Qassem Says Israeli Raid in Quneitra 'Direct' Assault against Hizbullah
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Hizbullah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem stressed on Sunday that the Israeli airstrike in Syria's Quneitra is a direct assault against the party.
“There are huge similarities between the Israelis and the takfiri groups,” Qassem said during a popular rally to mourn the party fighters who were killed the raid last week.
The Hizbullah official revealed that information obtained by the party indicates “that the assault on the convoy is direct and targets Hizbullah.”
“It's an Israeli attempt to establish a new formula in the conflict with the (Jewish state), which is responsible for the crisis in Syria,” he remarked.
Qassem noted that Hizbullah “contributed in thwarting a project set for establishing a new Middle East.”
The high-ranking official said that “the Israeli aggression led to a series of results, at the forefront the popular support for Hizbullah.”
Qassem reiterated that Hizbullah General Secretary Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will announce the party's official stance from the raid that killed a high-ranking Iranian military official, a prominent Hizbullah member and five others.
Israel and Hizbullah are bitter enemies and fought a bloody month-long war in the summer of 2006.
Among the dead in the airstrike was Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Imad Mughniyeh — a top Hizbullah operative who was assassinated in 2008 in Damascus in a bombing that the party blamed on Israel.
Since Syria's civil war began in March 2011, Israel has reportedly carried out several airstrikes in Syria that have targeted sophisticated weapons systems, including Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles and Iranian-made missiles, believed to be destined for Hizbullah.
Nasrallah recently said Hizbullah reserves the right to retaliate for those attacks. He also reiterated that the party may retaliate at any time for the assassination of the elder Mughniyeh.
25 January 2015, 12:20
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Qassem Says Israeli Raid in Quneitra 'Direct' Assault against Hizbullah
No Duh.... ;)
25 January 2015, 12:35
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dude, is repeating that lame one-liner on all articles what you do all day? you're either extremely frustrated or very obsessive. either way you should seek help
25 January 2015, 12:53
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Tomorrow you will wake up same as today with one neuron. I pity you.
25 January 2015, 12:22
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Ebola went to Syria by its own decision and brought us inside Lebanon all the diseases.
25 January 2015, 12:40
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Similarities are between Israelis and Ebola. Same diseases. Same dictatorships. Same terroristic ways.
25 January 2015, 13:12
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"It's an Israeli attempt to establish a new formula in the conflict with the (Jewish state), which is responsible for the crisis in Syria"
I guess it is Israel that arrested the children in Daraa in 2011 and tortured them and it is Israel that shot at the peaceful protestors througout Syria.
It is Israel that killed 200,000 people in Syria, not the Assad Regime, Al Nusral, Hezbollah and ISIL.
To be fair to Qassem and Hezbollah, extremism arrived in our part of the world in 1948 with Zionist policy of ethnic cleansing.
Zionism is a European import inspired by messianic nationalism that wrecked havoc in the Arab world.
And both Jihadi Islamism and Khomeinism were encouraged by the US against communism.
Moreover, the US destroyed the backbone of the Arab world, Iraq, in order to destroy Arab nationalism and divide the Arab world into sectarian entities resembling Israel.
Look at the disaster today: the monsters of Zionism, Khomeinism and Islamic Jihadism rule.
25 January 2015, 13:19
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In a nutshell, ya Iran, Israel, Assad regime, Nusra, Hezbollah, ISIL "ziho aan sama rabna"!
Let us live and work in freedom and peace for a better tomorrow for our children.
25 January 2015, 16:24
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Well spoken Mr. Quassem, which is why this is a problem entirely between your militia and Israel and I see no reason why it should spill over to Lebanon and affect our lives when we have nothing to do with it. Mr. Qassem, since you've proven amply that your love for Syria is paramount, take the fight between you and the Zionists to Syria and keep it there. Maybe indeed you made a point here, the message from Israel is that the fight will move to Syria, wou nderboh tnaynetkoun howneek. Mish hown.
25 January 2015, 17:46
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Just a clarification...an assault on Hezbollah in Syria, is not an assault on Lebanon!
25 January 2015, 19:43
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Israel and Hizbullah are bitter enemies and fought a bloody month-long war in the summer of 2006.
Looooooooooool I love how Naharnet copies this part every time. Bitter enemies don't fight a fake 30-day war.
25 January 2015, 20:05
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yeah right nickjames. Just like the ohalangists fake wars with the Syrians that saved them from the PLO. Pathetic
26 January 2015, 00:47
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Lol Syria fought the Phalangists to save them from the Palestinians that's a good one Mystic.
25 January 2015, 22:42
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Bloviate and threaten to retaliate and talk big! These guys know that if they try anything foolish they will get erased and so will Beirut.
26 January 2015, 00:48
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Hezbollah is gonna be bombed in Syria, then Yemen, then California, and the Lebanese would still be defending the resistance lmao
26 January 2015, 12:33
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My thought was the Iranian General was a fortunate accident. A bunch of high ranking locals were showing off for the Generals at the wrong time. As for Israel assaulting Hizbullah, so what, Hezbola has been assaulting everyone in the Mid East for forty years. I sure wish there was ONE spelling for all these group names.
