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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Dying in defense of Assad
2016-06-30
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hezbollah is free to choose the parliamentary electoral law it likes and it's free to participate in the government or boycott it. There are no restraints imposed on it when it comes to following the domestic policies governed by the constitution and law. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
Hezbollah, and even if some of those affiliated with it agree, must not intervene in another country and get involved in a war that has absolutely nothing to do with us. To justify its intervention, it has resorted to the excuse of "deterring terrorists." However this excuse just serves the purpose of throwing dust in the eyes as we can actually fortify our borders and prevent those who threaten our security from infiltrating our borders. Cooperation and coordination with security forces will also help arrest murderous Moslems and even execute them if they harm Leb.

The reason I bring this up is reports that at least 25 Hezbollah fighters have died in the past two days in different areas across Syria and that some Lebanese families have lost contact with their sons - also Hezbollah fighters - there. These members were not killed and did not go missing because they were serving higher aims or a national cause as they were only present in Syria to serve foreign interests linked to Iran's will to preserve the Syrian regime. What will Hezbollah's officials tell the families of the members killed? What will they tell them they died for? To defend Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
? Or the Syrian regime which is slaughtering its own sons? They died while confronting who? Confronting the Syrian people who want to change their regime?

What's being committed against the Lebanese people is a crime. We pity these fighters' mothers, wives and children because we've experienced this pain, injustice and grief that deeply wound the heart. We don't want this massacre against Lebanese people who accepted to hand over their decision-making to their leaders to go on. This same category of Lebanese people has been exploited for decades using different slogans.

We do not want our sons to die in defense of Assad or of any other man. We do not want Leb to keep paying the price of other parties' wars on its territories and in the case of the Syrian war, in other territories. Leb's young men and women should be able to live and live long.
Posted by:Fred

#1  This article makes sense from the Saudi perspective (it's Alarabiya after all) of wanting to persuade Lebanese that obeying Iran is not in Lebanon's interest. But most Shia in that region need Iranian support (what would Hezbollah have without Iran?) and also feel a very natural allegiance like Canada and Australia naturally helping the UK when Hitler attacked. One hope is that the number of Sunni refugees currently in Lebanon will help swing the power balance away from Hezbollah. A power shift is unlikely to happen solely as a result of internal Shia dissent without other major causes.
Posted by: Odysseus   2016-06-30 13:13  

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