αυτομολήσουν, σε ομιλία του ο ηγέτης της οργάνωσης Χάσαν Νασράλα υποσχέθηκε νίκη των μαχητών της Χεζμπολάχ που πολεμούν στο πλευρό των συριακών κυβερνητικών στρατευμάτων στην Συρία και απέρριψε οποιαδήποτε πιθανότητα συμμαχίας με τους Σύρους αντάρτες.
«Με δύο μόνο λέξεις, μπορώ να συγκεντρώσω δεκάδες χιλιάδες
εθελοντές ώστε να αγωνιστούν για τον Μπασάρ αλ Άσαντ», είπε, υποστηρίζοντας ότι
λαμβάνει καθημερινά επιστολές μέχρι και από γονείς, που τον παρακαλούν να στείλουν
τους γιους τους να πολεμήσουν στη Συρία.
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Hizballah leader Hassan
Nasrallah vowed Saturday night, May 25, to expand his movement’s
military role in the Syrian civil war. “With just two words, I can
muster tens of thousands of volunteers to fight for Bashar Assad,” he
said, claiming that he receives daily letters from parents begging him
to send their only sons to fight in Syria. Al Qaeda fighters were
streaming into Syria and Israel planned more attacks, he warned, in a
speech marking the 13th anniversary of Israel’s military withdrawal from
South Lebanon.
The Hizballah leader
said if Sunni Islamists took over in Syria, they would pose a threat to
the entire Lebanese population. If Assad falls, so too will the
“resistance front” against Israel - as well as the Palestinian people of
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. “Hizballah will not let that happen!”
Nasrallah declared.
DEBKAfile’s military
sources: Nasrallah’s speech denotes his movement’s plunging ever deeper
into the Syrian conflict. From limited involvement, he has undertaken to
fight for Assad to the end, for better or for worse.
The issue is no longer,
as Israeli officials insist, whether he can get hold of the advanced
Iranian weapons supplied him through Syria, only whether Hizballah can
fulfill its two twofold goal. One is to tip the scales of the war in
favor of the Syrian army and the other is to contribute enough troops to
the various war sectors to free Syrian forces for battling Israel in
the war of attrition, which Assad and Nasrallah have both declared.
Hizballah’s Deputy
Secretary Sheikh Naim Qassem said Friday that President Assad is
absolutely serious about opening a front against Israel from the Golan.
It only remains to be done, he said. “Syria is fully capable of
implementing this decision on its own. If necessary, we’ll help, but
it’s up to Syria.”
As a bonus, Nasrallah’s
expanded intervention in the Syria war assures him that the advanced
weapons - whose transfer into the Lebanese terrorist group's hands
Israel has vowed to prevent – will in fact be handed over on Syrian
soil.
Friday, May 24,
DEBKAfile disclosed that two competing terrorist movements, Shiite
Hizballah and Sunni al Qaeda, were pouring troops into Syria, while US
Secretary of State John Kerry remained focused an the elusive
Israel-Palestinian peace process.
After spending 48 hours
in Jerusalem and Ramallah, trying to talk Israeli and Palestinian
leaders into reviving the long-stalled Middle East peace process, US
Secretary of State John Kerry’s exit line Friday, May 24, was: “We’re
getting toward a time now when hard decisions need to be made”.
That was all he had to
say about Israel's comments on US proposals on the subject as unworkable
and the Palestinian view that American ideas were still unformed and
conditions for reviving talks non-existent.
In any case, the Syrian
crisis hurtling forward heedless of its disastrous potential for its
neighbors is fully exercising their leaders’ attention at this time and
confronting them with much more urgent “hard decisions.”
The Secretary himself
had just come from a Friends of Syria meeting Thursday in Amman, which
was attended by a sparse 11 members compared with the original 80. The
meeting ended with a demand that the international conference on Syria,
which Kerry is trying to convene in Geneva in the first week of June in
partnership with Russia, will not accept Assad regime representatives
with blood on their hands.
Moscow took exception to
this demand Friday by means of a Russian Foreign Ministry statement
that Syria has agreed in principle to participate in the conference, but
obstacles to a date were still raised by the Syrian opposition.
It can’t therefore be
said that Washington and Moscow see eye to eye on the key issues of
Syrian representation at the conference they are jointly sponsoring.
The US still insists
that Bashar Assad must go before a political solution can be broached,
while Russia continues to champion and arm him.
The most conspicuous
feature of Kerry’s current Middle East tour is the strong dichotomy
between his public statements and mission and the events taking place in
the real world around him.
DEBKAfile analysts
assign this gap between the Secretary’s perceptions and reality to US
President Barack Obama’s own evasiveness on the “hard decisions” he
needs to take for determining the level of US involvement in the acute
crises shaking this highly volatile region.
This was evident in the
speech he delivered Thursday, March 23, in which he stressed the effort
to pull the United States away from its inclusive “post 9/11 war on
terror” and “return to normalcy.”
He said “lethal force [such as drones] will only be used against targets who pose a continuing imminent threat to Americans.”
Obama’s message was
totally unrelated to the rising militancy of the two most virulent
Islamic terrorist movements of the present day.
As he spoke, Al Qaeda,
on the one hand, and the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah, on the other,
continued to pour fighting strength into Syria and feed the flames of a
calamitous civil war which has claimed more than 80,000 lives in a
little more than two years.
Our military sources
report that Hizballah brigades are forming up with the Syrian army for
their next decisive battle, after their al-Qusayr victory, for the
capture of the northern city of Homs; Al Qaeda jihadis are streaming
across the border from Iraq to cement rebel control of the Deir a-Zor
region of eastern Syria.
The aggressive actions
of both Hizballah and al Qaeda in Syria are outside the bounds of the US
president’s revised objectives for the US war on terror – hence, the
rationale for US non-involvement in any part of the Syrian conflict.
At the same time, both
these movements are at war, declared or undeclared, on Israel, Turkey,
Lebanon and Jordan. Their destabilizing impact extends to the
Palestinian Authority in Ramallah too.
In terms of timing and
immediacy, therefore, the ”hard decisions” John Kerry called for are
right outside the current Middle East context. Israel’s leaders must
decide urgently how to address Syria’s headlong descent into more
bloodshed at a time that Iran, Russia, Al Qaeda and Hizballah are in
charge of events.
The initiative led by
the US Secretary of State and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for
an international conference to hammer out a political solution for the
Syrian crisis in no way slowed its momentum.
Israel’s leaders might
perhaps best be advised to prioritize attention to determining how best
to handle the perils looming from Syria ahead of Kerry’s bid for a
return to talks with the Palestinians.
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