While the rhetoric in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict has remained bellicose as ever, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah offered secret assurances to Israel last year, according to leaked cables from Syria.
The assurances were delivered to Israel by way of Russia’s Foreign Ministry Department for the Middle East, which received the message through Syrian officials.
Nasrallah told the Israelis the Israel-Lebanon border was the “safest in the world” and that Hezbollah had no intention of attacking Israel, being far too busy with its involvement in the Syrian Civil War.
Israel has never publicly acknowledged such a message, and has repeatedly talked up the idea of an imminent war with Lebanon, launching multiple strikes along the border and blaming Hezbollah every time tensions flare, even when other, smaller factions claim credit for incidents.
BS, this kind of news you can only find in the Saudis’ garbage media 🙂
I'm sorry Jason, but this strikes me as disinformation.
Jason is at it again, This is a two year old story, Jason, it was published by you once again last year.
The source of this "leak", reported in an Israeli paper, is the Saudi London-based paper, al-Sharq al-Awsat, which is notoriously anti-Hezbollah and aims to tarnish the image of the resistance group at all times and at any cost. When HA doesn't respond to an Israeli attack immediately, AlSharq AlAwsat mocks it for not standing up to Israel; and when HA does respond, it accuses it of being reckless, driving the region to war.
Please keep this in mind
Israel will always be the boogey man in Hezbollah-Lebanon politics. The entire concept of "resistance" is built upon it, which is now enshrined in official Lebanese policy in the new Lebanese cabinet. Israel just follows the "Yalon" plan, which is to fragment and isolate enemy Islamic powers, and Syria is a crowning achievement if you like Pyrrhic victories.
Please look at the original source of the information, Asharq Al-Awsat, a
Saudi rag. It is an attempt to discredit Hez by stating that Saudi Arabia is not the only one collaborating with the Zionist entity.