Commanders of the Hezbollah militia have claimed, in comments to the Daily Beast, that they are closely working with the Russian government, and that Russia is directly providing them with “heavy weapons” with no strings attached.
Hezbollah has been seen as hugely important to the battle on the ground in Syria, backing the Assad government, and reports that they were interested in pulling out of Syria right before Russia joined the war may be related, convincing Russia that they could “buy” continued Hezbollah involvement.
Syria has struggled to arm Hezbollah in the fight, however, with Israel regularly attacking Syrian military sites believed involved in the transfer. Israel is almost certain not to attempt that with Russia, though the Hezbollah commanders insisted that Russia did not forbid them from using the arms against Israel.
Details of what all they’re being given are unclear, but the Russian military is said to be having Hezbollah defend some of their arms depots in northwest, and basically giving Hezbollah the run of those depots to take what they need for the fight.
It’s a good idea to arm this group. They are the enemies of ISIS,
Considering the US is in fact directly arming Al Nusra formerly known as AL QAEDA with heavier weapons like TOW MISSILES, one cannot make the claim they are the only ones giving weapons to Terrorists, and of course then there is the Arab countries directly funding ISIS, but lets not forget that Israel is also using their hospitals to treat and return to the Battlefield those same AL NUSRA (AL QAEDA), they themselves are in fact giving aid to Terrorists! We should never forget that without the US initially giving aid and comfort to Al Qaeda in Iraq there would be NO ISIS, there would be no Millions of refugees in Europe, I fact go back far enough and there wouldn’t have been an Al Qaeda or Bin Ladin either the US was the ORIGINAL FUNDER of it all!
Hezbollah are not terrorists. Against all odds these men have fought off Israeli and American aggression against their people. Hezbollah didn’t even exist until Israel invaded Lebanon in the early 80s and began treating the local population like they do Palestinians. That is when the Southern Lebanon Shite community formed Hezbollah to drive the IDF out.
I wish more agreed with you about this. The American public has been told again and again that Hezbollah is just as much our enemy as it is Israel’s.
Excellent news 🙂 Once this is all over and the foreign-backed Wahabbi filth is exterminated, Hezbollah will have some nice toys to point at the Zionists…
Now why is it that my pacifist conviction of conscience sees this as the better of two evils? Could it be the reality that expansion and world domination by Empire USA, surely it is the extinction of humanity and the worse of all possible evils?
Arming Hezbollah to fight in Syria is not the same as arming Hezbollah to fight Israel. It involves very different weapons. Against Israel, the fears are about things that are useless in Syria, antiaircraft missiles and long range rockets.
“Details of what all they’re being given are unclear, but the Russian
military is said to be having Hezbollah defend some of their arms depots
in northwest”
Northwest Syria is well away from Israel. Hezbollah is not likely to initiate attacks inside Israel-proper (excluding Shebaa farms) nor the portion of the Golan Heights that Israel occupies. Likewise, Israel should best stay out of Lebanon. Its 18-year occupation of south Lebanon was stupid.
No Hezbollah spokesman is going to talk to a Neocon rag like the Daily Beast. The probability is the Daily Beast made the whole story up or they paid a stooge who pretended to be something they’re not. The Daily Beast tell loads of lies
Indeed. This looks like a story aimed at building up US/Israeli antagonism against Russia.
What then will be America/Zionist next move.
Most sensible thing that Russia is aiding Hezbollah
I am always amazed when idiot American politicians, who are almost all of them, call Hezbollah a terrorist organization, as if Hezbollah would exist even if Israel hadn’t occupied and bombed the hell out of Lebanon for decades.
This looks like a planted story designed to inflame US and Israeli antagonism towards Russia.
In reality the Russians don’t give away their weapons for free, they sell them. And they are less likely to be working with ultra-religious groups like Hezbollah and much more likely to be working with the secular/Arab nationalist Syrian government.