{"id":586,"date":"2013-05-13T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/?p=586"},"modified":"2013-05-16T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T09:30:17","slug":"lebanon-hezbollahs-russian-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"LEBANON – Hezbollah’s Russian Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hassan<\/a>Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah giving a speech on May 9.<\/em><\/p>\n

DISQUS Comment on:<\/strong> “Hezbollah’s Russian Connection”<\/a> (Al-Monitor\/Jean Aziz)<\/p>\n

— “Nasrallah has finally assured his opponents that he is ready for anything now or anytime”<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems very unlikely he is really ready to go to war and open the box of Pandora. Hassan Nasrallah is too clever a man to subject the whole Levant to a regional conflict.<\/p>\n

The next war between Hezbollah and Israel will be the last shoot-out for long, and one of them will fall or at least be severely damaged for a long time. Both sides know that. Israel will turn southern Lebanon into an underground parking lot.<\/p>\n

And in the very unlikely case there are signs Israel may be doomed, it won\u00b4t go down without taking its foes with it.<\/p>\n

Nasrallah in his recent speech seemed more like feeling the urge to assure his followers of a ready-for-all set of mind because there is huge questions in the Lebanese Shia community about what Hezbollah is doing in Syria. But that\u00b4s more a calculation aiming at the Lebanese political scene and home front and not Israel – elections ahead.<\/p>\n

Nasrallah had to make a point and gather his people behind him because there is also – as reports indicate – refusal in Hezbollah\u00b4s ranks to sacrifice for Syria at the given level while Hezbollah prides itself as a resistance movement that cares first and foremost for Lebanon.<\/p>\n

— “Moreover, some Syrian officials and sources close to Hezbollah confirmed to Al-Monitor that the option of attacking Israel with a conclusive war that might become an open regional one is being seriously discussed and prepared for once again.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Syrian government is about to take – or has already taken – the upper hand in the current war. The least it needs now is to open a new front, attack Israel and then possibly draw in the US.<\/p>\n

It is on the verge of making headway to consolidate lost territory. Neither Syria nor Hezbollah can afford to fight on more fronts now.<\/p>\n

The Russians are back in the Middle East, slipping into the vacuum left by the Americans. And they won\u00b4t let neither Syria nor Hezbollah jeopardize that current success.<\/p>\n

It seems more likely, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov held talks with Nasrallah to make absolutely clear to him – or convince and give him sufficient incentive, maybe linked to Iran – not to make any wrong move, whatever may lie ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah giving a speech on May 9. DISQUS Comment on: “Hezbollah’s Russian Connection” (Al-Monitor\/Jean Aziz) — “Nasrallah has finally assured his opponents that he is ready for anything now or anytime” It seems very unlikely he is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[12,143,206,204,6,43,205,47,139,7],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disqus-kommentar","tag-assad","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-bogdanov","tag-hassan-nasrallah","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-mikhail-bogdanov","tag-nasrallah","tag-russia","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}