‘Hezbollah supporters urge leadership: Stop sending our sons to die in Syria’
‘Hezbollah supporters urge leadership: Stop sending our sons to die in Syria’ | JPost | Israel News.
Amid the mounting death toll of Hezbollah operatives in Syria, a delegation of Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon has asked the Shi’ite group’s leadership to stop sending operatives to fight for Syrian President Bashar Assad, pan-Arabic daily Asharq Alawsat reported Sunday.
The London-based paper quoted a source familiar with the situation as saying the delegation, consisting largely of people who had lost loved ones in Syrian battles from the Baalbek region, made their request to Hezbollah Shura Council member Mohammed Yazbek.
The delegation reportedly argued that they had been proud to send their sons to fight in the 2006 Second Lebanon War against Israel, but saw the deployment of Hezbollah fighters to defend the Syrian regime as “flawed and intolerable.”
Thousands of the Iranian-backed Shi’ite group’s fighters have been supporting ally Assad in his fight against Syrian rebels. Hezbollah fighters are currently aiding Assad in his offensive on the strategically important central city of Homs.
Many Lebanese see Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s support for Assad against an insurgency dominated by Syria’s Sunni majority as a miscalculation that will drag Lebanon into the Syrian quagmire, exacerbate fighting in Lebanon itself and deepen Sunni-Shi’ite sectarian rifts in the region.
Asharq Alawsat quoted a source in the organization as saying that Hezbollah was facing the dilemma of being unable to withdraw its forces because they had become integral to Assad’s defense, but also facing growing criticism in Lebanon and the Arab world for their support of the Syrian regime.
The paper quoted Hezbollah sources as saying the group must send a delegation to its patron Iran to clarify that it can no longer bear the burden of supporting the Syrian regime alone and that Iran must increase the participation of its own operatives in the war.
Reuters contributed to this report.
WarSclerotic 
July 7, 2013 at 12:01 PM
I wrote this six years ago. Alas, nothing has changed.
I Refuse to be a Guinea Pig
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7244#.Udk7l_lkN8E
Why are otherwise reasonable Western liberal politicians incapable of learning from previous mistakes?
1) Because there is no accountability.
2) Because they think they understand the problem, and they do not.
If all the authors of previous failed peace plans would have been held accountable for their schemes and fined for their failure, with the penalty doubling with every succeeding flop, they would think seriously before coming up with the next bright idea. Oslo I, Oslo II, Taba, Wye, Tenet, Mitchell, Zinni, Sharm El-Sheikh, Roadmap – how long will this farce go on? If politicians are not held responsible for their unrealistic plans, then it will go on until all of us are no more. Enough!
Is there not enough evidence to pause and seriously consider that perhaps there is something basically wrong in the approach? Would it not be only reasonable to try to learn how the other side thinks, to educate ourselves about Islam first, before we rush into another peace plan? But the politicians are lazy and confident that this n+1st peace plan will be so much better than the previous n that have failed. Or they know that it is as futile as the rest, but they must be seen to be doing something.
July 7, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Was intended for the article : Clueless US mediator
July 8, 2013 at 2:37 AM
For killing Jews you go to heaven and for killing mo slims you go to hell
It is logic according the islamic wisdom, but you know obamadrama said respect it..
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