Earlier in the week, it was Saudi Arabia that announced that Lebanon declared war on Saudi Arabia. Now, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah is accusing Saudi Arabia of declaring war on Lebanon.
Who is to be believed? It has long been the case that the two primary jihad-funding states of Iran (Shia) and Saudi Arabia (Sunni) — between which tensions are obviously heating up — have been in a quest for regional hegemony. As expected, the State of Israel enters the equation:
The Saudi plot also involved inciting Israel to strike Lebanon, Nasrallah claimed. However, he believes that a new Israeli war with Lebanon is unlikely, as the Israelis know how high its cost would be. He also warned Tel Aviv against trying to exploit the unfolding crisis in Lebanon for its own ends.
How could Zionism and Israel not enter the equation among jihadists? it is an obsession. As expected, Israel is deceptively made out to be an “exploiter,” when the tiny Jewish nation has been fighting for its very survival against jihadist thugs since 1948, after Jews survived the Holocaust. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem collaborated with the Nazis and was determined to destroy any chance of Jews settling in the Middle East.
Everyone knows that Hizballah is an Iranian proxy, and that Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, has openly called for Israel’s destruction. He even stated that the “barbaric Jewish state has no cure but to be annihilated.”
Meanwhile, to add a little more suspense to the “case of the missing Lebanese Prime Minister,” even prior to his departure, anxiety had been stirring in the region about:
an impulsive, youthful Saudi leader escalating threats to roll back growing Iranian influence, an equally impulsive Trump administration signaling broad agreement with Saudi policies, and increasingly pointed warnings from Israel that it may eventually fight another war with Hezbollah.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says Saudi Arabia has declared war on Lebanon, adding that the “detention” and “house arrest” of Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri an “unprecedented Saudi intervention” in Lebanon’s internal affairs.
The reports of the assassination plot were fabricated by the Saudis, Nasrallah said, while the PM’s resignation speech was also written by them, he claimed in a televised speech.
The Hezbollah leader also stated that the Lebanese government is still legitimate and urged all the parties to cooperate with it.Nasrallah claimed that Hariri was prevented by the Saudis from returning to Lebanon, while the whole situation around resignation of the PM was an “unprecedented Saudi intervention” in Lebanon’s internal affairs.
Hariri is a prisoner in Saudi Arabia, and cannot return to his own country. Saudi Arabia is seeking to impose its will on the Lebanese government. It is trying to sow the seeds of discord among various political factions here and pit them against each other,” the Hezbollah leader said, as quoted by Press TV.
Meanwhile, the US State Department has released a statement “cautioning against any party, within or outside Lebanon, using Lebanon as a venue for proxy conflicts.” Washington urges all parties “to respect the integrity and independence of Lebanon’s legitimate national institutions,” including the government and the army, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated Friday, adding: “In this regard, we respect Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri as a strong partner of the United States.”
The Saudi plot also involved inciting Israel to strike Lebanon, Nasrallah claimed. However, he believes that a new Israeli war with Lebanon is unlikely, as the Israelis know how high its cost would be. He also warned Tel Aviv against trying to exploit the unfolding crisis in Lebanon for its own ends.The most recent armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah erupted in 2006 and effectively resulted in a stalemate. Both sides, however, claimed victory.
The alleged Saudi actions against Lebanon were prompted by the kingdom’s anger at the failure of its politics in the country, as well as in its neighbor, Syria, Nasrallah stated. Riyadh, in fact, failed across all arenas in the region and will fail again with its new endeavor in Lebanon, the Hezbollah leader added.
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The recent remarks made by the top Saudi officials equate to a “declaration of war” against Lebanon and Hezbollah, Nasrallah said. Earlier this week, the Saudi minister of state for Gulf affairs, Thamer al-Sabhan, said that the Lebanese administration would be “dealt with as a government declaring war on Saudi Arabia,” and blamed Hariri’s administration for its inaction towards Hezbollah over the past year……
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It is virtually impossible to believe any of these two. Firstly, it is a well know fact that Saudi Arabia has and is financing the land purchase and building of every single mosque built outside of their own country. One has simply to go the respective countries and check the public records to backtrack and confirm this. The Saudis are not really on the side of the Western World. Let us not forget that the hijackers of 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia. Then you have Iran, who are the most blatantly violent of all and have sworn to do their very best to destroy America and Israel, (“Little Satan and Big Satan”) from off the face of the earth.
Voytek Gagalka says
On start of the WWII, Hitler also accused Poland of “starting the war.” Nobody likes to be aggressor, ever the most vicious dictators, hence their lies and deceptions.
apexpoint says
Lebanon was a beautiful Christian country before it was overran by the Palestinians and turned into a Hezbollah-controlled country with mass immigration. This should be a good lesson for Europe which allowed mass immigration of Moslems.
Chand says
But didn’t that happen because Palestinian lands were over run by European Jewish refugees fleeing European anti-Semitism and the Holocaust? So the Palestinians became refugees who fled to Lebanon and elsewhere.
Valerie says
No, actually the Palestine muslims fled to refugee camps in the first Isreal war which Egypt declared (Egypt told/warned them to flee). Britain had limited the amount of Jews settling in the lands before and during the war. Hitler sent about 60,000 Jews to Isreal under the Vanaas Agreement in the 30’s. Isreal also absorbed many Arab palestinian Muslims, Druze and Christian’s already living in their section allotted to them under the Balfour Agreement.
Many of the so called Palestine refugees were work migrants from Egypt, Syria and Jordan Lands, and not all “original” Palestinians, they just never left. Many Jews bought the land (situated in Isreal) from Arab Palestinians, which displaced the tenants who were leasing the land, others were Nomads.
Muslims (Palestine) would like you to believe they are all victims of Isreal!
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
The evil Saudi Royal family are Zionists trying to fight proxy war for fascist evil state of Israhell. They will fail and their oppressive rule will soon end to liberate Islamic holy sites from Jewish control. Idiots!!
IanB says
That’s codswallop Ibrahim (new word for you?)
IanB says
… as in “a load of codswallop” – that is, just like Islam.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Well, it was long past due for the Sunni/Shia wars to start up again! Good on ya!