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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Raad Says Rivals Want to Win Elections to 'Normalize with Israel'
2022-03-30
All the kewl kids are normalizing with Israel, after all. In fact, many of them are meeting with Israel about Hezbollah paymaster Iran right now.
[An Nahar] The head of Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, claimed Tuesday that political rivals want to win the parliamentary majority "in order to secure laws that would allow them to normalize relations with the Israeli enemy."

"All parties want to keep us away from the parliamentary action arena in order to implement their agendas," Raad added, at a political rally in the southern town of Yohmor.

As for the issue of offshore gas exploration, the MP said: "We have international proposals for gas exploration that are in our interest and for which we wouldn’t pay a cost, but the Americans are refusing, because they want to bring a company that would impose its conditions."

And accusing Washington of "blackmailing us with the Israeli enemy," Raad emphasized that "the Israelis cannot threaten us with anything."

"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...
has a resistance that owns drones and precision missiles. Let the Israeli dare come near," the Hizbullah politician added.

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