Opinion & Analysis

The Dreams of the Supreme Leader and Nasrallah

Does it make sense that millions of Arabs pay the price of the dreams of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and his follower, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese “Hezbollah”? This is the reality of the refugees and the displaced people in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon now!! Hezbollah has been trading with the Palestinian cause and profiting from it since it was founded, and this is one of the conclusions that can be drawn by those who do research in the history of this fateful party since its beginning. In fact, its false claims about defending Lebanon and its sovereignty succeeded only in turning Lebanon into a previous State, and a current area of ​​influence of Iran!

Why do some people get angry from the classification by the Gulf Cooperation Council of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, is it because the party practices politics in Lebanon? This is not a proof that precludes terrorism from the party and its leader, as many terrorist organizations throughout history practiced politics, and even some among them ascended to power through the gates of fascism, Nazism and Islamism and other currents!. Some brave media people in the pro-Hezbollah newspapers say -and by the way they are either affiliated to the ideology of the party or to its treasuries of Iranian origin- that the Gulf regimes are subordinated to Israel and implement its policies. Well, gentlemen … and whom are you subordinated to? Does the fact that the characterization of the party as a terrorist organization by the Gulf Cooperation Council coincides with Israel’s, means there is coordination and advance planning? Do you believe these naive allegations? I doubt that you believe them, as you have enough malice and cunning that prevent you from believing such unsubstantiated allegations, but you are trading with positions and raising slogans of an issue you were the first to abandon, and you went to fight the Syrians and to displace them to shelters in various areas of the world!! Some people in the Arab world argue that the “Hezbollah” has a historical record in the “resistance” and that it defeated Israel… etc.!! This opinion is debatable, but this is not the object of ​​our discussion now. But let us assume that some or all of what is said in this connection is true, which is not true in absolute terms, who told you, gentlemen, that the GCC has ranked the “Hezbollah” among terrorist groups on the background of its conflict with Israel? Does that mean that if you have a positive attitude at some point, your actions afterwards should be ignored, even if you were involved in heinous crimes? Is it adequate to keep silent on the actions of “Hezbollah” against Sunnis in Lebanon and Syria in defense of Bashar al-Assad and his regime? Does the displacement of millions of Syrians and the shedding of their blood by the party have anything to do with Arab honor, pride and dignity?! If we take such confused calculations, the “Al-Qaeda” leaders like al-Zawahri and bin Laden before him, are not criminals or terrorists because they have been involved in the resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan!! Weren’t these traders with the Palestinian against the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat when he made his historic visit to Jerusalem, seeking to bring peace, and it did not help him be forgiven that he was the owner of the historic Arab victory in the Sixth of October 1973? Debate about the Lebanese “Hezbollah,” revealed that there are some people who practice intellectual and media terrorism, claiming that stigmatizing the party of terrorism is a free gift to Israel, and that the resolutions of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab Interior Ministers Council on the party represent the end of the joint Arab action and the beginning of the Arab-Israeli joint action (!) Personally, I do not know what Israel has to do in such an equation. It is laughable and ironic at the same time. Do the “resistance” proclaimers believe that there is still “resistance” working against Israel? Do not they see that the guns of the “resistance” brave people among the terrorists of the “Hezbollah” are addressed to the chests of the miserable children of Syria? There is no doubt that the frequent repetition of such allegations and claims pushes to question: how long will the Arab media pens subordinated to Iran continue causing corruption? And for how long will some continue to believe that Khamenei defends Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories, while he financed the displacement of millions of Sunni Muslims in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, and seeks the destruction of the Kingdom of Bahrain and other countries in the region? And how long will these idiots continue to deceive ordinary Arabs claiming that the terrorist Hassan Nasrallah is a hero and a resistant against Israel? Do not they see that Israel occupies the Palestinian territories and has no existence in the Syrian cities and villages in which “Hezbollah’s terrorist elements are positioned? Be fair O people, if you still have minds, and give ear to the voice of conscience that is in you, if you still have conscience, the popular Arab feeling which you claim retains a heroic record for Hezbollah is the same which also records thousands of crimes committed by the party daily in full view of the entire world against our brothers in Syria and Lebanon!!

Dr. Salem Alketbi

Dr. Salem Alketbi is an Emirati political analyst and researcher whose work explains the forces reshaping the Middle East. He holds a PhD in Public Law and Political Science, awarded with highest distinction and a recommendation for publication, from Hassan II University in Casablanca. His thesis examined political and religious propaganda on Arab social media. His columns, published in Arab and international outlets, focus on Gulf security, Iran, countering extremism, and the UAE’s vision of a stable, prosperous region built on cooperation.

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