Press TV reports:
Hezbollah warns that the United States could next choose to recognize Israel’s “sovereignty” over the Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank unless the Arab world springs to action.
The Lebanese resistance movement’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah issued the caution during a speech on Tuesday.
“When the entire world allows [US President Donald] Trump to declare [Jerusalem] al-Quds as Israel’s eternal capital, and especially the Arab world remains silent, this opens the way for all US violations,” he said.
“When institutions and International laws fail to serve the American agenda and their interest, they just simply disregard it in all disrespect, and what is called ‘the international community’ is not able to protect any right of the people whatsoever, including land ownership and sovereignty, taking back conquered land like what happened in Golan or what happened before that in (Jerusalem) al-Quds,” Nasrallah said.
Trump recognized the holy city, which the Israeli regime occupied as part of the Palestinian territory of the West Bank during a war in 1967, as Israel’s “capital” in late 2017. On Monday, the US president took his second most controversial pro-Israeli action during his tenure by recognizing the regime’s “sovereignty” over Syria’s Golan Heights. Tel Aviv occupied the latter territory during the same war.
“We must expect Trump to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank,” Nasrallah added.
He said such a potential move “is part of the deal of the century,” referring to an under-wraps Washington proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which reportedly includes outrageous violations against Palestinians’ historical demands.
“They can say the Palestinian people can go and live in Gaza,” the Hezbollah chief said, envisioning expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank as part of the US plan.
He urged the Arab world to resort to what “conscience” it had left by preventing these prospects.
The Arab League, Nasrallah proposed, should use its upcoming summit in Tunisia to withdraw the so-called Arab peace initiative, proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, and instead press for more negotiation.
The initiative offers normalization of ties between Israel and 22 Arab countries in return for Tel Aviv’s withdrawal from the West Bank.
US after ‘civil war’ in Lebanon
Separately, Nasrallah pointed to remarks made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a recent visit to Lebanon. Attending the Lebanese Foreign Ministry, the top diplomat urged that the Lebanese “face” Hezbollah and branded the group as an obstacle to realization of the Lebanese people’s dreams.
Nasrallah said his movement was in the service of Lebanon’s protection as has been the case during Israel’s several invasions of the country. Hezbollah rather upheld the Lebanese people’s dreams of retrieving the part of their land, which has been occupied by Tel Aviv, and eradication of corruption.
“Is Hezbollah standing in the face of these dreams? Or is Hezbollah part of the apparatus, which people pin their hopes on,” he asked.
The Hezbollah chief also referenced the US’s history of sowing instability, destruction, and bloodshed across the world through military invasion. By singling out the resistance group as the source of the country’s problems, the US is rather trying to pit the Lebanese people against each other and trigger a “civil war,” Nasrallah noted.
“He (Pompeo) is trying to incite us and wants the Lebanese people to shed each other’s blood. Pompeo is frustrated with the stability and peaceful coexistence in Lebanon,” he said.
Hezbollah proved last year, fighting in tandem with the Lebanese Army to rid Lebanon of al Nusra terrorists, that it served Lebanon, Lebanon’s security and institutions. And everyone in Lebanon knows the destiny of their nation is entirely dependent on the strength and courage and self-sacrifice of Hezbollah’s fighters.
It is inevitable that the Russian missile defense umbrella will cover Lebanon.
The Israelis may have Trump behind them. But there is no way the US military will take on Hezbollah. We see in Yemen that the US couldn’t even take on the Houthis.
Deprive the IDF and US of air dominance, as the S300 and S400 do, and they are not a military or alliance that can win on any ground.
As for West Bank being taken? Quite likely. Jared Kushner’s “Peace Plan” backed to the hilt by Trump and loved by Bibi is to deprive the Palestinians of any piece of Israel and shove the Palestinians into Jordan. Jordan will get billions as sop for being treated like a dumping ground.
Larch,
Inevitable? Please provide some evidence to back this up.
Lebanon is quite poor thanks to the depredations of Iran/Hezbollah. They cannot afford to buy a major Russian built AA system. Not even an old one like the S-200. To say nothing of the much the more expensive S-300 or S-400.
In Syria, Russia’s AA assets are not engaging IDF planes striking Iranian offensive troops and missile facilities. If Putin is not willing to defend Iran/Hezbollah in Syria, what evidence suggests that he will commit forces to Lebanon?
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Russia Remains Commited to their Alliance with Israel
Russia and Israel remain deep partners in the military arms industry. For example, they recently inked a joint sale of $800M+ to provide AWACS to India (1). And, there are many other smaller shared efforts that add up to a significant chunk of money for Russia’s government.
Intervening to support Lebanon/Hezbollah against Israel would wipe out this chunk of the Russian economy.
The logic of ‘enlightened self interest’ points to Putin, either:
— Staying completely out of a Hezbollah / Israel conflict. Or,
— Protecting his military joint venture income by supporting Israel against Hezbollah.
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(1) https://www.theindianwire.com/world/india-finalize-israeli-deal-worth-800-million-another-two-awacs-system-98476/
A123,
Your doubt about Russia providing a defence umbrella for Lebanon is not far fetched. I have been following most of Larch’s comments on this site for a while he is brilliant, is only blind spot is for all things Russia. The Saker always hit the nail on the head, that is Russia doesn’t owe Iran or Hezbollah anything that would get it involved in conflict between the two opposing side, under the prevailing conditions Russia may take some diplomatic initiative on behalf of Lebanon for economic interest rather than cover Lebanon with any defence umbrella. Let’s be candid, in the middle east equation Lebanon today translate to Hezbollah.
However, only Iran can do this without any reservations and can do such through Hezbollah not through LAF because the pro West figures in Lebanon will not agree to it. But I doubt Iran posses such technology for now, probably in some few years time.
A123, you have a real gift for hasbara disinformation. Lebanon’s woes have nothing to do with Hezbollah, who stopped Israel stealing the country up to the Litani with an heroic resistance that burst the racist bubble of Zionazi self-declared ‘military invincibility’. The real cause of Lebanon’s troubles are Zionazi actions, and those of its slave states, the USA and the rest of the West, principally through economic sanctions.
What escapes your thinking is the reality of geopolitical relationships (partners as Russia calls anyone who will deal with them, or even those who just talk to them).
Russia sold S-400 to Turkey after Turkey shot down their jet fighter, Turkmen machine-gunned the pilot as he parachuted, and later, Turkey failed to protect the Russian Ambassador (one of the best) from assassination.
Then Russia has a deal with Saudi Arabia for S-400 while Iran got S-300 but rejected buying S-400 (they will build their own, they say). And Qatar, who finances ISIS and al Nusra, is in line to get S-400s. Yet Iran and Russia are working hand-in-hand in Syria, and in gas pipeline and nuclear energy sectors.
Think of the labyrinth of “interests” in just these items.
If Lebanon asks for the existing S-400s to cover them, Russia will oblige. It’s there anyway for protection of Latakia and Tartus. The question is who is the ‘attacker’ and what are its targets?
The arrangement (deconfliction) is openly known (but apparently not to you). Israel calls the Russians and tells them. Else, those missiles and guided bombs might be thought by the operators watching radar in the Russian controlled units will blow the IDF F-16s and F-35s to kingdom come. Airspace is close, tight, and no nation would risk their airframes and pilots without deconfliction.
The reality is thus: Russia has many self-interests, as do all major nations. Selling two IL-76 air frames for the AWACs to India is important, not just to please Israel. It keeps India tightly bound to Russian aircraft and military weapons systems, maintenance, and parts supply systems. That is an historic relationship even though Russia also has very close relationships with China and Pakistan (India’s “rivals” in the South Asia zone).
If you look at a good, well-marked map, you will see that Lebanon is crucial to Syria and the 50-year air base and naval base Russia has secured. Also, the Russian naval buildup will push more and more ships into the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Most all will need Tartus as base. Tartus is being expanded, but has its limits. In fact, one day, a new Russian Fleet will be created to serve Africa and parts of the ME and southern Europe. That means securing more bases for those ships. Egypt has offered, Libya has offered and Lebanon will clearly be offering. There is Beirut and Tripoli ports. And with China doing major port infrastructure development for BRI, those ports will be expanded, too. As bases, they will be protected.
Syria is the prize. Russia won it. It requires protecting Lebanon to secure it.
There are oh so many reasons why S-300s and S-400s will umbrella Lebanon sooner rather than later.
In fact, the Russian Military will make the decision. They already warned after the shootdown of the Il-20 that if Israel caused another incident, the airspace would be closed completely, full range. Check a map that shows the coverage of those systems at Tartus and Latakia. All it takes is one stupid IDF move and the switch is flipped.
I’ll add this to my reply, from today’s news feed at Tass:
http://tass.com/defense/1050749
180 new ships coming by 2027. Need moorage and ports! (-Shoigu)
Facts matter.
from this speech
Nasrallah:
we are quite satisfied that we are upsetting the most powerful country in the world. We are part of a school of thought that says that if America is happy with us, then there is a problem, we are not doing things right.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/26/trump-foreign-policy-do-whatever-netanyahu-and-prince-salman-want.html
The Saud royal family comes originally from Syrian land laying east of the Euphrates. The current reaction of the Saudi’s to news that Trump recognizes Israeli claims to the Golon is fake. The Saud’s are not against this land grab. They are all for it. Well, that is my view.
A unica coisa, entre as coisas más, em que o estado nazi.sionista igualou o nazismo do III Reich foi na capacidade de sua demente auto propaganda.
Nas restantes -más coisas- ele o superou e as vezes, de longe.
E não vamos falar dos detalhes destes atos ‘heroicos’ porque tem muito estômago que não aguenta.
Translation:
The only thing, among the bad things, in which the Nazi-Zionist state equaled the Nazism of the Third Reich was in the capacity of its insane self-propaganda.
In the remaining -more things- he overcame him and sometimes, from afar.
And let’s not talk about the details of these ‘heroic’ acts because it has a lot of stomach that can not stand.
The zionazi-gays have also tightened up the screws on their pindo colonial echo chamber regarding israeli war on Gaza and Hamas, another war criminal invasion appears imminent.
The Palestinian people and their land cannot go on year after year and decade after decade to watch the blood of their elders, children and ancient Arab culture being drained drop by drop by the vampiric Zionists to be systematically wiped away from the sands of time. They need to commit as a nation down to every last man or woman to repel the tyranny. This should be their number one priority to fight the occupation like the French and Russian peoples did against Germany during WWII.
Nothing is more important in this time than to secure your freedom. It is insanity for Palestine to hope, to grovel to prostrate yourself by pursuing a lost cause through diplomatic channels to the international bodies, for your plight is ignored with words of placation. The time for talk is over, Palestine. If you want the respect of the world then you must show them you are willing to die for liberty, whether it be one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand or one hundred thousand fighters.
It is the second decade of the 21st century. Your future children want to know; will we be born into slavery to serve at the whim of the Zionist oppressor? Do not condemn your loving children to such a life, do not wrap them in swaddling clothes made of chains of servitude, do not deny them their God given birthright to be free. Save them from such a horror. Fight for them, for their essence, for their Arab blood.
No regional country is willing to directly help these people including the impotent United Nations. What will it take for the Palestinians to reach their tipping point and organize collectively to throw out the Zionist oppressors from their sovereign land? How much longer will they endure this egregious and inhuman suffering of death by a thousand cuts?
Israel does not want peace, they do not want a two-state solution, they do not want the occupied people to be contained and controlled. They want the Palestinians to be completely removed from the land through some sort of national diaspora or by killing every last one of them. Why can’t the Palestinian people see this stark reality and go all out to defend their existence and rights to their own land?
What do you expect the Palestinians to do ?
Commit suicide ?
Gaza is the largest outdoor prison on Earth, and the West bank does not have much choice either.
Hamas, tries to resist with what they have, with great risk to themselves and the people of Gaza.
The Muslims have been massacred and expelled before from the Holy lands in the time of Western Christian crusaders, I do not even consider them real Christians, but anyways for namesakes. No one who follows Jesus Christ would commit such atrocities in his name. Anyways, without a state or a standing army to fall back on, what do you expect from the Palestinians ?… A miracle ? :-)
Palestinians historically were always part of an Islamic Empire or state. One of the main responsibilities historically of any Islamic Empire or state was to have full custody over the holy lands, thereby guaranteeing the rights of all religions to live and worship in this area. Without this, the Palestinians cannot be expected to conquer the Zionist Jews, let alone stop them from expelling them without the backing of the Arab Muslim states, or any of the other Muslim nations (Pakistan, Indonesia, etc.) for that matter.
The Palestinians are doing unbelievably well for the situation they are in. The Palestinians in their very difficult state are living with more dignity and honor then all the Arabs and Muslims on this Earth combined. The Palestinian people will continue to fight and struggle with whatever they have, regardless of their situation (disunity, corruption, no help from neighbors) and regardless if they are in the Holy lands or are expelled to neighboring areas.
We are heading towards very dark times, where the West (regardless of who is in power) is openly, not only, allying themselves with the Zionist Jews of Israel (and the Western Zionists Jews), but actually becoming (or has long become) subservient to the Zionist Jews. This is not to mention the possibility of nuclear war or a complete global economic collapse, rearranging the monetary system.
The majority of the Western people, with their materialistic godless scientific and analytical method cannot comprehend what is actually happening and going to happen. You basically have very technologically and economically advanced godless people who have taken over the world, who are now being taken over by a very ideological religiously satanic group. The only Westerners who really know whats going on, are either truth seekers (people who for example read The Saker’s blog) or are people who are completely allied with or are in the same satanic religion (e.g. Christian Zionist, etc.).
The dots can be clearly seen and connected for those who are truthful and ready to see.
You wrote, “Anyways, without a state or a standing army to fall back on, what do you expect from the Palestinians ?… A miracle ?”
That statement explains perfectly why the Palestinians have been a captured people since 1948. The Arab population of 5 million plus citizens has no unified leadership because of the political bifurcation between the “ruling governments” of the West Bank (Palestinian Authority) and the Gaza Strip (Hamas). Both of these groups refuse to concede power to unite the country, which is exactly what the Zionists want. “Divide and Conquer” is Israel’s strategy and it works to oppress and control the Arabs. These two unprincipled political factions take Israeli bribes and care nothing for their fellow citizens’ plight. That is the stark exegesis of how the corrupt political governments of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank operates.
For more than 70 years Hamas shoots off crude rockets or mortars that result in little damage to the Zionists yet gives the Hebrew criminals justification to “mow the grass” and kill with impunity. Why do they continue with these stupid attacks on Israel that only brings death down upon the heads of the common people of Gaza? These ground to ground unguided rockets aimed at the population of Israel are somewhat effective in creating terror but the blow back to the people of Gaza results in immense suffering and loss of precious life. The military response by Israel is to kill as many Gaza civilians with the expectation the people will reject Hamas as the ruling government and install a puppet regime similar to the timid PA in the West Bank. The Israelis hold all the cards and use a strategy of ‘death by a thousand cuts’ to drive the Arab psyche into total submission.
Palestinians will never be free of Israeli control until they find a charismatic leader such as the late Omar Mukhtar to bring the men of Gaza and the West Bank together and install a new national government. This new coalition must declare the occupation of Palestine is no longer tolerated. The Arabs are going to have to decide to gird up their loins as a nation and fight the beast on martial terms; it’s the only way left short of leaving the historical land of their fathers. They need a total commitment to throw off the Zionist chains of oppression by fully embracing the discipline of military training and acquire modern infantry weapons. One million men or five hundred thousand men or even one hundred thousand men willing to die for the freedom of their children must be their overarching spiritual jihad. Palestinian men and women must learn to fight using guerilla tactics with organized teams of snipers to kill IDF soldiers guarding checkpoints, protecting the 200 mile apartheid wall and decoy them when they come out with their gunboats to harass Gaza fishermen.
If ISIS/ISIL, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, Yemeni Houtha, Taliban, North African mercenaries etc. can acquire modern weapons and materials, so can the Palestinians. They must have the collective will do it; no more talk, no more pleading, no more lies based upon false hope by that Israeli bootlicker, Mahmoud Abbas. Every spare shekel must be allocated towards obtaining military-grade hardware and the training necessary to repel the overlords of the dark underworld.
If you don’t think that can happen, think again. The Taliban have been defeating the U.S. Military for over 10 years in Afghanistan. I repeat, the most powerful military in the world in terms of sophisticated weaponry (e.g., naval armada launching cruise missiles, tanks, airplanes, heavy artillery, satellite reconnaissance network, etc.) have been beaten repeatedly by a mere light infantry fighting force wearing turbans on their heads and flip flops on their feet. How is that possible? It’s because when people fight for their culture and homeland, nothing will stop them from triumph over an invader. The eternal flame of liberty is not bound by the constraints of time and money. It is an idea born of free men and cannot be extinguished, ever.
Lastly, every year young men, women and children are sent to Israeli prisons for throwing rocks or worse, executed on the spot by IDF murderers with impunity. This must not be allowed to happen any longer.
Take a long look at this picture:
https://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/israeli-soldier-assaulting/
This image is one of hundreds and hundreds of examples of Zionist thuggery. How does this not fill the hearts of every Palestinian with rage? The Jews suffered for 12 years under the Third Reich but the Palestinians have endured greater hell for over 70 years. Revenge is a huge motivator for maximum redress against the ongoing cruelty of the Zionists.
It can be done; it is only a matter of doing.
Criticizing Palestinian disunity and corruption is one thing, but blaming the Palestinians for not being able to defeat the Western backed Zionist Israel indicates, with all due respect, a lack of knowledge of the historical and political reality.
I will continue to debate this topic for the sake of the Palestinian people now and in the future.
The idea you put forth the Palestinians cannot defeat the Israeli crime syndicate is a statement of appeasement that I would expect from government leaders such as Hamas and the PA. These most unscrupulous politicians have no intention of planning and executing a rebellion because quite frankly they are cowards and flunkies who lack the fortitude to rally the Palestinians to victory. They must be removed from office and replaced by men of conviction who have a focused singularity of overthrowing the Zionist occupation with every fiber of their being and an unyielding commitment to nothing less.
Oh and Hamas has not existed for 70 years lol :-).
The Palestinians have produced scores of leaders, and the Zionazis have killed them all, or corrupted them, or imprisoned them on false charges.
Poke The Truth: thanks for your comments. I went to check out that video and its been censored (no surprise) for “violating YouTube’s terms and conditions”. Obviously, in this Orwellian world, the truth must be squashed. Boycott this rabid murderous racist regime. Boycott Eurovision.
Only Jesus can now save Palestine and the Palestinians.
The imbecile zionist deal is – let’s just say we own everything and it will be true. The only problem is that the US can make as many declarations of ownerwhip on behalf of the entity but it has no power to enforce. With Syria lost the occultists are desperate to end run greater israel into reality. Typical doubling down on a lost cause with no regard for the day of reckoning that is coming.
Zionism is not judaism – but the zionists are making sure that jews as a collective will be dragged down into the abyss. The entity has deliberately created a blood link to judaism as the last desperate measure to retain any credibility for the zionist project = bankster globalist world dominance. The fact that aipac is even being discussed in the MSM is a sign of extreme vulnerability for the oligarchy.
An all out war against the resistance will expose – not the entity 2006 did that – but once and for all show that the US has no military capabilities left. That exposure will be a huge wake up call for the US elites and maybe even some of the public that it is time to cut bait with the zionists.
Sayyed Hassan Nasralla is spot-on on this.
They won´t stop out of themselves. After the annexation of the West Bank, further ethnic cleansing will follow. Non-Jews are officially second hand citizens already. And Israel showed it´s true face when even refusing Ethiopian Jews to immigrate. Deep outrage about such racism in the MSM in 3.. 2.. 1…
Don´t count out, that at a certain moment also non-Jew relics like Christian heritage will be wiped out. This is the ruthless nature of the Tribe.
Cheers, Rob
I see that my blistering critque of Russian immigrants moving to occupied Palestine and taking indigionous Palestinian land for themselves, bought, paid and defended by US tax payers, didn’t pass the censorship sniff test. Was I lying?
Your comment is awaiting review by Saker. It was flagged as a lot of ‘accusations’ without any supporting references or links … mod
Just in:
“Israel could annex parts of West Bank in coming years – Netanyahu
In an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News, Netanyahu promised to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if elected for another term next week. “You are asking whether we are moving on to the next stage – the answer is yes, we will move to the next stage. I am going to extend [Israel’s] sovereignty,” he said.
He went on to say that “each settlement is Israeli and [he] will not hand it over to Palestinian sovereignty.” The prime minister also told journalists that he would not “divide Jerusalem” and would “make sure we control the territory west of Jordan.”
The right-wing politician also argued against a two-state solution by saying that a Palestinian state would “endanger our existence.””
https://www.rt.com/news/455749-israel-annex-west-bank-netanyahu/
Israhell will not stop wreaking havoc on earth before every single human bow to them! This is not going to happen and will result in big war and Israhell will be burned!
RR