What Hizbullah Represents: Lebanese National Interests or Iranian Regime’s Interests?

What does Hezbollah represent? Does it represent Lebanese national interests or is it just another proxy of Iran? The answer is the latter.

Hezbollah seeks to impose a radical Islamic expansionist state on Lebanon that’s modelled after Iran. Hezbollah views Iran as its model. What Lebanese national interest would be gained by having subversive cells in Egypt? What “occupation” is Hezbollah resisting? The answer is none. Hezbollah attempted to overthrow the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak and sought to turn Egypt into a radical Islamic proxy state of Iran. It just showed more about the threat that Iran poses to the Arab world. Egypt unveiled the network in 2009 and became more aware of the threat posed by Iran.

In Latin America, Hezbollah is the front for Iran’s influence. Hezbollah and Iran helps to spread radical Islamic influence in Latin America. Hezbollah forms close ties with criminal drug gangs in Latin America including the drug cartels and is involved in drug trafficking. What Lebanese interest is served by that? What “occupation” was Hezbollah “resisting”? I’ll tell you. None.

Here’s more evidence to add that Hezbollah is not a national Lebanese movement that just resists occupations there. Hezbollah was also a vital network for Syria’s occupation there. Syria invaded Lebanon in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war. Syria had a brutal occupation of Lebanon until 2005. Hezbollah, which was created by Iran in 1982, even helped the Syrian occupiers. Syria provides material support to Hezbollah. So when Syria occupied Lebanon and only allowed their puppets in the Lebanese government, Hezbollah was a proxy of Syria. In 2005, Syria carried out the assassination of then-Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafiq Hariri, who called on Syria to withdraw from Lebanon.  Hezbollah was an accomplice in that assassination attempt. What Lebanese national interests does that represent?

Also, Israel didn’t just come into Lebanon for the sake of it. Israel entered South Lebanon in 1978 to drive the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization] out of Southern Lebanon. The PLO used South Lebanon as a base for terror attacks against Israel. Those terror attacks included rocket attacks on northern Israel. Many Israelis hid in bomb shelters because of the constant rocket attacks.

Because of the continuation of those terror attacks, in 1982, Israel entered the rest of Lebanon. The goal was to drive the PLO out of the rest of Lebanon. With the war declared on Lebanon’s Christian population, Lebanese Christian freedom fighters appealed to Israel for help. Israel, understanding that she was the victim of the same genocidal forces as the Lebanese Christians were, gave aid to the Lebanese Christians and supported the Christian militias.

Israel sought to turn Lebanon back to the democracy it was before 1975 when the civil war started. Israel sought to turn Lebanon into a state that would be at peace with Israel.

Israel, though hoping not to come into contact with Syrian forces, ended up fighting them.

Many people want to “remind” people that Hezbollah was created in 1982, as a response to the Israeli “invasion” of  Lebanon. It’s a half truth. True, Hezbollah was created in 1982 after the Israelis invaded Lebanon. But to say that it was a response is not totally accurate. Hezbollah was created by Iran to destroy Israel and to turn Lebanon into a proxy state of Iran.

Hezbollah launched terror attacks on innocent Israeli civilians, carried out airplane hijackings, killed the most Americans before 9/11, killed many westerners and attacked the US peacekeepers in Lebanon, who were backed by the UN and came to keep the peace in Lebanon after Israel entered that country. Those attacks included the bombing of the US Marine Barracks. What Lebanese national interests were served by airplane hijackings and bombings of the US marine barracks? Unlike Syria, the US wanted to keep the peace there.

In fact, Hezbollah’s terrorism was what kept Israel in southern Lebanon. Israel left most of Lebanon in 1983, after the US peacekeepers evacuated the PLO out of Lebanon. One group of genocidal anti-Israel barbarians leave. Another group comes in.

Israel stayed in southern Lebanon to maintain a security zone and to prevent Hezbollah from attacking Israel. There were still Hezbollah attacks anyway. In 2000, Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon. Yet Hezbollah escalated its terror campaign, even using Southern Lebanon as a base for terrorism on Israel. Israel’s withdrawal boosted Hezbollah’s morale. To Iran, its proxy Hezbollah and the rest of the radical Islamic movement, it showed “weakness” from Israel. Hezbollah claimed that Israel left because the Hezbollah “resistance” “forced” Israel to leave.

In 1985, Hezbollah made its goal of Israel’s destruction and its opposition to any peace with Israel clear:

Our primary assumption in our fight against Israel states that the Zionist entity is aggressive from its inception, and built on lands wrested from their owners, at the expense of the rights of the Muslim people. Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease fire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated.

We vigorously condemn all plans for negotiation with Israel, and regard all negotiators as enemies, for the reason that such negotiation is nothing but the recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Therefore we oppose and reject the Camp David Agreements, the proposals of King Fahd, the Fez and Reagan plan, Brezhnev’s and the French-Egyptian proposals, and all other programs that include the recognition (even the implied recognition) of the Zionist entity.

Some have claimed that Hezbollah is just fighting for the Sheeba farms. The sheeba farms is an area in the Golan Heights and was not part of Lebanon. Both Israel and the UN agree on those facts. Plus, the chief spokesman for Hezbollah Hassan Ezzeddin confessed that even if Israel did give up the Sheeba farms to Lebanon, Hezbollah would still fight to destroy the state of Israel. The New Yorker reports that:

[Chief Hezbollah spokesperson Hassan] Ezzeddin seemed to concede that the Hezbollah campaign to rid Shebaa of Israeli troops is a pretext for something larger. “If they go from Shebaa, we will not stop fighting them,” he told me. “Our goal is to liberate the 1948 borders of Palestine,” he added, referring to the year of Israel’s founding. The Jews who survive this war of liberation, Ezzeddin said, “can go back to Germany, or wherever they came from.”

Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said,”If all the Jews gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide”. He also said,”If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli”.  As you can see from these quotes, Nasrallah has the same view on the Jews that Hitler had. Like Hitler, Nasrallah wants all Jews dead. The Hezbollah TV station Al Manur had the nerve to equate Bush [back when he was President] with Hitler. But Hezbollah is a Nazi-like group, where its leader Nasrallah has the same view of Jews that Hitler had. Nasrallah, unlike anti-Israel propagandists, makes no “distinction” between Jews on the one hand and “Zionists”, Israel or Israeli on the other hand. He doesn’t even dress his anti-Semitism as criticism of Israel. As seen from the above quote, Nasrallah makes it clear that he means Jews and not just Israelis. What Lebanese national interests were served there?

The evidence shows that Hezbollah provokes Israel. During its wars with Israel, Hezbollah hides in residential areas to put more innocent civilians in danger. The idea is to either deter Israel from attacking, since innocent civilians will accidentally get killed, or if Israel does attack, to use the killing of innocent Lebanese civilians as propaganda against Israel. That was Hezbollah’s tactic in its fights with Israel, including [but not only] the second Lebanon war.

The second Lebanon war was started by Hezbollah. Hezbollah kidnapped IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers. Hezbollah also launched rocket at northern Israel.

Israel attempted to rescue the soldiers. But in response to the rocket attacks, Israel bombed Hezbollah’s infrastructure. Since Hezbollah hid in residential areas including schools and mosques, civilians were accidently killed by Israel’s strikes. Hezbollah also shot Christians fleeing the town of Rmeish. Why? Because Hezbollah wanted to hide their infrastructure among them. Hezbollah hid their terrorist infrastructure in their town. The residents didn’t want to be caught in the middle of the war between Israel and Hezbollah. So what does Hezbollah do? Shoot the fleeing residents. A cease fire was reached. During that war, what Lebanese national interests were served? None.

Hezbollah provoking Israel and hiding among civilians does not help Lebanon one bit. Hezbollah is turning Lebanon into a bloody battleground.

During the war, Jihadist books used by Hezbollah were found. Those books were based on the Jihadist worldview of Iran and its proxy Hezbollah. One of those books found was Al-Jihad, which is based on the worldview of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. 

Hezbollah also trains Iranian proxies in Iraq to fight the US-led coalition and to help turn Iraq into a radical Islamic state. The 9/11 commission report found that Iran and its proxy Hezbollah even trained Al Qaeda. What Lebanese national interests were served there? None.

Hezbollah is not fighting for Lebanon. Hezbollah is fighting to turn Lebanon into a proxy state of Iran and to spread Khomeini’s brand of radical Islam throughout the world. Hezbollah said:

But world opinion should know that Islamic conquest is not the same as conquests by
other rulers of the world…. [Non‐Islamic] conquerors want to rule the world so that they
can spread through it every injustice and sexual indecency, whereas Islam wants to
conquer the world in order to promote spiritual values, and to prepare mankind for
justice and Divine rule.

Hezbollah is a proxy group for Iran and helps to spread Iran’s influence globally. Hezbollah seeks to radically change the Lebanese state and to impose Valayet-e-Faqih, the system imposed by Khomeini on Iran, there. Under the state Hezbollah fights for, non-Muslims including the Lebanese Christians would be persecuted and women would be second-class citizens. Hezbollah seeks to spread Khomeinist Islamism to Lebanon.

Hezbollah is not a popular movement in Lebanon. The majority of Christians and Sunnis [excluding Michael Aoun and the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood] oppose Hezbollah. Even many Shiites oppose Hezbollah. Many Lebanese spoke up against Hezbollah and stated that then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was better than Nasrallah.

Some Lebanese believe that Hezbollah was a liberation movement until 2000 when Israel withdrew. They see no reason for Hezbollah to continue the struggle. Even they should know that Hezbollah committed terror attacks before and after the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Furthermore, Hezbollah was founded to destroy Israel. That was their goal since 1982. Their 1985 program made their goal of destroying Israel clear. It was because of Hezbollah terrorism that Israel stayed in southern Lebanon and to create a security zone there. Hezbollah has a lot of control in southern Lebanon.

In the June 7 Parliamentary elections, Hezbollah lost. During the election campaigns, the JCPA [Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs] even had an article that reported on a Hezbollah program to radically change Lebanon. Hezbollah is an unpopular terrorist movement in Lebanon. It is not fighting for Lebanese national interests. It is fighting for the Jihadist fascism and is a big-time proxy of Iran. In America, Hezbollah is even involved in drug trafficking. Iran and its proxy Hezbollah form alliances with anti-American dictators such as Hugo Chavez.

Hezbollah forms close ties with criminal drug gangs in Latin America. In Latin America, Hezbollah is a primary force fighting for Iranian influence there. When it comes to Iraq, Hezbollah trains Iranian proxy groups, which seek to disrupt the democratic process in Iraq that was instituted by the US-led liberators. Hezbollah opposes the Lebanese secular state and seeks to have an Iranian takeover of Lebanon and provokes Israel with its terrorist aggression. Hezbollah is another instrument of the Iranian regime to wreck havoc. It opposes the aspirations of the Lebanese people to go back to the golden days when Beirut was called the “Paris of the Middle East”. Thanks to groups like Hezbollah, Lebanon, instead of being seen as the most [or a] westernized Arab state as it was before the civil war started in 1975, is seen as a battleground in the Middle East conflict. Hezbollah is not a Lebanese national movement. It is a terrorist proxy group of Tehran. Hezbollah also served as a proxy to the Syrian occupiers in Lebanon as well.