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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bassil warns against return to 'Fatah Land' era
2023-10-12
[NAHARNET] Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief Jebran Bassil has warned against a return to the so-called "Fatah Land" era in south Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, in the wake of the attacks launched by Paleostinian groups Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
from south Lebanon.

"As much as we support the right of the Paleostinian resistance to fight Israel on Paleostine’s land, we refuse any use of Lebanese territory as a launchpad for military actions by any non-Lebanese party," Bassil said on a post on the X platform.

"No to a return to the Fatah Land era," Bassil added.

"Fatah Land" refers to the southern Lebanese areas where Paleostinian murderous Moslems set up their bases after being expelled from Jordan following the 1970 Black September conflict. A year earlier, Yasser Arafat, then-leader of the Fatah Movement, signed the Cairo Agreement with Lebanon.

The agreement granted Paleostinians the possibility of launching operations against Israel from their Lebanese bases. That southern region was eventually dubbed "Fatah Land".

The recent Paleostinian attacks on Israel on Monday and Tuesday drew Israeli shelling of southern Lebanese border areas and an Israeli attack on a Hezbollah post that left three fighters dead.

Hezbollah has retaliated three times against the attacks, the last of which today, Wednesday, when it attacked an Israeli post in northern Israel and said it caused deaths and injuries among Israeli troops.

Posted by:Fred

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