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2015-02-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

[WeeklyStandard] Is Iran's Lebanese client losing its grip?

A taste:

Last week Hezbollah buried one of its princes, Jihad Mughniyeh, the 22-year-old son of the late Imad Mughniyeh, a legendary Hezbollah commander implicated in such infamous operations as the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. The liquidation of the elder Mughniyeh in Damascus in 2008, typically attributed to Israel, is regarded as one of the organization's most traumatic blows. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
some in the Shiite community here say that Israel's January 18 strike on a three-car convoy in the Golan Heights near the Syrian town of Quneitra--which killed the younger Mughniyeh and five other Hezbollah operatives, along with as many as six Iranians--is evidence of a dangerous crisis for Hezbollah.

The throngs attending the younger Mughniyeh's funeral on January 19 yelled "Death to America" only once. "I counted," says Lokman Slim, an anti-Hezbollah Shiite activist. "And they said 'Death to Israel' only a few times. Then they went to more religious slogans."

According to Slim, the scaled-down rhetoric and modest size of the funeral are evidence that Hezbollah is caught in a bind. "The [Lebanese Shiites] don't want another war with Israel," says Slim, "but they also want to know Hezbollah can protect them like it says."

Posted by trailing wife 2015-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top
File under: Hezbollah

#1 Hezbollah is unaccustomed to waging a long war of attrition like this, far from the Lebanese villages where it fought guerrilla wars against Israel. To be sure, its fighters are becoming a battle-hardened expeditionary force, but the nature of the war is reconfiguring Shiite society. “Boys are dropping out of school to join the fight,” says Slim. “They enjoy the benefits of manhood earlier than before, but it’s becoming a community without men, or men who are simply on leave from Syria and waiting to return. The result,” he says smiling, “is that the women will become more powerful.”

Tarbaby just sat and stared.

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-01 06:10|| 2015-02-01 06:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Wishful thinking.

Did Israel retaliated to 2 dead soldiers? No.

That shows the power of Heezbolhah.

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2015-02-01 08:25|| 2015-02-01 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Did Israel retaliated to 2 dead soldiers?

Yes. Only partially---you've to wait for all the rats to leave their holes again.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-01 09:26|| 2015-02-01 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Jihad Mughniyeh should have been hit again with a hellfire missile at his own funeral. And then again and again if someone tries to clean up the mess. Send the message that he and his ilk are toxic.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-02-01 11:39|| 2015-02-01 11:39|| Front Page Top

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