The Hybrid War On Lebanon Is All About Weakening Hezbollah
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- Lebanon has endured constant attacks and pressure from Israel, America and their allies for decades, sometimes in the form of direct military confrontation and more recently through a hybrid war involving sanctions, propaganda, violent provocations, social media, western NGOs and embassies -- all to weaken Hezbollah.
To discuss all of this Rania Khalek is joined by researcher and journalist Julia Kassem, who has a masters degree from the American University of Beirut and is a contributor to the Al Akhbar, a widely circulated Lebanese leftist newspaper.
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TIME CODES
0:00 Intro
1:27 Hezbollah’s origins
5:41 The difference between Hezbollah and Amal
10:05 Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon
14:54 Hezbollah’s relationship with the left
22:09 The year 2000: Hezbollah expels Israel
25:32 2005: Hezbollah enters government, March 14 vs March 8
29:55 2006: Hezbollah defeats Israel, again!
37:20 US & Saudi Arabia embark on an anti-Shia crusade to weaken Hezbollah & Iran
41:16 Hezbollah enters the war in Syria
41:17 Hezbollah becomes a regional actor, in Syria, Iraq & Yemen
50:27 Saudi Arabia becomes the bigger threat
52:35 Maximum pressure and the October 2019 uprising
55:22 Why does Hezbollah ally with corrupt parties?
1:00:07 Why is Lebanon’s economy collapsing?
1:02:16 “Corruption” is the new “terrorism”
1:05:45 Western-funded NGOs, civil society & media
1:11:13 Politicizing the Beirut port blast investigation against Hezbollah
1:18:16 Does Hezbollah have an economic ideology?
1:27:32 Why is there a hybrid war on Lebanon?
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I am Ethiopian and I feel for Lebanon, beautiful country ❤. May God bring you peace and keep ur enemies away🙌❤🙏
Peace to you as well.
LONG LIVE THE AXIS OF RESISTANCE!
🕊️✊🏼💛 |🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇶🇵🇸🇸🇾🇾🇪|
Even if everyone goes against us, we're going to stay united inshAllah
@@shukran3907 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Soon you will be kicked out.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. The so-called ''axis of resistance'' which is all lies and sinister ideology that we all know and have seen by now will soon be crushed and eradicated and I estimate that to be within less than 2 years. ;)
@@bcvxx8688 crushed by who? your 15'000 men who never accomplished anything in their lifes? You can provoke us as much as you want but we all know who has the stronger will and military power. Even with full backing of Israel and Saudi Arabia, you're not able to do anything.
@@shukran3907 The terrorist United snakes, Zionist Saudi backed hypocrites will soon face the ultimate humiliation and defeat. We remain hopeful for peace and justice Insha'Allah! 🙌🏼 All the truth seeking souls can see clearly where the camp of humanity and the oppressed is 🕊️✌🏼
I am a Sunni Muslim but without Iran and Lebanon the Palestinian resistance would be near impossible. May Allah bless Sayyid Nasrallah and the rest of the fighters.
Why Muslims want destroy Israel?
All devil's demonic plans deeds be binded failed in the name of Jesus Christ!
@@eluilus4017Yeah you genius, you do know that Israel is jewish and that they hate Jesus? Christians get spit on in Israel and verbally abused on a daily basis. Jews believe Jesus pbuh was born as a illegitimate son to Josef and call him utterly bad names.
Thank you for that interview. Julia Kassem is extremely knowledgeable -- oh, the things we could have accomplished if more people in the U.S. had taken the time to learn as much.
I heard that the Israelis lost 137 tanks in Lebanon in 2006 and that Hezbollah used a new style of warfare that was designed to nullify an enemy's artillery superiority and their close air support.
They lost a quarter of their tanks that were sent in. Hezbollah invited them into a narrow valley, the Zionists obliged and the massacre of tanks began. Israelis recorded interviews on Zionist TV channels. They said they realised they were all going to die when there tanks would be taken out by Hezbollah fighters suddenly popping up in front of them with anti tank weapons and then suddenly disappearing. The Zionist terrorists said it was like fighting an army of ghosts who could appear at will, take their heavy armour out and disappear. They were literally in tears giving these testimonies not knowing if they'd be allowed out alive
Thanks for educating Americans and people from the west about the resistance movement .
I can only imagine what kind of backlash you get for merely calling hezbollah a party of resistance and NOT terrorist.
Peace from Europe
Hezbollah is a terrorist group. Their end goal is clear and they have said it a million times: they want to kick out Christians as well as other groups and make Lebanon a shia state. Everyone knows this by now.
@@bcvxx8688 they never said that. You know nothing. Even the host in this video is christian!
@@bcvxx8688
First of all who decides what a "terrorist organization / group" is ?
Yes the US and some European countries view hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
Russia, Switzerland, India , China and many more countries don't view hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
You could argue that most of humanity doesn't view hezbollah as terrorists.
The US has no right to dictate who is and who isn't a terrorist when they themselves have committed more terrorism more war crimes more crimes against humanity than any other country in the world.
People have the right to resist imperialism, I may disagree with their ideologies and views on certain things but this has nothing to do with their right to resist occupation and colonialism
@@glitchinthematrix9306 He knows, he's just lying.
@@bcvxx8688 stop lying
You must be a ziotrool or brainwashed
You can tell this is really personal for Rania. Keep strong sis!
This is one of the best news channels on youtube!
Thanks for opening up Middle East to the rest of the world. Please do more of such programs please.
Superb analysis on a wide range of topics such as Saudi's involvement in Lebanon, the various parties and groups inside Lebanon and even Iran's economic model and how its aligned with Hezbollah's ideology. I truly learned a ton.
Julia was a great guest, would love to hear her again, thank you Rania/dispatches
Thank you both!
This conversation was so enlightening. I can draw so many parallels of the methods applied in Brazil and these you, girls, are describing.
Love Breakthrough News. Can't praise enough the invaluable work you do.
God I hope your channel doesn't get taken down for this.
More critical video channels are moving
to non censorship platforms like locals,
and rokfin, etc.
Julia, you did an amazing job in explaining the resistance perspective. We need more of you and Rania who are intellectuals who explain historic, philosophical and ideological concepts. Very important work. Most of this movement is in Arabic, so its great to see English speaking perspectives. From a Bekaa Lebanese living abroad, with lovee.
Rania Khalek doyen of honest journalism absolutely fantastic and educational.
Rania you are doing an excellent job.
Nice to have that history lesson included
Awesome interview, thanks Rania!
It would be wonderfully interesting were you to elaborate on the iranian economic model. Good work
It's based on true Islamic principles where you cannot profiteer and leverage over someone's weaker bargaining power. It's based on honesty, transparency, and integrity.
Why isn't any news mentioning the fact that literally everyone else you talk to here says they heard the sound of jets immediately before the blast? That's why I was luckily looking out of my southern windows towards Dahieh when it hit.
OK, where can I see the people saying they heard the sounds of jets? I personally do not believe that a jet or anything external triggered the port blast
Mossad eas behind it we all know that! Israel was awaiting a hezbollah response during the time for 2 weeks already. The port blast event i’m sure was an action from israeli-us side! Bc immidiately hours after the blast all the propaganda videos were ready and aired on social media platforms against hezbollah!
@@qwertyuiopzxcvbnm9890 that's my question too, I haven't talked to anyone on the ground here who didn't hear them; 100s of people. 'where you were' was all anyone could talk about for weeks after, which is why it's creepy it's not on the news. I don't necessarily think the jets caused the explosion, because the warehouse was already on fire. But everyone heard them...
Thank you for that intervie
Thank you for such a wonderfully informative video. Please do a follow up.
Thank you very much for your work
Your guest was awesum! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
very knowledgeable. Keep it up ladies!!
Love you and your work Tank you
You opened My eyes to many things Thank You and your guest , it was amazingly good , i did watch it without blink just like a good good movie
Julia is very knowledgeable and very cute
" Excellent Discussion " 🌺🍃🦋
Big fan of breakthrough news, always very informative. As was briefly mentioned in this episode full episode dedicated to the economic model of Iran would be brilliant. It's very hard to get decent information on Iran's economic model in west. Really hope you's do an episode dedicated to it.
More!! 👏👏👏👍
You ladies are smart. Ya nailed it
Wow, I have never seen someone breaking down the philosophy and Islam and Marxism like this. Any further readings that can be suggested? I know there was an Iranian dude in the XXth century who tried to reform Islam based on socialist ideas but I need more info. Thanks
VERY GOOD SHOW
BTW very impressive work you two ladies.
I really hope that you do an episode on the economic model of Iran as well, nobody ever talks about it.
What software do you use for the meetings? Skype?
Outstanding anaylsis on what was and is really going on in the Middle East and imperialism's role along with aparthied Isreal in creating so much chaos and disruption in the lives of the masses of people in Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East region as well as what the prople are doing to fight back. May all of the people of the Middle East have justice as well as peace.
so... that is the political and economic situation of lebanon... utmost sincere gratitude for your conversational sharing... reminds an imparted story somewhere in afghanistan... with the geneva accord soviets withdrawal, some individual high ranking soviet military refused to withdraw... a learned scholar imam reached out to them and said: ...islam is sowed and ingrained in the culture and tradition of the peoples in these lands and arab lands... yourselves communists take religion as personal matter... communists will become scapegoats as justified reason for power-hungry islamists in arming themselves and young unbridled islamists... you are the one to understand... step back... before there will be tragic killings between communists and islamists while our true enemy is hovering above all of us... afghanistan will surely persevere against the enemy of everyone...
I hope said hassan watches this podcast someday😂
Amazing conversation, I learned so much, and it showed me how much knowledge there's to gain by engaging in Arab socialism
Dear Rania, I am an Iranian reformist communist. I feel that you guys are the closest ones to us in Iran (fadAii Aksariyat) with historical bands to Palestinian and Lebanese resistance from 60 years ago. Unfortunately the guest said untrue things about Iranian economic system, etc. which must be corrected to give a better perspective and that you don't repeat our mistakes!!!
I'm at your disposal to introduce our comrades with much better English to talk to you🙏💝👍
Well some criticism is always good but why don't you point out what exactly she was wrong about?
@@friskedmooo9369 exactly
Actually, she also said some true things that iranian "lefties" who tend to align themselves with the West left try hard to ignore. For instance, it is important to remember the two main line of thoughts at the outset of the 1978 revolution, one of them very socialistic (whose leader was assassianted by the MLK if I remember correctly). I know Morteza Mohit does talk about the economics of Iran thoug he also tend to be too idealistic and forgoes some historical facts.
@@leroitiaks hello friends and thx for noticing my comments. Of your answers I realize that you also are under pressure of 2 extremes and try to find place on the "right side" which for us should be "left side". The whole western propaganda machine, specially from Bush era, has tried to picture a 2 sides battle, good vs evil, ... I am at resistance side and am among unfortunately fewer comrades who haven't been brainwashed by the so called "western democracy and human rights" facade.
@@AlternativeMediaJointCenterI am not sure what you mean by "right side" and "left side". Part of my family fought (with weapons) the Shah and then the mullahs for years. I don't consider myself a "reformist communist" by from anti-imperialist I became a communist after ~10 years in the USA.
What is the French cultural ingrefient these days, the language itself and the whole national.entity of France in Le Liban if that is easily and briefly expressed?
Apart from the ums , intelligent young woman, she needs a speech coach after that she is ready , impressive history and political skills
I will offer my help. She's amazing, but the ums are from the subconscious and she won't even be aware. Otherwise absolutely amazing knowledge and insights
@@shukeelc5177 please let me know how it goes, with your assistance in her speech correction
Thank you both for the wonderful information.
Support the resistance against Z onism
Knew most of this but still delighted by the timely airing of this. Anything more uninformed than the "proxies of Iran" trope from Washington...no mention of Wilayat al-Faqih from those clowns,nuances are lost on them.
Julia Kassem not on Twitter ;(
I love knowledgeable women!
Kassem is so based...
Make video about Pakistan .
Maybe with that left guy. Also with somebody else
Also about Turkey
58:22 They are the party of Allah. Indeed, God’s party is bound to succeed.
your guest Julia Kassem is super knowledgable mashAllah. Very detailed and explanatory particularly with the question "is Hezbollah have an economic ideology"? There needs to be more discussion about this topic among Islamic scholars, shayookhs, ayatollahs, etc. I would be very interested in seeing a deep dive into Iranian economic theories, disagreements discussions. Great work Rania !
Why did you delete my comment Admin??? 😡
I would have liked more of a conversation, instead of this guest's non-stop recitations, which got boring and hard to follow. When Rania would speak up, the guest over-talked her. The guest should have piped down a bit and allowed the host to structure an exchange.
I've seen so many crazy western feminist girls, now seing these girls is quite refreshing!
u r weird
I am making a banal and inane post but at least it's not spam.
Thanks for some much needed modern history of the region which doesn't exclude the important role of 'Communists', so called communists, and the chance to picture a stateless world full of people who know what to do!. A ;Free Association of Producers with a common understanding of tasks at the international level. Too many choose to 'forget' and letthe capitalist stagnation continue undealt with. Thanksfor your insight Cde's.
God-bless the resistance
very informative, and most info is pretty accurate actually, but a lot of the negatives of hezbollah either were not mentioned or just brushed off, I think the guest is a bit biased
I really believe we will see peace between Lebanon and Israel definitely in our lifetime. Hezbollah as a sectarian group or state within a state doesn't make sense in any future Lebanon.
We will have peace when Israel and US imperialism is defeated.
But that is just standard Lebanese politics, from French colonialists divisions among Lebanese---duvude and rule.
You're both gorgeous mashalla ❤️ sorry i just had to say itt. Allah y2aweekonn
Free Palestine from a white British Catholic 👍🇬🇧
Uumm....uumm..ummm... ummm mm😮😮😮
Cut the none sense Israel nuke Beirut!! Veteran Today has excellent article on this.
Then the radiation fallout would hit everyone in the area, including themselves, and they would seek to escape to US and W Europe, while Palestinians. Lebanese etc. would want to do same.
Iranian people has made a revolution as you said, but after less than one year it's seized by Islamic group, not a progressive one, but a very ancient regressive part. They like financialization over industrialization or any kind of domestic accusation. They have actually a kind imperliastic behavior, but they are not powerful enough compare to other imperialist powers!
Current gov. massacred a no. of leftist
and other political prisoners, a few years
after current Islamic Republican Party took power.
Too many ums
I doubt they will succeed
I want to marry you
Good job. Hizbullah's power, operations and management, and mission statements are affecting Lebanon's sovereignty and should move its headquarters to somewhere else. Officially, it is not a licensed Lebanese entity. One of its main missions is to liberate Palestine, which has been the mission of almost every Arab country for over 70 years. The only achievement was the creation of refugee camps to host and accommodate Palestinian refugees. During Lebanon's civil war in the 70's, Syria and Lebanon launched a war against the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, killing many, and not liberating any. Since that civil war, Lebanese started migrating. Basically, the mission to liberate Palestine has been a failure. Hizbullah, knowing all the side effects, still wants to liberate Palestine, using Lebanon as headquarters. Hizbullah may have helped around 1.5M Syrian refugees find accommodations in Lebanon, because it is a strong ally with Syria, the country these refugees are from. Bravo!
During Trump's presidency, a few Arabic countries made peace with Israel, and I truly hope that many more will join. The US and/or the Arab countries, can manage and solve the issues in Lebanon, and bring peace and prosperity back to the Beautiful Lebanon. However, Hizbullah's presence in Lebanon is a deterrent.
But if there was no resistance, Palestinians would be worse----
no occupied territories, just all
Israeli regular empire---all full of
Israeli far rightists--- 100%.All
Palestinians would be massacred or in exile diaspora.
As an Israeli, I'm Wishing for the conflict to end and make peace between Lebanon 🇱🇧 and Israel 🇮🇱.
The politicians don't represent most Israelis(most of us just want to live in peace).
I think a lot of what's discussed here in this interview was one-sided and I encourage people to here to have a civil conversation with an Israeli,
I think some would be surprised that we all are not that different with our goals.
Leave Palestine if you're actually interested in peace.
I have nothing against you. I respect your comment but I feel as a israeli citizen you also have a duty to give the palestians their rights!
We, the Christians of Lebanon, want to make peace with Israel 🇱🇧 🇮🇱. Hope it happens very soon. This interview as well as this channel is all BS and full of lies and mental illness.
@@bcvxx8688 Why don't you move out of Lebanon to Israhell?
@@Amaking10000 Nope. We're staying in Lebanon forever. We are the indigenous people here while others came with the barbaric Islamic invasion from the desert and DNA and historical analysis have proved it. How is your comment even related or relevant loool you seriously have poor cognitive skills.
She really has to get rid of her bad habit....um......um.....um.......um 🤭
true
Not everyone is perfect
She’s perfect enough for me 😍
If Hezbollah isn't irans proxy, he should give his weapons to the lebanese army.
One thing to note.
Hezbollah used their weapons to to silence lebanese people many times.
So stop making him seem like such a great movement
Just too many uhms. Couldn't listen anymore.
YOU CAN'T FEEL FOR OTHER PEOPLE NOT RELATED TO NOT MY PEOPLE.