Man Killing Thousands Of Sunnis Deeply Concerned For Sunni Welfare

Sieges, assaults, massacres, mistreatment of captives, and myriad other acts of aggression against a mostly-Sunni population show an abiding care for the welfare of Sunnis.

Beirut, February 17 – The head of a Shiite militant organization whose troops are involved in the killing, starvation, imprisonment, and torture or hundreds of thousands of Sunni coreligionists expressed profound care for Sunni Arabs yesterday, warning them not to ally with Israel, which kills Sunni Palestinians.

Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, delivered a speech Tuesday in which he admonished countries such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain not to join the Jewish State in opposing Iran and its proxies, of which Hezbollah is one, because Israel kill Palestinians, who are predominantly Sunni Muslim. The remarks came against the backdrop of intense Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian Civil War on the side of the Alawite and Shiite pro-regime forces in a conflict that has claimed more than 470,000 lives in less than five years.

Shiite Iran has intervened extensively in the Syrian conflict, both to buttress its ally President Basher Assad and to preserve and deepen its influence in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is the most potent political and military force. Hezbollah has committed thousands of troops to defend Assad and preserve Iran’s supply lines to the organization, even at the risk of weakening its ability to fight Israel, which until recently was the group’s raison d’être. In the process Hezbollah has had a hand in sieges, assaults, massacres, mistreatment of captives, and myriad other acts of aggression against a mostly-Sunni population, which in the Muslim world often represents an abiding concern for the welfare of Sunnis.

Analysts say the profound devotion to the happiness and comfort as displayed in abusing them for political gain has venerable roots in the region. “Look at how Lebanon and Syria treat Palestinian refugees,” noted commentator Marqid Assad. “For nearly seventy years, out of love for their Palestinian brethren, the governments of those countries have restricted them to squalid camps, excluded them from most jobs, denied them citizenship, and otherwise refused to absorb them into the society – all to help them, of course. If those refugees – at this point descendants of refugees – were to be properly absorbed into Lebanese or Syrian society, that would mean abandoning the dream of destroying Israel with an influx of millions of people, a goal that is manifestly preferable to welcoming those Palestinians into society. Because they are so loved.”

“It also has parallels in Christian history,” he added. “The Crusades, forced conversions, massacres, pogroms, and other atrocities directed against Jews for the last fifteen hundred years or so serve as potent manifestations of Christian love.”