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Down Under
Australia labels all of Hezbollah a terrorist organization
2021-11-24
Some sort of tipping point seems to have been reached.
[IsraelTimes] Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says the Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
-based organization poses a ’real’ and ’credible’ threat to Australia, and provides support to other terror groups


Australia on Wednesday listed all of Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization," extending an existing ban on armed units to the entire organization, which wields considerable power in Lebanon.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said that the Iran-backed Shi’ite group "continues to threaten terrorist attacks and provide support to terrorist organizations," and poses a "real" and "credible" threat to Australia.

Hezbollah has been designated as a terrorist group by parts of the West, although some countries have been reluctant to sanction the group’s political wing, fearing it could destabilize Lebanon and hamper contacts with authorities.

Hezbollah defies easy definition — acting as part political party, part terrorist organization and part provider of basic services to Lebanon’s Shi’ite community. It is the only side that has to date refused to disarm since the country’s devastating civil war ended in 1990.

Membership in the organization or providing funding for it will now be banned in Australia, which has a large Lebanese community.

No reason was given for the timing of the move, which comes as Lebanon reels from spiraling political and economic crises. Nearly 80% of the population is estimated to be living below the poverty line.

Elections are expected in March 2022 and there is growing public anger about nepotism and corruption among Lebanon’s ruling class.

Hezbollah is labeled a terrorist group by the United States, Israel and the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
, and Israel often calls on to other countries to follow suit. A growing number of countries have done so, and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
placed the organization’s financial arm on its terror blacklist last month.
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