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No people in the Israeli entity

Nasrallah speaks out:

"There are no people in the Israeli entity, they are all occupiers and settlers," said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a speech on Monday afternoon.

The speech was delivered at the opening of a conference titled "Palestine is Victorious," convened in Lebanon in order to renew media discourse and manage the conflict with Israel.

Nasrallah did not specify whether Arab Israelis were also considered occupiers and settlers.

It's interesting to note that practically all of the vicious anti-Israel rhetoric nowadays comes with Iranian backing. Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy in Lebanon. Hamas receives funding and military equipment from Iran, and that Islamic Jihad Summer Camp in Gaza yesterday is Iranian-financed. Which is not to say that everything's rosy elsewhere, but after the Abraham Accords there are clear signs that the major Sunni states are prepared to move on and accept Israel's existence. In other words the main obstacle to peace in the Middle East is no longer Palestine – if it ever was – but Iran.

If only Biden and co. would realise that…

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2 responses to “No people in the Israeli entity”

  1. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    Thank you for these insights. They’re encouraging and depressing at the same time. It would seem that the Iranian regime is what’s preventing progress in the Middle East. But it strikes me as a double-edged sword: Ironically, it’s precisely the aggressiveness and radicalism of the Iranian regime that are drawing the Sunni Muslim states and Israel together.

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  2. Graham Avatar
    Graham

    ‘aggressiveness and radicalism…’ – there’s more to the signs of progress than that. Iranian radicalism wouldn’t lead to MBS disavowing the hadith, for example. And erdogan’s empire is sunni but becoming more like Iran by the day.

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