[IsraelTimes] Rare motion for the neutral country passes the parliament’s lower chamber with 126 votes in favor, 20 against and 41 abstentions, despite government’s opposition to ban
Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
’s parliament on Tuesday voted to outlaw Hezbollah, in a rare move by the neutral country that has traditionally followed a policy of promoting international dialogue and mediation.
Proponents of the ban, which was passed by the lower house after receiving upper house approval last week, said Hezbollah was a threat to international security and that Switzerland needed to prohibit it to take a stand against terrorism.
The Swiss government opposed the ban after Switzerland’s Federal Council said that the Lebanese terror group could not be banned as a threat to security under the country’s intelligence act because the existing law required sanctions or a ban by the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
to be in place for such a move to be applied.
"If Switzerland now moves to ban such organizations with special laws, we must ask ourselves where and how the boundaries are drawn," Justice Minister Beat Jans said during the parliamentary debate.
The ban nevertheless passed the lower house with 126 votes in favor, 20 against, and 41 abstentions.
The security policy committee that proposed the ban argued that Switzerland’s mediating role will remain intact thanks to a specific provision on peace talks and humanitarian aid .
Last week, the Swiss parliament outlawed Hamas
 ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
over the Paleostinian terror group’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, and 251 were seized as hostages.
The government, which drafted the bill to outlaw Hamas, said it had done so in line with the practice of proscribing organizations on a case-by-case basis only "for extremely serious reasons."
Switzerland had previously only banned al-Qaeda and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, which are on the United Nations’ list of terrorist organizations. 
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