#nasrallah assassination

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New details about Nasrallah's assassination… a tracking operation using a "mysterious substance" #israel

It took Israel only two minutes to locate Nasrallah and confirm his presence in a headquarters in the southern suburb Newspaper reports have revealed new details about the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, as this strike is one of the largest operations targeting the party’s leadership in years. Scenarios have varied and accounts have differed.. How was Hezbollah…

[creativemedianews]

Hezbollah’s Deputy Chief Issues Defiant Message After Leader’s Death

Hezbollah’s Deputy Chief Issues Defiant Message After Leader’s Death #2006conflict #civiliancasualties

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Assassinated under U.S. command: Nasrallah murdered in apocalyptic bomb attack

By Gary Wilson

The U.S. was behind the Sept. 27 assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an apocalyptic bombing attack using 85 U.S.-built and supplied BLU-109 bunker-buster bombs (almost six times the explosive power of the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima) in a residential area of Beirut. 

Israeli airstrikes in the following days killed Hamas’ leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, along with his family. Another Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) military security chief, Mohammad Abd al-Aal, military commander Imad Odeh, and  Abdelrahman Abd al-Aal.

On Oct. 1, the Associated Press reported that the Israeli Occupation Force “has moved into southern Lebanon … opening a new front” in its war on the people of Palestine and of Lebanon. 

Nasrallah’s assassination was ordered from New York City by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where he appeared before a nearly empty U.N. General Assembly meeting. Netanyahu’s office released a photo of him inside an office at the U.N. headquarters in New York while using a landline telephone to approve the strike on Beirut. 

Responsibility lies ultimately with the U.S., which finances and arms the Zionist regime. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris – both Democrats – and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson have expressed support for the bombing, praising the assassination. The U.S. recently authorized an additional $8.7 billion in arms to Israel, facilitating its ongoing actions in Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, and now Lebanon.

[because--palestine]

"The symbol is gone, the legend is born, and the resistance continues"

رحل الرمز و وُلدت الأسطورة و تستمر المقاومة ✌️

[yhebrew]

Double PORTIONS in 2024 - Hezbolah & Helene's Hell

Day One of Creation in 2024 is on Sabbath, 25 Elul, September 28, 2024, Standing, When he went. Double Portions – Standing Went – BB Nethanyahu Stands and Went. Parshah 51 Nitzavim (Standing) Deuteronomy 29:9 (10) – 30:20, Isaiah 61:10-63:9 Parshah 52 Vayelekh (He went) Deut 31:1-30, Hosea 14:2 (1) – 10 (9), Micah 7:18-20, Y’oel ;(Joel) 2:15-27 Double Judgments – Evil UN Against Israel + Evil…

[gwydionmisha]

After assassinations, Israel braces for retaliation, wider conflict

[communist-ojou-sama]

Whenever and wherever you see sadistic and depraved Zionist savages celebrating the assassination of the honorable Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, which they achieved only through the slaughter of at least 300 innocent souls, do not anger; merely remind them that the Zionist enemy is in the greatest economic crisis in its history, which will only worsen, that as it besieges Gaza, the righteous forces of the Resistance besiege it as well, and good-hearted and righteous people the world over boycott it. Diplomatically and economically the Zionist Entity is already dying a slow death, and its excrable and outrageous crimes against humanity in its death throes will only speed its end.

As always, all glory to the Resistance and to the Martyrs; death to the Zionist Enemy and its USian masters.

[girlinafairytale]

thousands in kashmir march to honor the memory of hasan nasrallah followed by his assassination by israel.

pc: quds news network

[halalchampagnesocialist]

i don’t think the assassination of nasrallah is gonna have the desired impact israel hopes it’ll have. everyone will either mourn or celebrate depending who you are then everyone will move on and refocus their attention where it needs to be focused which is not going to look good for Israel either way. Netanyahu will still remain a hated man inside israel as well.

[stillnaomi]

10 points on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s Syria from Vijay Prashad

1. The Syrian state had been devastated by the war from 2011 to 2014, and then by the sanctions placed on the country by the United States and its allies. The Syrian Arab Army (the official state army) had never fully recovered in the aftermath of the major fighting and was incapable of taking back the main cities of Hama, Homs, and Aleppo.

2. The Israeli bombardment of Syrian military facilities had weakened the Syrian armed forces’ logistical and ordinance capabilities. These attacks had been sustained and painful for the Syrian armed forces.

3. Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the assassination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had weakened the ability of Hezbollah to operate even within Lebanon’s south, which forced the recent ‘ceasefire’ agreement with Israel. This demonstrated that Hezbollah was not in any position to enter Syria again to defend the Syrian government against any armed incursion on the Hama to Damascus road (highway M5).

4. The attacks on Iranian supply depots and military facilities in Syria as well as the attacks by Israel on Iran had prevented any build up of Iranian forces to defend the Syrian government. The weakening of Hezbollah also weakened Iran’s role in the region.

5. The nearly three years of conflict in Ukraine had certainly denied Syria the ability to call upon further Russian assistance for the protection of Damascus or for the Russian naval base in Latakia.

6. Therefore, Syria’s government no longer had its Iranian and Russian military allies for assistance against the reinforced rebels.

7. The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formed in 2017 out of the al-Qaeda formations, drew together various military forces from Turkey to the Uyghurs – with a large number of other al-Qaeda influenced fighters – and built up its forces in Idlib over the past decade. HTS has received aid and support from Turkey, but also covertly from Israel (this information came to me from a highly placed intelligence official in Turkey).

8. What will the new HTS-led government do regarding the many social minorities in Syria? What will the new HTS-led government do regarding the Golan Heights and Israel? How will the new HTS-government regard the Israeli military incursion in Quneitra?

9. This story is not over yet. There will be much further unrest in the country led by ISIS as well as the Kurdish groups in the north; already Turkish-backed groups are in combat against the Kurdish YPG (People’s Defense Units) and PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) forces in Manbij; US forces are already in eastern Syria, where they say that they will remain as a buffer against ISIS (and will therefore retain control of the oil); Israel also announced that it took over the Golan buffer zone. There will be tension between the governments of Turkey and the US regarding what the new HTS-led government must, and must not do.

10. I hope very much that the statements made by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, that retribution must not be the new culture, will come true. The real fear is regarding the treatment of the minority populations. There is no word yet if the militia groups in Iraq will enter Syria. Much of this depends on what happens to places such as the Sayyida Zaynab shrine in Damascus.

[27moremoons]

Middle East Observer:

Do you know who is in the picture?

He is the martyred leader Abbas al-Moussawi, the former Secretary General of Hezbollah, who was assassinated by the brutal occupation in 1992.

After him came Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who developed the capabilities of the Lebanese resistance...and he had a great impact on that, but whatever happens and whatever God has written

Do not weaken or panic, for this resistance does not end, for it is an ongoing benefit...and a leader is succeeded by a leader

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

The Lebanese movement Hezbollah confirmed in a statement on Saturday the killing of its Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut on Friday.

“His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, joined his great and immortal martyrs, whose journey he led for nearly thirty years,” the statement read.

Hezbollah praised Nasrallah, stating that over the last three decades, “he led them from victory to victory, succeeding the master of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance in 1992 until the liberation of Lebanon in 2000 and until the divine, sustaining victory in 2006 “.

If anyone still had doubts that the U.S. and Israel are determined to start World War III, this should settle the question. - redguard

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28 Sep 24

[sylvia-on-the-run]

On the martyrdom of the great Palestinian leader, Yahya Sinwar.

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. "Do not think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision." This is the Truth of Allah the Almighty.

The initiator of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa opens with his martyrdom the gate to a new phase of victory. With great pride and honor, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command announces to our Palestinian people and to the Arab and Islamic nation the martyrdom of the great and creative leader, Yahya Sinwar, the launcher of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, the head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas Movement.

It congratulates our people and his brothers, the leaders and fighters of the Hamas Movement, on this blessed martyrdom of the leader of the battle of liberation, who rose as a martyr while fighting until the last moment to be a model of the inspiring leader whose blood will ignite the flame of the Flood of Al-Aqsa—just as the blood of the great leader, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, glowed on the road to Al-Quds, as did the blood of the great martyr leader, the fighter Ismail Haniyeh, and his companion, the great fighter leader Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri, and all the martyr leaders in the Battle of the Flood of Freedom.

We in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command are absolutely confident that the Hamas movement will grow stronger, more resilient and more capable of continuing the march of the martyred leaders, and that our steadfast, great people, despite the harshness of the battle, will remain the incubator of the struggle for their resistance. They will foil all the illusions of the enemy who deludedly believes that the Nazi war of extermination that they are waging against our Palestinian people and against the Lebanese people and their resistance and the policy of assassinating leaders may achieve their alleged goals of eliminating the resistance and drawing a new map for a humiliated Middle East.

Glory to the martyrs and victory to the resistance. And a revolution until the liberation of the land and people.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command 18/10/2024

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Nasrallah was killed because he was unrelenting in his support for Palestine. Unlike every other Arab leader, Nasrallah had led the fight against Israel twice, which led to its defeat: first, when Israel was forced to withdraw from Lebanon in 2000 and second when Israel could not vanquish Hezbollah in 2006. The man who defeated Israel was finally killed on September 27, 2024, along with thousands of his fellow Lebanese. [...]

In the Lebanese coastal city of Sur (Tyre), unknown people bombed a number of restaurants that serve alcohol in late 2012. I went down to talk to some of the owners of these restaurants and of a brewery, all of whom told me that they had been visited by people from Hezbollah who offered to pay for the damages even though the attacks were not by their members. Nasrallah had said that though he opposed the consumption of alcohol, he did not believe that Lebanese society must conform to the social views of any group but should learn to tolerate the mores of each other.

For all the talk of Nasrallah and antisemitism, it would be worth considering that it was Hezbollah under Nasrallah that helped the reconstruction of Beirut’s Maghen Abraham Synagogue. “[It] is a religious place of worship,” Nasrallah said, “and its restoration is welcome,” stated Arab News. It is this attitude that partly led to Nasrallah telling Julian Assange during a discussion about Palestine in 2012 that “the only solution is the establishment of one state—one state on the land on Palestine in which the Muslims and the Jews and the Christians live in peace in a democratic state. Any other solution will simply not be viable, and it won’t be sustained.”

When Israel, with US support, began its bombardment of Lebanon in 2006, it appeared certain that Hezbollah would be demolished. But it withstood the attack and counterattacked Israel. Years earlier, friends in the Arab states would ask me, “Why can’t we produce a Hugo Chávez?” meaning why could they not have a leader who would stand up against the interference of the West and the occupation of the Palestinians by Israel. During the 2006 war, these same people began to say that Nasrallah was their Chávez, that he was the incarnation of Gamal Abdel Nasser. The fact that Hezbollah was not destroyed and was able to stand up for itself proved to large sections of the Arab world that Israel lost that war.

The victory is partly attributed to Nasrallah’s ability to convert Hezbollah from a military force into an integral part of the “resistance society” (mujtama’ al-muqawama) in large parts of Lebanon; this resistance society shaped the worldview of the villages of southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, where they committed themselves to the long-term struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Israeli interventions in southern Lebanon. It is this resistance community that defines Hezbollah’s endurance rather than the thousands of missiles it has hidden away in tunnels across Lebanon’s southern region. The Israelis tried to kill Nasrallah many times during and after 2006 but did not succeed. He would often talk about how one of his speeches was his last since it was unclear when the Israelis might succeed.

The assassination of Nasrallah produced a sense of shock across Lebanon because a view had been growing that he could not be killed. But Nasrallah was a man, and human beings die one way or the other. Robert Fisk asked him to explain what it meant to prepare for martyrdom, according to a 2001 article by him. “Imagine you are in a sauna,” Nasrallah said. “It is very hot but you know that in the next room there is air conditioning, an armchair, classical music, and a cocktail.” That would have been his attitude when the Israeli bombs landed.

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by Lee Smith

Unsurprisingly, Israel’s success against Hezbollah the last two weeks alarmed the former Obama officials staffing the current administration. After all, Obama’s strategy to realign U.S. interests with Iran was predicated on the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which put Iran’s nuclear weapons program under the umbrella of an international agreement guaranteed by the United States. The Iranians armed Hezbollah with missiles in order to deter Israeli action against their nuclear facilities, which is to say that the Lebanese militia serves not only Iranian interests but also those of the Obama faction.

The Biden team tried to stop Netanyahu from continuing his Hezbollah campaign by outlining how it intends to punish Israel in the period between the November election and the January inauguration with sanctions and other anti-Israel measures. But by telegraphing its intentions, the White House inadvertently incentivized Netanyahu to act quickly. Since a Harris victory ensures four to eight more years of a White House filled by Obama aides determined to protect the Iranians and their proxies, and a Donald Trump win means Biden’s punitive actions go away, Israel saw it had nothing to lose in either case. So on Friday, Netanyahu brought the era of permanent resistance to an end by killing the cult leader the Obama faction so desperately wanted to but could not keep alive.

In the past, Israeli officials warned against targeting the terror chief. They feared it might bring about an even more ruthless leader just as Israel’s 1992 assassination of then-Hezbollah chief Abbas al-Mussawi elevated, in their eyes, the more effective Nasrallah. But what made Nasrallah special, what gave rise to the personality cult around the man whose name means “victory of God,” was his relationship with Khamenei.

In 1989, Nasrallah left Lebanon for Iran, where the 29-year-old cleric was introduced to Khamenei. In the vacuum left by Khomeini’s death, Khamenei was working to consolidate his power, which included taking control of Hezbollah, Tehran’s most significant external asset. He saw Mussawi’s assassination as an opening to put his own man in place, and with Hezbollah’s operations against Israeli forces in Lebanon, Nasrallah’s legend steadily grew. Even Israeli officials credited Hezbollah for driving Israel out of the south in 2000, a singular triumph worthy of the name Nasrallah, a victory against the hated Zionists that no other Arab leader could claim.

But the myth of Nasrallah as Turban Napoleon was dispelled with the disastrous 2006 war which he stumbled into by kidnapping two Israel soldiers. Later he said that had he known Israel was going to respond so forcefully, he’d never have given the order. And yet despite the thousands killed in Lebanon, Hezbollahis and civilians, and the billions of dollars worth of damage, he claimed that Hezbollah won just because he survived. Before his demise, he’d been in hiding since 2006.

Israel’s recent demonstrations of its technological prowess show that Nasrallah survived this long thanks only to the sufferance of the Jerusalem government. Netanyahu and others seem to have hoped the Hezbollah problem would resolve itself once the Americans came to their senses and recognized the threat Iran posed to U.S. regional hegemony. But the Israelis misread the strategic implications of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The George W. Bush administration’s freedom agenda gave Iraq’s Shia majority an insuperable advantage in popular elections. And since virtually all the Shia factions were controlled by Iran, democratizing Iraq laid the foundations for Iran’s regional empire as well as Obama’s realignment strategy, downgrading relations with traditional U.S. allies like Israel and building ties with the anti-American regime. Even Trump, whose January 2020 targeted killing of Iranian terror chief Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi deputy Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was far and away the most meaningful operation ever conducted by U.S. forces on Iraqi soil, couldn’t entirely break the mold cast by his predecessors and which the Pentagon protected like a priceless jewel.

U.S. forces are still based in Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS and any other Sunnis the Iranians and their allies categorize as threats to their interests. The detail seems almost like a medieval curse imposed on the losing side in a war. After the Iranians killed and maimed thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq, and helped kill and wound thousands more by urging their Syrian ally Bashar Assad to usher Sunni fighters from the Damascus airport to the Iraqi front, America’s best and bravest are condemned to eternal bondage requiring them to protect Iranian interests forever.

The idea advanced by conspiracy theorists from the U.S. political and media establishment on the left as well as the right that Netanyahu is trying to drag the U.S. into a larger regional war with Iran—a thesis sure to be cited repeatedly in the aftermath of Nasrallah’s assassination—is absurd. The Obama faction, of which Biden and Harris are a part, is in Iran’s corner. Moreover, only a fool could be blind to the fact that the Pentagon way of war, three decades into the 21st century and a world away from the United States’ last conclusive victory, means death for all who pursue it.

If Washington and the Europeans are appalled by Israel’s campaign over the last two weeks, it’s because the Israelis have resurfaced the ugly truth that no modish theories of war, international organizations, or even American presidents could long obscure. Wars are won by killing the enemy, above all, those who inspire their people to kill yours. Killing Nasrallah not only anchors Israel’s victory in Lebanon but reestablishes the old paradigm for any Western leaders who take seriously their duty to protect their countrymen and civilization: Kill your enemies.