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2022-05-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Hezbollah Weapons at Heart of Lebanon's Elections Sunday
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[IRAQSUN] It was a sea of yellow as thousands of men, women and kiddies waving Hezbollah flags and wearing the group's trademark yellow caps rallied in the ancient eastern city of Baalbek in support of the heavily armed krazed killer group.
One after another, many attendees vowed to vote Sunday for the Shiite Moslem Hezbollah and its allies in Leb
 ...an Iranian colony 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. It is the home of 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...
's closely watched parliamentary elections, rejecting any attempt to disarm the powerful group.
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Despite a devastating economic collapse and multiple other crises gripping Lebanon - the culmination of decades of corruption and mismanagement - the deeply divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
issue of Hezbollah's weapons has been at the center of the vote for a new 128-member parliament.
Disarming the group has dominated political campaigns among almost all of the group's opponents. Those include Western-backed mainstream political groups and independents who played a role in nationwide protests since the start of the economic meltdown in October 2019.
'This is the biggest misinformation campaign. Why? Because they are implementing America's policy against the resistance weapons,' senior Hezbollah official Hussein Haj Hassan told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Friday ahead of the rally in Baalbek.
Hezbollah was the only group officially allowed to keep its weapons after the 1975-90 civil war because it was fighting Israeli forces occupying parts of south Lebanon. In 2000, Israel withdrew from Lebanon, but Hezbollah and others in the small Mediterranean nation insisted its weapons were necessary to defend it against Israel, which has one of the strongest armies in the region.
Hezbollah has since fought a monthlong war with Israel in 2006 that ended in a draw. After the start of the conflict in neighboring Syria, the Iran-backed group sent thousands of fighters to support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
's forces, helping him tip the balance of power in his favor.
Hezbollah's rivals say its weapons and its backing of regional forces such as Assad's and the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
have harmed Lebanon's relations with oil-rich Persian Gulf nations. Those nations have categorized the Lebanese group as a terrorist organization and withheld crucial financial support for the country.
Haj Hassan, a politician since 1996 and a Cabinet minister three times, said claims that Hezbollah is responsible for Lebanon's collapse were 'a big lie.'
'They forgot the political system, economic system, corruption, the war in Syria and its effects on Lebanon and they forgot the American sanctions,' he said at his home near Baalbek.
Hezbollah maintains its weapons are to defend Lebanon and not for internal use. But the group used them against rivals in May 2008 in the worst fighting at the time in many years. The Hezbollah offensive came after the government of then-Hezbollah opponent Fouad Saniora decided to dismantle the group's military telecommunications network.
'No Lebanese group should have the right to be armed while other Lebanese are not,' said Samy Gemayel, head of the right-wing Kataeb party, in comments to the local LBC station Friday night.
The vote this year is the first after the economic collapse, described by the World Bank as one of the worst the world has witnessed in more than 150 years. It is also the first since the August 2020 blast at Beirut's port that killed more than 200, injured thousands and caused large scale damage in the capital.
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