Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah Refutes National Security Adviser’s Remarks on PM’s House Targeting – Statement

 Dec 1 , 2021

Translated by Al-Ahed News

Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah [Hezbollah Brigades] issued a statement refuting the remarks made by the Iraqi National Security Adviser regarding the incident in which the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was targeted.

The statement released by the resistance group read the following:

Security personnel, politicians and ambassadors of major countries know that the attack against al-Kadhimi’s residence was fabricated.

Al-Kadhimi was not in his residence when the fabricated explosion occurred.

We demand proof via camera footage of Al-Kadhimi’s presence in his residence when the fabricated explosion occurred.

We demand that footage from six cameras inside the residence be played showing the moment the missile fell inside it

National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji confirmed the use of C4, but the technicians know that it is not used in this type of missile.

Where are the testimonies of the residents next door, “and are they trustworthy”?

The encrypted messages from the victim’s surrounding and the perpetrators will not intimidate even the children of the Resistance fighters.

Where are the radar images of the American planes that were present and surveilling Al-Khadra at the moment of the explosion?

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Crimes without Punishment – Ever

 November 25, 2021

A protest against US military aid to Israel. (Photo: File)

– Jeremy Salt taught at the University of Melbourne, at Bosporus University in Istanbul and Bilkent University in Ankara for many years, specializing in the modern history of the Middle East. Among his recent publications is his 2008 book, The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press). He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle. 

What a chamber of horrors the third millennium has been so far in the Middle East, without even a quarter of it having passed.  Iraq, Syria and Yemen on a scale unimaginable even at the high point of imperialism in the 19^th century. An estimated 300 children under five dying every day in Yemen from malnutrition, Palestinians shot dead in their occupied country every day, Lebanon and Syria slowly strangled by US sanctions, Iran threatened with military destruction and the revelation of yet another massacre by the US, in Syria, where “about” 70 women and children were killed at Baghuz by bombs dropped one after the other to make sure that no-one escaped.

There is no suggestion that anyone should be punished for yet another ‘mistake.’  This is where thousands of years of drawing up covenants to make the world a safer place have ended up:  back where we started,  the law of the jungle.

This is what the guardians of ‘western civilization’ have given to the world just in the past three decades:

Two wars on Iraq, the ‘cradle of civilization’ shattered by the cradle of a violent hamburger junk culture, millions killed or displaced. Libya, the most developed country in Africa, pulled up by its roots, uncounted thousands killed, the leader of its 1969 revolution slaughtered as Hillary Clinton cackled with glee like one of the witches around the cauldron in  Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. Syria torn to pieces, ancient cities and markets destroyed, and half a million killed. In Yemen, more than 230,000 dead, with 43 percent of prematurely born babies dying because of the lack of medical equipment and a genocidal famine – 75 percent of children are suffering from acute malnutrition –  continuing even as fresh supplies of weaponry are dropped off in the Saudi kingdom by the US and Britain. Iran,  Syria and Lebanon targeted with economic sanctions: in occupied Palestine, in Syria and in Iran the Zionist state continues its murderous march through history.

Not one of the global criminals responsible for these massive crimes against humanity has been punished.  They play golf or roam the world picking up millions for their speaking engagements and their ‘philanthropic’ foundations. Not one word of contrition or remorse has been spoken by any of them for the lives they have ended or ruined. Not even the death of children has forced admission of guilt out of them.  Others have been punished for lesser crimes but not this gang. They are completely remorseless.

Imagine the reaction if these crimes were committed in Europe and white people were being slaughtered or driven out of their homes, out of their countries and drowning in their thousands as they tried to escape across the seas.

Well, between 1939-45 it did happen and those responsible were hanged at Nuremberg. We have no Nuremberg now but we do have an International Criminal Court (ICC) which does punish the architects of war crimes and crimes against humanity – as long as their skin is the right color. With the exception of pale-skinned Balkan Serbs charged after the breakup of Yugoslavia, all those hauled before the ICC have been brown or black.

The tsunami of death and destruction which began rolling across the region when Napoleon landed in Egypt in 1798 shows no sign of receding.  Almost no country from the Atlantic coast of West Africa down to the Arab Gulf has avoided being swamped by it and many have been swamped several times.

The prime beneficiary of all of the above in the past century has been the settler state implanted in Palestine after 1918. Israel is the heart and soul of US foreign policy. Indeed, US foreign policy is no more than the Stars and Stripes draped over the interests of the Zionist state.

Take Iran as an example. After the death of Ayatullah Khumayni, Presidents Rafsanjani and Khatami sought to repair relations with the US. They offered investment concessions, diplomatic rapprochement and a political pathway into a region of critical interest, central Asia. Iranian society is conservative and God-fearing, rather like the US itself, but as long as Rafsanjani and Khatami refused to drop Iran’s righteous defense of the Palestinians, nothing else counted. Even in the ‘moderate’ Khatami’s time, economic sanctions were tightened, paving the way for the election of the ‘hardliner,’ Mahmud Ahmedinejad.

The attempted strangulation of Iran and Syria through war, assassination and sanctions necessarily involves Lebanon, Hezbollah’s home base.  Since the 1980s Hezbollah has successfully fought off all attempts by Israel – backed to the hilt by the US of course –  to destroy it.  Far from being weakened, Hezbollah has gone from strength to strength, militarily and as a Lebanese political party. The lesson learned by the US and Israel is just that they have to try harder,  to tear Lebanon apart if that is what it takes to destroy Hezbollah.

The latest provocation through Israel’s agents took place in Beirut on October 14, in the predominantly Shia neighborhood of Chiyah, bordering predominantly Maronite Christian Ain Rummaneh, where the ‘bus massacre’ of 27 Palestinians on April 13, 1975, was the trigger pulled to start the civil war.

This time snipers positioned on rooftops shot at Amal and Hezbollah supporters as they moved towards the Palace of Justice in Al Tayouneh to hold a vigil calling for the removal of Tariq al Bitar as the judge appointed to investigate the Beirut port explosion on August 5, 2020, on the grounds that he is running a heavily politicized inquiry heading towards a preordained conclusion, that this was a crime committed by Hezbollah.

Holding Hezbollah or Syria responsible for the crimes they have not committed was first tried after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005. Initially, four ‘pro-Syrian’ generals were imprisoned for four years before an international tribunal took over the prosecution and released them for lack of evidence. It immediately pointed the finger at Hezbollah, eventually finding one person, Salim Ayyash, guilty of “involvement” on the sole basis of tapped phone calls made through communications networks known to have been completely penetrated and manipulated by the Zionist state.

The tribunal cleared Hezbollah’s leadership. What this actually means is that if the leadership did not order the assassination, no senior figure in the movement would have carried it out.   Nasrallah and Hariri had differences but a good working relationship and it is virtually unthinkable that Nasrallah would ever have sanctioned such a heinous act.

The only beneficiaries of this monstrous act were the US, Israel and their agents in Lebanon.  Syria was embarrassed internationally and had to withdraw its remaining forces from the Bika’a valley. Lebanon was thrown into the chaos that gave birth to the rise of the anti-Syrian/pro-Saudi, US and Israel March 14 alliance.

Hezbollah produced intercepted reconnaissance footage showing that Israel had been tracking Hariri with drones wherever he went for years and was flying an AWACS plane and another reconnaissance aircraft over Beirut at the precise time of the assassination.  One of its agents had been located at the scene of the killing only the day before.   None of this circumstantial evidence was ever followed up by the tribunal.    Israel and the US have shed buckets of blood in Lebanon over many decades, have between them committed the most atrocious crimes, but the tribunal never even considered them as suspects.

The snipers waiting on the top of apartment buildings in Tayouneh on October 14 killed seven people, one a woman shot dead in her own home. Not just on rooftops, however, but on the ground, the demonstrators were surrounded by militiamen waiting to ambush them with guns, knives and even rocks.   Despite denials by Samir Geagea (Ja’ja), the head of the fascist/sectarian Maronite Christian Lebanese Forces (LF), the armed men were clearly LF and acting on his orders.   Of the 19 arrested, several quickly implicated him.

Geagea is one of the most murderous individuals in Lebanese history, which says a lot given the bloody track record of many others. During the civil war (1976-1989) he killed rivals within his own Maronite Christian ranks as well as Palestinians and other enemies outside them.  In 1994 he was sentenced to four life sentences for the assassinations of former Prime Minister Rashid Karameh (1987), National Liberal Party leader Dany Chamoun (1990), Falangist (Kata’ib) head Elias al Zayek (1990) and the attempted assassination of Defence Minister Michel Murr (1991).  In 1978 he and Elie Hobeika, at the behest of Bashir Gemayel, then head of the Falangists, led 1200 men in an attack on the north Lebanon family home of Tony Frangieh, leader of the Maronite Marada (Giants) faction.  Geagea was wounded and had to be taken away before Frangieh, his wife and three-year-old daughter were killed.

In the 1990 attack, Dany Chamoun’s wife and two of his sons were also killed.   If there is any poetic justice in any of this shedding of blood – including entirely innocent blood – it lies in the 1982 assassination of Bashir Gemayel and the car bombing murder in 2002 of Elie Hobeika, Israel’s leading henchman in the Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982.

Geagea himself served eleven years of four life sentences before being released under amnesty after the assassination of Hariri and allowed to take up the leadership of the LF. His brutality is a powerful weapon in the hands of Israel and the US, whose ambassador, Dorothy Shea, has been open in her interference in Lebanese politics.

US economic sanctions against Lebanon have one primary target, Hezbollah; one secondary target, Syria; and one-third target, Iran. How many Christians die defending ‘Christian Lebanon’ is not an issue for the US and Israel any more than the number of Muslims who die fighting them.  All they want is the chaos that will further their ambitions.  They tore Lebanon apart before and they will do it again, mercilessly, ruthlessly, callously, without a care for the innocent blood of thousands that will be shed.

Whatever cause Samir Geagea thinks he is serving, the piecemeal destruction of Lebanon, indeed of the entire Middle East, is primarily about the protection of Israel.  However, Israel is not as safe as it used to be or it might think it still is. It is confronted by enemies who have not backed off one meter from the struggle to liberate Palestine.  Israel has tried hard to destroy them. Up to now, it has failed, so it is getting ready to try again. While planning/contingency planning is a constant, Israel now appears to be actively preparing for a massive military strike that would target  Iran’s nuclear plants and missile capacity.

In September the Zionist chief of staff, Avi Kohavi, said plans for such a strike had been “greatly accelerated.” The military has been given an additional $1.5 billion to buy aircraft, drones and ‘bunker buster’ bombs that would probably include the USAF’s new 5000 lb. (2,267 kg.) GRU-72 Advanced 5k Penetrator, which would be aimed at Iran’s underground nuclear installations. Anticipating a simultaneous war with Hezbollah, Israel has also been carrying out extensive military exercises in northern occupied Palestine, coordinated with all emergency civil services to deal with an expected crisis on the domestic front once the missiles start falling. Israel is clearly planning for a big war, and can be expected to throw everything into this attempt to crush its principal enemies once and for all.

Unlike the white settlers in South Africa, the Zionist leadership sees no writing on the wall, no indications that history is not on their side even as it builds up against them.  No more than Netanyahu does Naftali Bennett have any intention of giving anything back to the Palestinians except the smallest fragments of municipal responsibility. Like Netanyahu, he sees no need to negotiate, no need to give anything away.  Why would he, when in the last resort Israel even has nuclear weapons to destroy its enemies? This is the question to which there can be no answer until the day comes when Israel faces the reality that even its conventional weapons are not sufficient to destroy its enemies.

All appearances to the contrary, unlimited US economic and military support has been a curse for Israel. It has created the illusion of power. Israel is like a plant with shallow roots. Only as long as the US keeps watering it, can the plant thrive. There is no permanent, unbreakable bond between states and all appearances to the contrary, there never will be between Israel and the US. Slowly, Americans are waking up and Israel’s incessant pleading is already beginning to fall on deaf ears, as the public becomes more aware of Israel’s criminality and as congressmen and women (mainly women) are emboldened to speak out. The time may come when the US can no longer afford Israel. The time may come when public opinion has changed to allow a US government to treat Israel as it treats other states.

US economic and military aid has had the same effect on Israel as steroids have on a bodybuilder. The 97-lb weakling is now the neighborhood bully swaggering down the street with pumped-up muscles. He smacks people around or they run in fright but Hezbollah and Iran are not running. They are standing firm and preparing to defend themselves. In any case, in the next war, Israel will take damage it has never experienced before, to the point where so many Jewish Israelis will just want to get out that Israel as a Zionist state is likely to crumble from within and die of its own contradictions.  Is this what it is going to take for peace to become possible?

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Resistance Forces In The ME Stronger Than Ever, But Not If You Read Western-Gulf Media

24 Nov, 2021

Source: Al Mayadeen Net

Robert Inlakesh

The media establishment controlled by Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Western corporate elites is attempting to mislead supporters of the regional resistance and make them turn on the groups they currently support.

As the regional ‘Axis of Resistance’ to Western hegemony in the Middle East advances on multiple fronts, a desperate attempt is being made by Western and Arab reactionary regime media outlets, to portray the alliance, led by Iran, as being on its last legs.

Iran currently leads a successful alliance of forces, including; Ansarallah in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the PMU in Iraq, among many others. Although Washington puts on that its primary concern about the Islamic Republic of Iran is its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons, its regional alliance is what truly bothers policymakers in the US beyond all other considerations. This regional alliance, dubbed the ‘Axis of Resistance’, is what makes Iran an impossible target for war and all attempts to weaken its cross-border presence have been tried and so far failed. 

The latest in attempts to dislodge Iran from its allies is in fact coming in the form of media psyops, designed to inflame local tensions in places like Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. In Iraq, as a clear example of such attempts to stir division is the narrative that is pushed by Western, Persian Gulf regime media, that seeks to paint Iraq as shifting away from groups allied with Tehran.

One of the biggest challenges to the US, preventing it from reigning supreme over Iraq, is the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU). After becoming the Iraqi ground force to rid the country of Daesh and Al-Qaeda terrorists, the PMU gained huge credibility for its efforts and later began to focus its attention on expelling the US from their country, especially in the wake of the 2020 drone strikes which killed leading PMU commanders such as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, along with Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani. A vote in the Iraqi parliament that year did in fact conclude that the US be ordered out by the government in Baghdad.

Whilst the Iraqi parliament once had a large presence of the PMU-aligned Fateh bloc, who were democratically elected by the Iraqi people, this October saw a dramatic decrease in the seats won by the Fateh Alliance; from 48 seats in 2018 to 16 seats in the recent election. This was instantly pounced upon by Western media and their allied media outlets in the Middle East. The election was called to be fraudulent by the likes of Kataeb Hezbollah and Asaeb Ahl Al-Haq, with claims being widely made of UAE interference in the democratic process. 

But for the sake of argument, let’s put aside the claims of the PMU – about election rigging – and just look at what the results actually show. The Western and Arab reactionary regimes media-machine are using the dramatic drop in seats to corroborate their claims that Iraqis are shifting politically and are turning on the PMU. On the surface, 16 seats out of a 329-member parliament seem pretty damning, especially when the leading Sadrist movement won 74 seats. However, instead of delving deeper into this issue, the media of the empire stop there, because when you look at the popular votes, their narrative begins to look rather ridiculous. So, yes the PMU lost a large number of seats, but when we compare their popular vote count to that of the leading party, headed by Moqtada al-Sadr, these claims of a massive drop in support for the PMU are debunked entirely. The PMU aligned parties of the Fateh alliance won a total of 470,000 votes, meaning that they actually won the popular vote over the Sadrists who received 450,000 votes. The reason why the seats were lost was not due to a lack of support, in fact, they are the most popular in parliament, instead, it came down to the amendments made to the electoral system in Iraq. 

Additionally PMU ally, Nouri al-Maliki, won an astounding victory, this is to go along with other parties who are favorable to the PMU also winning seats. So the narrative that Iran and its allies are losing in Iraq is just a lie.

Then came the attempted assassination of Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, earlier this month. Instantly, media outlets belonging to Saudi Arabia, such as al-Hadath, and other media groups operating out of the United Arab Emirates, reported in a way which would make it seem like the PMU were responsible. Although Kataeb Hezbollah and Asaeb Ahl Al-Haq have been widely blamed for the assassination attempt, using three drones to do so, they themselves have denied it and pointed to irregularities indicating an American role in the attack. Most notably, the PM’s residence is based in Baghdad’s US Embassy ‘Greenzone’, which is protected by C-RAM air defense systems and has a relatively effective siren system. It wasn’t until explosions were heard, resulting from the drone attack, that the sirens went into effect and the C-RAM systems were never used to confront the threat.

With the assassination attempt, coupled with the loss of seats for the Fateh Alliance, a stream of stories ranging from Al-Arabiya, to Politico and the Telegraph, began producing pieces on Iran’s alleged weighing influence in Iraq and the fall of support for the PMU. But as we established above, the election example is completely invalid and in the case of the PMU being accused of attempting to assassinate PM Kadhimi, there is no proof. So ultimately there is no proof whatsoever of their claims.

If we then turn to Yemen, the Ansarallah movement is rapidly gaining ground in the northern, resource-rich, Marib area. The advance of the Yemeni resistance against the Saudi-backed forces of Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has been steady, despite deadly airstrikes from the Saudi coalition. But if you turn to Western media and the media establishment in Saudi Arabia or the UAE, you would be made to believe that Ansarallah isn’t gaining territory at all.

Furthermore, if we take the example of Hezbollah inside of Lebanon, after the mass shooting of unarmed demonstrators by the Lebanese Forces, resulting in the deaths of 7 innocents in mid-October, the group could have easily been dragged into civil war. The situation could have been very different, but Hezbollah kept the peace and despite the severe economic crisis in Lebanon, the resistance group has not buckled under the pressure. Instead of reacting irrationally, Hezbollah has provided co-ops for the Lebanese people and has brought in fuel, whilst making it very clear to the groups’ enemies that they are ready to defend themselves. 

After liberating most of southern Lebanon from the Zionist army in 2000, later defeating the occupation’s military in 2006, Hezbollah has only grown in its strength and according to its Secretary-General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, now possesses a military structure of over 100,000 fully trained and armed men.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Regimes have recently attempted to squeeze Lebanon, by cutting off diplomatic ties and trade, over a comment made by Lebanon’s Minister of Information, George Kordahi, prior to him assuming office. With this, Gulf Regimes have used their media to coordinate a dis-information war against Hezbollah, after failing all other attempts to weaken it domestically.

Saudi Arabia’s broadcaster al-Hadath, owned by al-Arabiya, has also been producing outrageous propaganda, claiming that the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has kicked out the Iranian Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander, Javad Ghaffari, for so-called violations of Syrian sovereignty, in order to sow division between supporters of the two-sides. Yet, Javad Ghaffari was rotated weeks prior to the claims of Saudi media and it was said to have been an Iranian decision. 

In all, the media establishment controlled by Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Western corporate elites is attempting to mislead supporters of the regional resistance and make them turn on the groups they currently support. This is simply a last-ditch attempt to attack the Axis of Resistance after a long-term failed campaign, which has only damaged the civilian populations residing in the countries of the resistance, whereas the parties and armed groups maintain their power. 

The opinions mentioned in this article do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Al mayadeen, but rather express the opinion of its writer exclusively.

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المنازلة مع العدو داخل لبنان وعلى حدوده

 

الأربعاء 24 تشرين الثاني 2021

الأخبار

ابراهيم الأمين

«في خضم «معارك الأيام العشرة» في يوليو 1948: قال ديفيد بن غوريون: يجب أن تنتهي الحرب بمثل هذا القصف لدمشق وبيروت والقاهرة، حتى لا يعود لديهم أي رغبة في تحدّينا [في] الحرب وصنع السلام معنا. وأوضح أنه يجب أن نكتسب قلب العرب، وبطريقة واحدة فقط يمكننا تعليمهم احترامنا. إذا لم نقصف القاهرة فسيعتقدون أن بإمكانهم نسف تل أبيب».

(من محضر اجتماع 11 يوليو 1948، المحفوظ في أرشيف الكيان الإسرائيلي، دولة بأي ثمن – قصة حياة ديفيد بن غوريون، 2018, p.416).

قبلت إسرائيل بقواعد اللعبة مع حزب الله في لبنان. لا عمليات عسكرية أو حتى أمنية تؤدي إلى سقوط عناصر أو كوادر من الحزب. وقررت، بناء على ذلك، الطلب إلى أجهزتها العملانية، الاستخباراتية والتنفيذية، ابتداع وسائل تتيح لها تحقيق المطلوب من دون ترك أثر. لكنها أعطت نفسها حق القيام بما هو أكثر في ساحات أخرى. لدى العدو وحدة مستقلة تعمل على حزب الله. تطارده في لبنان وخارجه. في كل ساحة، تضع إسرائيل تصوراً خاصاً لمواجهة الحزب. وغالباً، يبرر العدو أعماله بـ«الإجراء الوقائي» لاعتقاد قيادة العدو بأن الحزب يسعى إلى إيقاع الضرر بإسرائيل، إما انتقاماً لعمليات اغتيال أو كرد على رسائل لا يعرف الجمهور الكثير عنها.

في سوريا والعراق ومناطق أخرى، يركز العدو على عمل أكثر مباشرة، لأن الخطر بالنسبة إليه في لبنان، يتعلق بعملية لوجستية – أمنية – عسكرية. بمعنى أدق، يسعى العدو إلى توجيه ضربات مباشرة للحزب في مجال تعزيز قدراته العسكرية ولا سيما الصاروخية منها. والتعديل الذي قبلت به إسرائيل، في سوريا كما في العراق، هو أنها ملزمة بعمليات «نظيفة». أي أن على قواتها تجنب التعرض لعناصر المقاومة أو كوادرها خلال أي عمل أمني أو عسكري. لذلك، يعمد العدو في حالات كثيرة إلى إبلاغ الروس مسبقاً أنه في صدد توجيه ضربة جوية إلى هذا الموقع أو تلك الآلية، ليتولى الروس إبلاغ السوريين أو الإيرانيين، أو حتى حزب الله مباشرة، لتجنّب وقوع خسائر بشرية. وفي حالات أخرى، يوجّه العدو طلقات تحذيرية لدفع عناصر الحزب إلى مغادرة مركز أو عربة قبل ضربها بقليل. ووصل الأمر في بعض الحالات إلى إيجاد وسائل اتصال تقني تتيح له الطلب من عناصر الحزب مغادرة نقطة معيّنة لأنها ستتعرض للضرب.

لكن، في كلا الحالتين، لا يمكن للعدو الوقوف مكتوف الأيدي إزاء ما يسميه «برنامج تعاظم القدرات لدى حزب الله»، كما هي الحال مع قوات الحرس الثوري الإيراني أو فصائل المقاومة العراقية في سوريا أو العراق، لأن لدى العدو برنامجاً آخر اسمه «منع تمركز إيران في المناطق القريبة». والعدو، هنا، يجبر نفسه على خيارات عملانية من النوع الصعب والمعقّد، بما في ذلك القيام بعمليات أمنية بالغة الحساسية خلف خطوط العدو لتوجيه ضربات مباشرة، نوعية أو وهمية. لكنه يقوم بما يريد من خلال إبلاغ إيران وحلفائها في المنطقة بأن إسرائيل لن تقف متفرجة على ما يحصل بالقرب منها.

إسرائيل تدعم الفتنة الداخلية لعجزها عن حرب واسعة والمقاومة ترفض الفتنة لكنها لن تكبّل نفسها بالصمت والموت

وإذا كان لدى العدو برنامج عمل يستهدف فقط ضرب المقاومة في لبنان أو سوريا أو العراق، أو حتى إيران، فإنه ينظر بقلق إلى تطورين بارزين في السنوات الأخيرة. الأول يتصل بواقع المقاومة في فلسطين وخصوصاً بعد معركة «سيف القدس» وتطور علاقة المقاومة في فلسطين مع محور المقاومة الذي تقوده إيران ويفعّله حزب الله. والثاني يتعلق بما يجري في اليمن. إذ يتصرف العدو بأن ما يحصل في هذا البلد ليس سوى عملية بناء لقدرات صار مضطراً لأن يضعها في الحسبان، ليس لكونها في يد قوة معادية فقط، بل لكون هذه القوة تعلن جهاراً أنها جزء من معركة تحرير فلسطين. أضف إلى ذلك أن العدو يعرف معنى أن يتحول اليمن قاعدة متماسكة في قلب محور المقاومة. وهو اكتشف، خلال مواجهة «سيف القدس»، أن «أنصار الله» في اليمن، اتخذوا خطوات عملانية وأبدوا استعداداً للدخول في الحرب متى اقتضى الأمر. ورصدت استخبارات العدو اتصالات بين فصائل المقاومة في لبنان وفلسطين وبين «أنصار الله» تضمّنت معطيات يدرك العدو أن فيها ما يؤذيه في ما لو دخل اليمنيون في الحرب. ولذلك، اضطر، للمرة الأولى منذ عقود طويلة، إلى إعادة تفعيل قيادة الجبهة الجنوبية التي أقفلت منذ الاتفاق مع مصر والأردن.

عملياً، ليس بيد العدو اليوم سوى النظر في وسائل محاصرة المقاومة في لبنان وبقية المواقع. صحيح أن جيش الاحتلال لا يتوقف عن التدريب على حرب واسعة تشمل جبهات عدة، لكنه يتصرف بحذر شديد مع الجبهة الشمالية، وهو يعي تماماً أن قدرات المقاومة في لبنان أو سوريا أو حتى العراق ليست من النوع الذي يقارن بما هو موجود في قطاع غزة. كما أن الهشاشة التي ظهرت بها جبهته الداخلية جراء تساقط صواريخ المقاومة الفلسطينية في أيار الماضي، تشي بمخاطر لا قدرة له على ضبط نتائجها ولا حدودها، فكيف وهو مضطر لأن يتصرف على قاعدة أن المقاومة في لبنان يمكنها ليس فقط إطلاق الصواريخ بطرق مختلفة، بل استخدام أنواع من الأسلحة الفتاكة على أكثر من صعيد، إضافة إلى احتمال قيام المقاومة بعمل هجومي يستهدف السيطرة على مناطق في الجليل الأعلى، وهو ما لم يكن يعتقد بأنه سيأتي يوم يضطر للتعامل مع هذا الأمر كاحتمال حقيقي، وهذا ما يوجب على العدو اللجوء إلى وسائل أخرى في مواجهة المقاومة في قلب لبنان.

في هذا السياق، ينبغي النظر إلى جانب من الأزمة اللبنانية. صحيح أن المشكلة هنا لا تتعلق حصراً بالمساعي الإسرائيلية، وأن اللبنانيين عموماً، وبينهم حلفاء للمقاومة، يتحملون مسؤولية الخراب الداخلي. لكن ما يجب عدم التغافل عنه، ولو رفض لبنانيون ذلك، هو أن سعي مجموعات لبنانية، بدعم من دول عربية وجهات غربية، لأن يكون ملف المقاومة هو عنوان المواجهة الداخلية، لا يمكن عزله عن المشروع الإسرائيلي. ولا ضير هنا من اتهام هذه المجموعات بأنها تقوم بعمل يخدم فعلياً العدو، ويجب قول هذا الكلام صراحة حتى ولو اعتبره البعض اتهاماً له بالخيانة، علماً أن «لاجئي الإمارات» من اللبنانيين توقفوا عن الخداع والمداراة وصاروا يتحدثون علناً عن «خطأ عدم اللحاق بركب السلام مع إسرائيل».

وفق هذا المنطق، يجب النظر إلى المرحلة الجديدة من المواجهة الداخلية القائمة، سواء في ما خص عمل الحكومات أو الانتخابات النيابية أو السياسات الاقتصادية والمالية، وصولاً إلى العلاقات الخارجية للبنان. والجديد هنا، أنه مثلما لا يهتم الأميركيون والغربيون وبعض العرب بالعمل في وضح النهار ضد المقاومة، مستفيدين من وجود مرتزقة لبنانيين يطلقون على أنفسهم ألقاباً تحت مسمى السياديين، فإن على هؤلاء الأخذ في الاعتبار أن المقاومة باتت مضطرة للتشهير بهم علناً، وأن هذا التشهير لا يمكن وضعه في خانة التحضير لعمل أكبر، لكنه إجراء بديهي وعادي إزاء من يعمل على تهيئة المناخ لحروب أهلية جديدة في لبنان. ومثلما تتمسك المقاومة بخيارها تحمل الضغوط وعدم الانجرار إلى حرب أهلية، فهي تتمسك بحقها في الدفاع عن نفسها في مواجهة هذه المجموعات ومشغّليها بمعزل عن طبيعتها وعناوينها وحجمها وطريقة عملها.

لبنان اليوم مقبل على مستوى جديد من المواجهة. وإذا كان بيننا من يستعد لمغامرات متجاهلاً حقائق التاريخ، فإن بيننا أيضاً من يهتم للحفاظ على مكتسبات معارك التحرير في الجنوب وسوريا وحتى الداخل. وهذا الاهتمام بات يوجب علينا، في لحظة الحسم، الاستعداد للمنازلة الكبرى مع هؤلاء، بقسوة لا تقودنا حتماً إلى المواجهة التي يريدون. إنها لعبة تتطلب، إلى جانب الهدوء والصبر، الكثير من الحكمة والذكاء والفعالية، وهي عناصر خبرناها مرات ومرات عند المقاومة وجمهورها خلال أربعة عقود، ولا نزال.

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$1.25 Billion, ISIS Annual Revenue from Stolen Syrian and Iraqi Oil

  ARABI SOURI NOVEMBER 15, 2021

“ISIL (ISIS – DAESH) was getting stronger, Daesh was threatening the possibility of going to Damascus, we know that this was growing, we were watching, we saw that Daesh was growing in strength, and we thought that Assad was threatened, we thought, however, that we can probably manage that Assad might then negotiate, instead of negotiating we’ve got Putin supporting Assad.” Former US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a leaked audio recording.

“We created Al Qaeda then we left the mess for the Pakistanis to deal with them” Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a congressional hearing.

“The problem is in our allies, they were arming and funding everyone who wanted to fight Assad.” Former Vice President of the USA, currently President of the same USA Joe Biden said during a foreign policy address at Harvard University in September 2014.

“We will keep the oil, I like oil, let the others fight terrorism, I like oil.” Former US President Donald Trump.

‘When I was appointed as the financial controller of ISIS and moved to Raqqa from Iraq, there were 250 million dollars in cash and 3000 kilograms of gold stored in houses and tunnels in the city. We were selling the oil from the wells under our control in Iraq and most of them in Syria to petrol stations, factories, and merchants, and the rest we were exporting them, we were selling the oil for 180 dollars/tonne, which brought us 1.25 billion US dollars a year.’ Deputy Commander of ISIS Sami Jassim Al-Jabouri.

The above is part of the confessions of the ISIS Deputy Commander and its former financial controller Sami Jassim Al-Jabouri, aka among his ‘colleagues as ‘Hajji Hamed,’ which were published by the Iraqi news agency INA.

Sami Al-Jabouri was detained by the Iraqi Security Forces in a ‘complex external operation’ a little over a month ago, his arrest was announced by Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi on October 11, 2021.

The war on Syria for the past 10.5 years was about everything else but saving the Syrian people, spreading democracy, or promoting freedoms; you name it, it was in their agenda: Protecting Israel to build the anti-Christ kingdom as per the Zionist and Evangelical Church beliefs, extending a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe to bypass Iran and Russia and strangle their economies, deprive China of any access to the Mediterranean through West Asia, stealing the oil, stealing the water, stealing the food, mainly wheat, stealing Syria’s factories, then moving to the next countries on the list.

“If we didn’t go to fight the terrorists in Syria, we would have had to fight the terrorists in Russia.” President of Russia Vladimir Putin repeated several times since Oct 30, 2015.

John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden and their allies are not in prison, the first one is preaching the world on ‘climate change’ and the ‘need to reduce carbon emissions’ while traveling in his private jet and attending with his president a summit using a motorcade of 85 vehicles, the second, despite being part of or at least knowing about ‘one of the greatest hoaxes in journalism’ to smear the 3rd one in what was called the ‘Russian collusion’, she’s tweeting her congratulations to senator Patrick Leahy on his ‘long service’ because in the USA and all its cronies the politicians serve for decades but they want to see change in the countries they target, she’s also tweeting about some more acts deliberated, the 3rd one is busy launching his new platform and campaigning to strip two of the most credible [sic] US mainstream media outlets the New York Times and the Washington Post of their Pulitzer prizes because of their essential part in the 2nd’s conspiracy role against him, and the last one, we’re not sure he himself knows where he is.

Those politicians, the war criminals with their allies and their proxy terrorist groups agree on destroying the world one country at a time, Syria was too difficult for them to crack open, now they’re working hard on extending its suffering to strip its people the joy of celebrating their win on the world’s most vicious and super-rich terrorists ISIS, and its ilk, these same politicians do differ on everything else of no real value, just to entertain their sheeple who think they’re free and live in a real democracy.

The 1.25 billion US dollars that the US-created and sponsored ISIS terrorist group was earning are only from the proceeds of selling the stolen oil, this does not include the lootings, ransoms, racketeering, drug trafficking, human organs trafficking, white slavery, and all of that is not comparable to the billions in direct funding by the Gulfies and their NATO sponsors, mainly the US taxpayers, most of which were funneled by dropping weapons and other parcels ‘by mistake’ by the Pentagon to areas under ISIS control, programs to train ‘moderate terrorists’ who would join ISIS or fight on its side, and humanitarian aid sent by the different countries to areas under the control of ISIS and its brethren.

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اليمن وسورية يرسمان مستقبل المنطقة

 

الاثنبن 15 نوفمر 2021

ناصر قنديل

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يتراجع المشهدان اللبناني والعراقي إلى الخلف، نحو ربط نزاع في كل منهما مع أزمات مستعصية، ومحاولات فاشلة لتغيير موازين القوى بوجه محور المقاومة، ففي العراق فشلت محاولات التفجير على خلفية المجزرة التي ارتكبت بحق أنصار المقاومة المعترضين على نتائج الانتخابات بصورة سلمية، ثم فشلت محاولة التفجير على خلفية الاعتداء الذي تعرض له منزل رئيس وزراء العراق مصطفى الكاظمي، ونجحت إيران بشخص قائد فيلق القدس الجنرال إسماعيل قآني بتبريد الأجواء وجمع الكاظمي مع قادة فصائل المقاومة، لربط نزاع عنوانه، مواصلة الفرز لحسم نتائج الانتخابات قانوناً، ومواصلة التحقيق القضائي في مقتل المتظاهرين وحادث الاعتداء على منزل الكاظمي، واعتماد الحوار أساساً لحل الخلافات، وفي لبنان تجاوز الوضع خطر الإنزلاق نحو المواجهات الأهلية على خلفية مجزرة الطيونة، وخطر انهيار الحكومة على خلفية الأزمة السعودية مع لبنان والمطالبة باستقالة وزير الإعلام جورج قرداحي، وفي البلدين يبدو ربط نزاع على القضايا العالقة سيتكفل باستهلاك الشهرين المقبلين.

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خلال الشهور المقبلة وفي الطريق إلى القمة العربية في الربيع المقبل التي ستستضيفها الجزائر، تتسارع الأحداث على المسار السوري، خصوصاً في اتجاهين رئيسيين، الأول هو انسحاب القوات الأميركية الذي تزداد المؤشرات على قرب حدوثه، سواء لجهة الحراك العسكري الجاري في شمال شرقي سورية، أو لجهة الحراك السياسي للقيادة الكردية باتجاه دمشق، والحضور الروسي على الجبهتين العسكرية والسياسية لتسهيل قرار الانسحاب على الأميركي، أما الاتجاه الثاني فهو تسارع الخطوات الدبلوماسية نحو سورية لإنهاء المسار الذي بدأ مع الحرب عليها، وترتب بموجبه قطع العلاقات الدبلوماسية بينها وبين العديد من دول العالم، والدول العربية بصورة خاصة، وجاءت زيارة وزير خارجية الإمارات إلى دمشق وما سبقها وما رافقها إشارة لما سيليها، وما سيتضمن من تلاحق زيارات مشابهة تعترف بنصر سورية، وتفتح أمامها طريق استعادة دورها الدبلوماسي والسياسي على الساحة العربية الرسمية، التي ستتوج بحضور رئيسها لقمة الجزائر.

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بالتوازي مع تطورات المشهد السوري لصالح تعافي الدولة ونهوضها وعودتها إلى المشهد الرسمي العربي من موقع المنتصر من جهة، ومواصلة تقدم مؤسستها العسكرية في فرض حوضرها على المزيد من المناطق التي كانت خارج سيطرتها، يبدو اليمن على موعد مع تحولات كبرى يتسارع إيقاعها، بحيث تبدو المنطقة على موعد مع زلزال قادم من مأرب، بدأت تداعياته العسكرية في مشهد الساحل الغربي حيث جاءت الانسحابات العسكرية  للقوى المناوئة لأنصار الله والجيش واللجان، كترجمة للقلق من مرحلة ما بعد مأرب، وسط اتهامات متبادلة بين حلفاء السعودية والإمارات بمقايضات تمت تحت الطاولة مع أنصار الله، لضمان مستقبل ما بعد مأرب، وإذا كان ديفيد شنكر قد سبق الجميع بتوصيف انتصار أنصار الله في معركة مأرب بصفته حسماً للحرب في اليمن بأسوأ سيناريو ممكن بالنسبة لواشنطن والرياض، فإن من الصعوبة بمكان تخيل المشهد مع هذا الانتصار للأنصار، حيث التداعيات ستكون أكبر من مساحة اليمن وتترك ظلالها على المشهد الإقليمي كله، خصوصاً مع التساؤلات حول اليمن الجديد الذي سيولد من رحم هذا الانتصار، فاليمن أكبر دول الخليج بعدد السكان، الذي يزيد على عدد سكان دول الخليج مجتمعة، واليمن صاحب ثروة نفطية غير مستثمرة واعدة وهائلة، واليمن في موقع استراتيجي شديد الأهمية في منطقة النفط العالمية، وعلى عقدة خطوط التجارة العالمية، والممرات المائية الاستراتيجية في أمن الملاحة.

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يمكن تخيل ملامح الوضع العربي الجديد الناتج من الانسحاب الأميركي والصعود السوري والانتصار اليمني، اذا توقفنا عند النتائج المباشرة لهذه التحولات على لبنان والعراق، والتوازنات الجديدة في الخليج، وميزان القوى الجديد في الصراع بين محور المقاومة وكيان الإحتلال.

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