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US-sanctioned Hezbollah member visits UAE to open ‘new page’ in ties

2024-03-21

[IsraelTimes] A bigwig from the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah has made a landmark trip to the United Arab Emirates to facilitate the release of more than a dozen Lebanese nationals detained there, four sources close to Hezbollah tells Rooters.

The visit at the invitation of the UAE could signal a significant shift away from the hostility that has long defined relations between Shi’ite Moslem Hezbollah and the Sunni Moslem UAE, a strategic ally of the United States, analysts said.

There is no immediate response from the UAE foreign ministry to Rooters’ requests for comments.

One of the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, describes Wafiq Safa’s visit as a "new page" in ties between the UAE and Hezbollah, which is designated a terrorist group by the United States and its Gulf Arab allies.

Safa traveled to the UAE yesterday, the sources say. He runs Hezbollah’s Liaison and Coordination Unit, responsible for coordinating with Lebanese security agencies, and is sanctioned by the United States.

The four sources familiar with Hezbollah’s thinking say that the UAE made contact with Hezbollah with a message that they were seeking to release the Lebanese detainees, several of whom were serving life sentences.

The sources say the detainees were arrested on charges including providing support and finance for Hezbollah, describing these as politically motivated charges.

All four sources say the detainees will be released in the coming days and will accompany Safa back to Leb
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 dozen 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...
Two of the sources say the UAE asked Hezbollah’s ally Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
to pass on the message before the start of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war, during which Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border.

There is no immediate response from Syria’s information ministry to a Rooters request for comment.

One of the sources says the visit suggests an effort to alleviate "some of the regional tensions," without elaborating.

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