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WASHINGTON – Despite repeated Western worries Hezbollah, along with its sponsor, Iran, seeks Israel’s destruction, a little-noticed recent comment by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah suggests otherwise, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
“If there is now a consensus in Israel on this characterization of the resistance in Lebanon, does it mean that Hezbollah is opening a front and wants to eliminate Israel from existence?” Nasrallah asked in a Feb. 16 speech. “The reality now is not so.”
The notion likely isn’t limited just to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah.
Iran also may be sending that public signal, given its influence over its Lebanese proxy, analysts believe.
Nasrallah’s statement shows that his group will maintain a line of resistance to neighboring Israel but won’t be threatening its existence.
The shift doesn’t necessarily mean threats involving the protection of Lebanon have vanished, but as one Middle East observer suggested to G2Bulletin, it could mean that Hezbollah has no intention of initiating any action along the Lebanese and Syrian border areas.
Get the rest of this report, and more, at Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
This observer said that Hezbollah has its hands full resisting the Islamic State while backing the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. In so doing, it has taken on major casualties, costing the resistance group serious fighter casualties at great expense.
Hezbollah and Iran both telegraphed this new, more pragmatic approach following what is now believed to have been the killing by the Israeli Defense Forces of the Lebanese Druze Samir Kuntar last December in Jaramana, south of Damascus, Syria.
The IDF allegedly hit him with air-to-ground missiles fired from its warplanes, which possibly were just outside Syria, onto a building, collapsing it and killing all inside, including Kuntar.
The killing of Kuntar, who was a close operative of Hezbollah and Iran, then raised concern on what the response would be from them.
Where a quick reaction from artillery fire back into Israel would have been expected from Hezbollah, there was none.
A year earlier, there was similar concern after Israel on Jan. 18, 2015, launched an airstrike in Quneitra in the Syrian Golan Heights, killing six Hezbollah members and a general of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Get the rest of this report, and more, at Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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