Hezbollah Commits to Full Fight To Keep Assad in Power in Syria

[newarkhiphop]

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The leader of the powerful Lebanese militant group Hezbollah decisively committed his followers on Saturday to an all-out battle in Syria to salvage the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. He said the organization, founded to defend Lebanon and fight Israel, was entering “a completely new phase,” sending its troops abroad to protect its interests.
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“It is our battle, and we are up to it,” the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, declared, in his most direct embrace yet of a fight in Syria that Hezbollah can no longer hide, now that dozens of its fighters have fallen in and around the strategic Syrian town of Qusayr. Outgunned Syrian rebels have held on for a week there against a frontal assault by Hezbollah and Syrian forces.

The speech signaled a significant escalation in Hezbollah’s military involvement in Syria, enmeshing the group more deeply in the war across the border. It could put new pressure on the Obama administration and on Europe, where more countries have begun pushing to list the group as a terrorist organization as the United States does. It was also likely to further inflame tensions in Lebanon, where Syria’s civil war has spilled over into sectarian violence.

Mr. Nasrallah, a shrewd political operator, appears to be calculating that the West, thrown off balance by the rise of jihadist factions among the Syrian rebels, will not jump in. His confidence showed that he had little fear of the United States’ call for a political solution while allowing Saudi Arabia and Qatar to arm the rebels. Instead, Mr. Assad can head into negotiations planned for next month with a stronger hand, while the Syrian opposition is as divided and disorganized as ever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/w...p-up-raids-on-rebels.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


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[Broke Wave]

Good for them... I hope Israel crushes them soon. Hezbollah is Iran's puppet, and anybody who's a puppet of that awful regime is just as bad as anyone who would be a puppet of Israel or the West. Assad's clock is ticking.

 

[zerozero]

I hope Israel crushes them soon.

Unlike the last bunch of times they tried? Come on breh there are no "good" actors on any side of this fight

 

[Broke Wave]

Unlike the last bunch of times they tried? Come on breh there are no "good" actors on any side of this fight

The enemy of my enemy is my friend... anyone who bombs peaceful protests and kills tens of thousands of innocents is my enemy. Good or bad is subjective but sometimes we have to make these decisions based on the moral climate created by either actor.

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[88m3]

Hizbullah free Lebanon coming soon








EU is about to declare them a terrorist organization. On our way to the end game, gentlemen.

 

[newworldafro]

So whose the good guys???? Just want to keep my facts straight ....

Syrian Rebels Massacre Christian Village

 

[thekingsmen]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend... anyone who bombs peaceful protests and kills tens of thousands of innocents is my enemy. Good or bad is subjective but sometimes we have to make these decisions based on the moral climate created by either actor.

I think you are confusing peaceful protests that were small in percentage and who was shooting back at police and army. But since those who kill thousands of innocents are your enemy...is the U.S. your enemy for killing over 1 Million Iraqis, killing thousands of Afghans? What about the thousands of Lebanese that were killed by Israel during their bombing? What about the 1500 People who died in Israel's attack on Palestinians in Operation Cast Lead? What about the almost 7 Million in the Congo? What about the 60,000 in Mexico...?

 

[thekingsmen]

So whose the good guys???? Just want to keep my facts straight ....

Syrian Rebels Massacre Christian Village

Word they won't speak on that...they scared.

 

[Broke Wave]

I think you are confusing peaceful protests that were small in percentage and who was shooting back at police and army. But since those who kill thousands of innocents are your enemy...is the U.S. your enemy for killing over 1 Million Iraqis, killing thousands of Afghans? What about the thousands of Lebanese that were killed by Israel during their bombing? What about the 1500 People who died in Israel's attack on Palestinians in Operation Cast Lead? What about the almost 7 Million in the Congo? What about the 60,000 in Mexico...?

only thekingsmen would be anti-american governments, and say that the protesters were shooting back at police and army according to the Assad gov. Since when do you listen to the official story of governments? Especially totally undemocratic ones? As far as the rest of your rhetorical questions, I don't know what they have to do with my statement, but if you think I'm a supporter of U.S. Foreign Policy, a Neo-Con, or even passive Zionist, you have not read more than the post you have quoted, breh. Lets re-read like kids who fail book reports, friend

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

Good for them... I hope Israel crushes them soon. Hezbollah is Iran's puppet, and anybody who's a puppet of that awful regime is just as bad as anyone who would be a puppet of Israel or the West. Assad's clock is ticking.

ISRAEL AND THE LITANI RIVER

Because of current Israeli utilization of all its renewable water resources and the predicted annual water deficit of 500 to 600 million cubic meters, Israeli occupation of the water-rich area in southern Lebanon raises questions about Israel's hydrological imperative. Israel has had historical interest in the Litani River, whose entire flow is within the borders of Lebanon. The river rises in the northern Biqa'a Valley and runs southward to Beaufort Castle, where it turns westward to the Mediterranean Sea. Diverting the Litani's water southward is an old proposal, first suggested in 1905 by an engineer who concluded that the waters of the Jordan basin would be insufficient for the future needs of Palestine (Saleh 1988). He recommended that waters from the Litani River be diverted into the Hasbani River, a tributary of the Jordan.

Prestatehood Jewish interests in the Litani River were made explicit in letters from Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization (wzo), to various British governmental officials in 1919 and 1920 (Weisgal 1977). In a letter to Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Weizmann argued that Lebanon was "well watered" and that the river was "valueless to the territory north of the proposed frontiers. They can be used beneficially in the country much further south." Weizmann concluded that the WZO considered the Litani valley "for a distance of 25 miles above the bend" of the river essential to the future of the Jewish "national home" (Weisgal 1977, 267). Nevertheless, the British and the French mandate powers retained the Litani basin entirely in Lebanon. David Ben-Gurion, a leading Zionist and the first prime minister of Israel, suggested to a 1941 international commission on the question of Palestine that the Litani be included in the borders of the future Jewish state. The commission recommended that seven-eighths of the river's waters be leased to Israel (Saleh 1988).

Access to the Litani River was a concern during Israel's formative years. The diaries of Moshe Sharett, an Israeli prime minister during the mid-1950s, reveal that Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan, chief of staff and defense minister, were strong advocates of Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon to the Litani River (Rabinovich 1985). In the wake of the 1967 war and in view of Israeli territorial gains from three of its four neighbors, Dayan reiterated his long-standing opinion that Israel had achieved "provisionally satisfying frontiers, with the exception of those with Lebanon" (Hof 1985, 36).

Decision makers who perceive scarcities in their own state will meet demands by using their specialized capabilities to control territory and people farther and farther from its boundaries (Choucri and North 1972, 90). Specialized capabilities, including political influence, economic performance, and military skill and hardware, tend to determine the type of peaceful or coercive pressure that a resource-deficient but capability-rich state can apply to improve its access to foreign resources. Israel's water scarcity is leading to high-risk strategies that it can use with confidence because its military, economic, and political capabilities are superior to those of Lebanon.

The hyrdostrategic significance of southern Lebanon is rarely considered as an explanation of current Israeli occupation of the security zone there. The zone stretches along the northern border of Israel and straddles the westward bend of the Litani River. Israel unilaterally established the zone in 1978, after Israeli troops invaded and remained as a hegemonic occupier. Although there are between one and two thousand Israeli troops in the zone, it is controlled and administered by a Christian Lebanese army general who heads the South Lebanese Army (SLA). Trained, equipped, and paid by the Israeli government, the SLA is nonetheless a quasi-militia, composed of Lebanese. The zone has 850 square kilometers, with 85 villages and a population of approximately 180,000.

Shortly after establishing the zone, the Israeli army prohibited drilling of wells there (al-Bargouthi 1986). Moreover, after the 1982 invasion, Israeli army engineers carried out seismic soundings and surveys near the westward bend of the river, probably to determine the optimum place for a diversion tunnel, and confiscated hydrographical charts and technical documents of the river and its installations from the Litani Water Authority offices in the Biqa'a and Beirut (Cooley 1984, 22). Israel also controlled most or all of the waters from the Hasbani and Wazzani rivers, which rise in Lebanon. Over the years, there have been reports of water siphoning from the Litani into the Jordan River basin, a distance of less than ten kilometers (Cooley 1984; al-Bargouthi 1986; Saleh 1988; Abu Fadil and Harrison 1992; Gemayel 1992).

The average annual flow of the Litani River is estimated at 920 million cubic meters, of which an estimated 480 million cubic meters is measured at the Khardali Bridge near the westward bend of the stream. Before the river empties into the Mediterranean Sea, an estimated 125 million cubic meters of water is consumed in the Kasmieh irrigation project. Permanent occupation of southern Lebanon and continued access to the Litani could augment the annual water supply of Israel by up to 800 million cubic meters, or approximately 40 percent of its current annual water consumption. This volume is attainable only if Israel reoccupies the Karaoun Dam, as it did between 1982 and 1985, and if the zone's subterranean springs, aquifers, and the Wazzani water flow are included (Baalbaki and Mahfouth 1985; Al-Nahar 1986). The Karaoun reservoir has a storage capacity of 220 million cubic meters, which is used for irrigation, domestic and industrial water supply, and hydropower. Furthermore, the largest single withdrawal from the Litani is the diversion of 236 million cubic meters annually through the Markaba tunnel to the Awali River for hydroelectric generation to supply Beirut and other coastal areas. In fact, 35 percent of Lebanon's total production of electricity comes from the Litani waters directly or from the Markaba-Awali diversion.

Another attraction of the Litani River is the high quality of its water. The salinity level is only 20 parts per million, whereas that of the Sea of Galilee is 250 to 350 parts per million. Many aquifers in Israel are stressed, especially along the coast, and the water in them is increasingly brackish. The water of the Litani would lower the saline level of the Sea of Galilee, from which the National Water Carrier channels water to much of the country. "It is this purity that makes the Litani very attractive to the Israelis, who have developed their National Water Carrier System with a view towards potable (as opposed to irrigation quality) water" (Naff and Matson 1984, 65).

Water production by desalination is costly, and cloud seeding to induce precipitation is not always controllable. Turkey proposed a peace pipeline to meet the needs of numerous southern water-deficient countries, including Israel, but importation over hundreds of kilometers of unfriendly territory is seen in Israel as untenable and easily subverted, thus a threat to national security. It is therefore becoming increasingly evident that the only feasible solution, in terms of water quality, volume, and proximity of the resource, to Israel's growing water problem is to tap a nearby source, namely the Litani River.

No one can yet document categorically that the Litani waters are being diverted, because large tracts of land near the crucial westward bend of the river are cordoned off by Israeli troops, which prevents researchers, journalists, and United Nations observers from approaching the area (al-Bar-gouthi 1986; Al-Nahar 1990). Independent water analysts, however, have reported that Israel has been diverting some water from the Litani River into the Jordan River (Collelo 1989, 117) by tapping the massive underground water resources. Hence the measured flow of the Litani is not affected (Cooley 1984, 22-23).

The weak post-civil-war Lebanese government and Israel's continued occupation of the security zone make it difficult to prevent an Israeli role in the use of Litani waters. This could be accomplished either through a unilateral water-diversion scheme, which appears to be the solution now, or through bilateral negotiations, in which the security zone would be used as a bargaining pawn to reach a water-sharing agreement with Lebanon (Amery and Kubursi 1992a).

THE LITANI RIVER OF LEBANON

so yeah, let's cheer for the removal of the only deterrent preventing the colonization of south Lebanon so thousands of Russian and Brooklynite psychopaths can move in and terrorize my grandparents and nieces.

breh, I love you like an akh but I'd smack the ever-loving jinn out of you if you said this to me IRL.

 

[Broke Wave]

THE LITANI RIVER OF LEBANON

so yeah, let's cheer for the removal of the only deterrent preventing the colonization of south Lebanon so thousands of Russian and Brooklynite psychopaths can move in and terrorize my grandparents and nieces.

breh, I love you like an akh but I'd smack the ever-loving jinn out of you if you said this to me IRL.

LOL man I totally understand where you're coming from and your perspective. I think that Israel is a terrorist state and all the shyt they do is utter bullshyt, but if you think Hezbollah gives a quarter fukk about south Lebanon or Lebanese sovereignty, you are severely mistaken.





Akhi, you gotta realize that Iran + Hezbollah are actually Israel's LAP DOGS and best friends. They have always been in cahoots with each other, it is very deep but has to do with the Shia extremism in Iran and their ideology spilling into policy. Maybe it's too late at night to get into this but I can and will prove this, I am not trolling, I believe this with all my heart.

 

[alybaba]

LOL man I totally understand where you're coming from and your perspective. I think that Israel is a terrorist state and all the shyt they do is utter bullshyt, but if you think Hezbollah gives a quarter fukk about south Lebanon or Lebanese sovereignty, you are severely mistaken.

Hizbullah are Isreali border guards - YouTube

Hizbullat will disclose its alliance with Israel - YouTube

Akhi, you gotta realize that Iran + Hezbollah are actually Israel's LAP DOGS and best friends. They have always been in cahoots with each other, it is very deep but has to do with the Shia extremism in Iran and their ideology spilling into policy. Maybe it's too late at night to get into this but I can and will prove this, I am not trolling, I believe this with all my heart.

The Saudis and the Israelis are aligned against Syria, Iran and Shias, not the other way around bro.

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

LOL man I totally understand where you're coming from and your perspective. I think that Israel is a terrorist state and all the shyt they do is utter bullshyt, but if you think Hezbollah gives a quarter fukk about south Lebanon or Lebanese sovereignty, you are severely mistaken.

Hizbullah are Isreali border guards - YouTube

Hizbullat will disclose its alliance with Israel - YouTube

Akhi, you gotta realize that Iran + Hezbollah are actually Israel's LAP DOGS and best friends. They have always been in cahoots with each other, it is very deep but has to do with the Shia extremism in Iran and their ideology spilling into policy. Maybe it's too late at night to get into this but I can and will prove this, I am not trolling, I believe this with all my heart.

I heard enough.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKdudzxfxk"]2Pac - Let's Fight [/ame]

 

[thekingsmen]

only thekingsmen would be anti-american governments, and say that the protesters were shooting back at police and army according to the Assad gov. Since when do you listen to the official story of governments? Especially totally undemocratic ones? As far as the rest of your rhetorical questions, I don't know what they have to do with my statement, but if you think I'm a supporter of U.S. Foreign Policy, a Neo-Con, or even passive Zionist, you have not read more than the post you have quoted, breh. Lets re-read like kids who fail book reports, friend

I pulled your card and . Anti-American b/c you couldn't answer the questions?

1. Can you tell me what they were protesting about?

2. Who is a democracy? Last time I checked U.S. is a Republic

3. "anyone who bombs peaceful protests and kills tens of thousands of innocents is my enemy" why are you picking your enemy based off political stances when you just mentioned this? Killing ten of thousands of people being your enemy...shyt you must have enemies all around the world...including here.

4. I didn't mention if you are Zionist, Neo-Con, etc( which I think you are confessing to.)Your lack of knowledge on history shows in your ignorant comments. I didn't fail book reports..I was nice with those. You pick and choose who you want as your enemy which shows your blind support for murder and massacres anywhere for those who are your friends.

5. Time to read up on Syria and U.S. involvement in Syria...but you won't it's not in your interest to do so.