollah leader Nasrallah defeated ISIS, protected Lebanon's
  Christians, fought Israeli colonialism
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      Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who defended
      Lebanon's sovereignty, helped defeat ISIS and Al-Qaeda, protected
      Christians, and fought against Israeli colonialism and occupation.

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Sep 29, 2024

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Israel has assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of the 
Lebanese anti-colonialist, Islamic-nationalist movement Hezbollah.

Under Nasrallah’s leadership, Hezbollah defended Lebanon's sovereignty. 
The movement was itself born out of the resistance against Israel’s 
illegal invasion and military occupation of southern Lebanon 
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Although the US government claims Hezbollah is a so-called “terrorist” 
organization, only a small number of countries on Earth recognize it as 
such.

In fact, Hezbollah’s political arm is a registered party, and has a 
dozen representatives in Lebanon’s democratically elected parliament.

(The United States also included South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader 
Nelson Mandela on its supposed “terrorist” list until 2008 
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well after he became president of the post-apartheid country.)

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      Israel wages war on Lebanon

Israel killed large numbers of Lebanese civilians in the assassination 
of Nasrallah, flattening six high-rise buildings 
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the capital Beirut, in a US-backed operation.

Far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the attack while he 
was in New York, addressing the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

When Netanyahu was introduced at the UN, large numbers of foreign 
diplomats walked out in protest 
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There was so much pandemonium in the chamber that the UNGA president 
shouted “Order, please!” and banged a gavel 
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try to silence the protesters. Netanyahu ended up speaking to a room 
that was mostly empty.

While Netanyahu was at the UN, the Israeli regime was brutally bombing 
Lebanon, killing nearly 500 people in one day 
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Many observers have wondered what Israel’s goals are in Lebanon.

Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs 
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Amichai Chikli, made it clear in a Twitter/X post. He asserted that 
Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq are not sovereign countries, and he insisted 
that Israel should colonize southern Lebanon, just like it did 
throughout the 1980s and ‘90s.

Major Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post published an article arguing 
that Lebanon is “part of Israel’s promised territory” 
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and should therefore be colonized.

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Israel’s education minister 
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Yoav Kisch, similarly vowed on Israel’s Channel 14 that "Lebanon will be 
annihilated", and "Lebanon as we know it will not exist". (Israeli human 
rights groups have counted more than 50 times that Channel 14 has 
explicitly called for genocide against Palestinians in Gaza 
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While defending Lebanon’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, 
Hezbollah had always linked its own national-liberation struggle to that 
of the Palestinian people, refusing to compromise with Israeli 
colonialism — and the US empire that has sponsored it.

For its part, the US government has adamantly defended Israel and backed 
its war of aggression on Lebanon 
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both released 
statements praising Tel Aviv for murdering Nasrallah.

The Biden-Harris administration has sent Israel at least $18 billion in 
military aid 
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including many of the bombs and missiles that are being used to massacre 
civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

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      Hezbollah helped defeat ISIS & Al-Qaeda — while USA & Israel were
      allied with terrorists

In the past decade, Hezbollah played a key role in defeating ISIS and 
Al-Qaeda, while these extremist Salafi-jihadist death squads were de 
facto allies of the United States and Israel in their colonial war on 
Syria.

In 2012, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aide Jake Sullivan 
wrote her an email admitting, “AQ is on our side in Syria 
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While Hezbollah and its allies Syria and Iran fought against Al-Qaeda, 
the terrorist group was on Washington’s side.

(President Joe Biden would then go on to select Sullivan for the 
powerful position of US national security advisor.)

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In Lebanon, Hezbollah was also allied with many Christian groups, and 
protected them from the extremists in ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

The Christian Science Monitor noted 
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a 2013 report how, “In a Christian home in a Shiite suburb of Beirut, 
images of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah share mantel and wall space 
with the Virgin Mary”.

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from? Well, the United States — as even Amnesty International and CNN 
acknowledged 
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ISIS fascists accidentally attacked Israeli forces one time, but then 
promptly apologized to Tel Aviv.

Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon admitted in 2017 that ISIS had 
apologized to Israel 
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its hospitals, before sending them back to Syria to fight a proxy war 
against the West’s enemies, the Jerusalem Post reported in 2015.

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Hezbollah had always opposed the Salafi-jihadist fanatics in Al-Qaeda. 
This was not merely a result of the proxy war in Syria.

During Israel’s war on Lebanon in 2006, the Washington Post published an 
interview with Nasrallah 
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whom it described as “a cross between Ayatollah Khomeini and Che 
Guevera, an Islamic populist as well as a charismatic guerrilla 
tactician”. Nasrallah forcefully condemned Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 
terrorist attacks, and he emphasized that Hezbollah attacks military 
targets, not civilians.

      Hezbollah defended Christians, supported interfaith dialogue,
      distinguished between Judaism & Zionism

Given the important role Hezbollah played in defeating ISIS and 
Al-Qaeda, while defending Lebanon’s sovereignty, several prominent 
Lebanese Christian leaders issued statements 
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Nasrallah after his death.

Lebanon’s Christian ex-President Michel Aoun condemned the “Israeli 
aggression” against his country and wrote that, with the passing of his 
“honorable friend” Nasrallah, “Lebanon loses a distinguished and honest 
leader who led the national resistance on the paths of victory and 
liberation”.

Despite US-Israeli disinformation claiming that Hezbollah is 
“anti-Semitic”, the resistance movement was also careful to distinguish 
between Judaism as a religion and Zionism as a political, colonial movement.

Even the vehemently anti-Palestinian, pro-Israeli neoconservative US 
group MEMRI published a report 
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a Beirut conference in 2005 in which a Lebanese member of parliament 
from Hezbollah’s political party, Abdallah Qusseir, emphasized:

    “Hizbullah has never been against religions. Hizbullah supports all
    religions, it supports interfaith dialogue, and it has no problem
    with any religion. Hizbullah considers Zionism to be the enemy, not
    the Jews as a people or a religion”.

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/In the following video and podcast, Geopolitical Economy Report editor 
Ben Norton explains who Nasrallah really was, and dispels some of the 
myths and disinformation spread by the US government and its 
stenographers in the corporate media./

      Video

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      Podcast

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah defeated ISIS, protected Lebanon's 
Christians, fought Israeli colonialism by Geopolitical Economy Report

Geopolitical Economy Report

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      Topics

0:00 Israeli colonialism in Lebanon & Palestine

1:10 Diplomats walk out of UN to protest Netanyahu speech

1:35 Few countries claim Hezbollah is "terrorist" org

2:07 Hezbollah's political arm is in Lebanon's parliament

2:25 Lebanese Christian leaders mourn Nasrallah's death

3:38 "Terrorism" claims

4:24 Hezbollah's alliance with Christians

4:41 US/Israeli links to ISIS & Al-Qaeda

7:24 Nasrallah condemned Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, 9/11 attacks

10:21 USA supported Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan

11:38 Not anti-Semitic: distinguishing Zionism from Judaism

12:57 Zionism: Western colonialism in Palestine

15:16 Hezbollah formed to fight Israeli occupation of Lebanon

16:29 Israel assassinates political leaders, but resistance continues

18:35 Outro

© 2024 Benjamin Norton
548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104

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