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        Nasrallah, who defended Lebanon's sovereignty, helped defeat
        ISIS and Al-Qaeda, protected Christians, and fought against
        Israeli colonialism and occupation.</div>
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                        Nasrallah defeated ISIS, protected Lebanon's
                        Christians, fought Israeli colonialism</a></h1>
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                      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.</h3>
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Israel
                      has assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, the
                      secretary-general of the Lebanese
                      anti-colonialist, Islamic-nationalist movement
                      Hezbollah.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Under
                        Nasrallah’s leadership, Hezbollah defended
                        Lebanon's sovereignty. The movement was itself
                        born out of the resistance against </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/778a7217-8a81-4f11-8560-b7e2a4e39e71?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Israel’s illegal invasion
                        and military occupation of southern Lebanon</a><span>
                        in the 1980s and ‘90s.</span></p>
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href="https://substack.com/redirect/3907eac8-97d0-47d6-ba0d-87ae4c782107?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Although
                      the US government claims Hezbollah is a so-called
                      “terrorist” organization, only a small number of
                      countries on Earth recognize it as such. </p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">In
                      fact, Hezbollah’s political arm is a registered
                      party, and has a dozen representatives in
                      Lebanon’s democratically elected parliament.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>(The
                        United States also included South Africa’s
                        anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela on its
                        supposed </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/95b14305-9fd5-46b0-8c88-189b4cf3b8a8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">“terrorist” list until
                        2008</a><span> — well after he became president
                        of the post-apartheid country.)</span></p>
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style="--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2); -moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;">Israel
                      wages war on Lebanon</h3>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Israel
                        killed large numbers of Lebanese civilians in
                        the assassination of Nasrallah, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/41afadcd-3188-4d28-881b-e5343b3166f8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">flattening six high-rise
                        buildings</a><span> in the capital Beirut, in a
                        US-backed operation.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Far-right
                      Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the
                      attack while he was in New York, addressing the
                      United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>When
                        Netanyahu was introduced at the UN, large
                        numbers of </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a99c4f86-eda9-4e76-aaef-2d362c51d880?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">foreign diplomats walked
                        out in protest</a><span>. There was so much
                        pandemonium in the chamber that the UNGA
                        president shouted “Order, please!” and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a16da62a-2c0f-4528-9928-e7ed5758b418?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">banged a gavel</a><span>
                        to try to silence the protesters. Netanyahu
                        ended up speaking to a room that was mostly
                        empty.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>While
                        Netanyahu was at the UN, the Israeli regime was
                        brutally bombing Lebanon, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ff9688a7-4601-448a-8323-8c9ffc899e65?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">killing nearly 500 people
                        in one day</a><span>.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Many
                      observers have wondered what Israel’s goals are in
                      Lebanon.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f0bc3971-0eff-4061-aa2b-5348189a6bba?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Israel’s minister of
                        diaspora affairs</a><span>, 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.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Major
                        Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post published
                        an article arguing that </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/63118ad8-e1e3-4487-94c6-699a4c7bb21a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Lebanon is “part of
                        Israel’s promised territory”</a><span>, and
                        should therefore be colonized.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;">
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                                width="1003" style="text-align: center;"><a
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href="https://substack.com/redirect/b24deb5c-01ad-4a3c-9526-c9b2ec38a623?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                    </div>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/394192b3-f781-44f0-bffe-2dced1b89dc4?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Israel’s education
                        minister</a><span>, 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 </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/41685680-e41f-4c6d-80e8-e6d579175ec4?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">called for genocide
                        against Palestinians in Gaza</a><span>.)</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>For
                        its part, the US government has adamantly
                        defended Israel and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/cb4da4e0-978f-4c2f-8ad1-8ccaa9b0b0a8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">backed its war of
                        aggression on Lebanon</a><span>. </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">President
                      Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both
                      released statements praising Tel Aviv for
                      murdering Nasrallah. </p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        Biden-Harris administration has sent Israel at
                        least </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/775a394b-4723-4adc-b507-d4494fedec88?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">$18 billion in military
                        aid</a><span>, including many of the bombs and
                        missiles that are being used to massacre
                        civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;">
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                              <td align="left" class="content"
                                width="1456" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/91cba707-607a-4fb4-b915-805f8eb6d56a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0da97d04-764d-4c29-a08e-0326259afb89_2232x2224.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1451,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":207012,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}"
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                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2); -moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;">Hezbollah
                      helped defeat ISIS & Al-Qaeda — while USA
                      & Israel were allied with terrorists</h3>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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. </p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>In
                        2012, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s
                        top aide Jake Sullivan wrote her an email
                        admitting, “</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4550152d-ef44-4e81-bcb9-8bdd3d3824b1?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">AQ is on our side in
                        Syria</a><span>”. </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">While
                      Hezbollah and its allies Syria and Iran fought
                      against Al-Qaeda, the terrorist group was on
                      Washington’s side. </p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">(President
                      Joe Biden would then go on to select Sullivan for
                      the powerful position of US national security
                      advisor.)</p>
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style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;">
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                              <td align="left" class="content"
                                width="1381" style="text-align: center;"><a
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href="https://substack.com/redirect/dae9fe1b-09db-4009-b130-bafd77a698fd?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f468c850-948b-45ec-97e6-427cad16a6b4_1381x1296.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1296,"width":1381,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":137880,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}"
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                      </figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">In
                      Lebanon, Hezbollah was also allied with many
                      Christian groups, and protected them from the
                      extremists in ISIS and Al-Qaeda.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                      </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5c05a55b-057d-455a-9d91-9e422811cbf5?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Christian Science Monitor
                        noted</a><span> in 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”.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;">
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                              </td>
                              <td align="left" class="content"
                                width="1380" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/293a0e85-508e-4326-be27-a0d599facd3e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                      </figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Meanwhile,
                        where did the genocidal fascists in ISIS get
                        their weapons from? Well, the United States — as
                        even Amnesty International and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/be67b923-9f0a-4d27-a923-92b752d5ee9f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">CNN acknowledged</a><span>.</span></p>
                    <div class="captioned-image-container-static"
style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;">
                      <figure style="margin: 0 auto; width: 100%;">
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                              <td style="text-align: center;"><br>
                              </td>
                              <td align="left" class="content"
                                width="996" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/22e78fb4-63c9-4a11-ade3-9723a4c0b72a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e89d90e1-3e92-4471-80f8-82e2c93eb8ab_996x415.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":415,"width":996,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":272138,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}"
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                          </tbody>
                        </table>
                      </figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">ISIS
                      fascists accidentally attacked Israeli forces one
                      time, but then promptly apologized to Tel Aviv.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Former
                        defense minister Moshe Ya’alon admitted in 2017
                        that </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/24476144-f135-4c57-8eff-1e10bc88e370?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">ISIS had apologized to
                        Israel</a><span>.</span></p>
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                                width="1113" style="text-align: center;"><a
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a3ea8bf4-fd47-4468-b988-1a2dfaec0b5f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Israel also treated
                        wounded Al-Qaeda fascists</a><span> in its
                        hospitals, before sending them back to Syria to
                        fight a proxy war against the West’s enemies,
                        the Jerusalem Post reported in 2015.</span></p>
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                                width="1008" style="text-align: center;"><a
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Hezbollah
                      had always opposed the Salafi-jihadist fanatics in
                      Al-Qaeda. This was not merely a result of the
                      proxy war in Syria.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>During
                        Israel’s war on Lebanon in 2006, the Washington
                        Post published an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/078753df-acd6-47be-8ff9-cb816327319d?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">interview with Nasrallah</a><span>,
                        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.</span></p>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2); -moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;">Hezbollah
                      defended Christians, supported interfaith
                      dialogue, distinguished between Judaism &
                      Zionism</h3>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Given
                        the important role Hezbollah played in defeating
                        ISIS and Al-Qaeda, while defending Lebanon’s
                        sovereignty, several prominent </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6544f289-6bd9-479c-8979-1ae34047c65c?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Lebanese Christian
                        leaders issued statements</a><span> honoring
                        Nasrallah after his death. </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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”.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">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.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Even
                        the vehemently anti-Palestinian, pro-Israeli
                        neoconservative US group </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9d20bed3-fb60-42fd-8c75-6022a5886bba?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">MEMRI published a report</a><span>
                        on a Beirut conference in 2005 in which a
                        Lebanese member of parliament from Hezbollah’s
                        political party, Abdallah Qusseir, emphasized:</span></p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">“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”.</p>
                    </blockquote>
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><em>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.</em></p>
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style="--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2); -moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;">Video</h3>
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                    <a class="audio-embed-static-outer"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/bed0e851-ac86-4a36-9299-49570da7be49?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0 0 2px;">Hezbollah
                                leader Nasrallah defeated ISIS,
                                protected Lebanon's Christians, fought
                                Israeli colonialism by Geopolitical
                                Economy Report</p>
                              <p class="subtitle"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; margin: 0 0 2px;">Geopolitical
                                Economy Report</p>
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style="--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2); -moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;">Topics</h3>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">0:00
                      Israeli colonialism in Lebanon & Palestine</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">1:10
                      Diplomats walk out of UN to protest Netanyahu
                      speech</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">1:35
                      Few countries claim Hezbollah is "terrorist" org</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">2:07
                      Hezbollah's political arm is in Lebanon's
                      parliament</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">2:25
                      Lebanese Christian leaders mourn Nasrallah's death</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">3:38
                      "Terrorism" claims</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">4:24
                      Hezbollah's alliance with Christians</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">4:41
                      US/Israeli links to ISIS & Al-Qaeda</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">7:24
                      Nasrallah condemned Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, 9/11
                      attacks</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">10:21
                      USA supported Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan</p>
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                      Not anti-Semitic: distinguishing Zionism from
                      Judaism</p>
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                      Zionism: Western colonialism in Palestine</p>
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                      Hezbollah formed to fight Israeli occupation of
                      Lebanon</p>
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                      Israel assassinates political leaders, but
                      resistance continues</p>
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                      Outro</p>
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