A few days later, Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, deputy head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, also declared that his party "will give full support for the resistance in Palestine and liberate Al Quds."
On 12/11/2017 Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds Force, called the leaders of the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to offer military support. According to the pro-Iran Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV Soleimani ordered Hezbollah to defend Jerusalem. He expressed Iran's full support for the Palestinian cause
Hezbollah has quickly sought to take a leadership role in response to Trumps decision and the reaction it caused among Palestinians in Lebanon and elsewhere. After of break regarding the Palestinian cause since Hezbollah entered the civil war in Syria in March of 2011. Killing, it is reported by some Syrian Palestinian leaders, more Sunni Palestinians over the past seven years than Israel has killed since the 1948 Nakba, nearly 70 years ago, Nasrallah claims Hezbollah will help Palestinians.
Nasrallah was emphatic on 12/11/2017:
"And I declare today that I speak not only on behalf of Hezbollah, but on behalf of the entire Resistance Axis (Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Iraq, Yemen). I know their opinion and their position very well, being in constant contact with all. Previously Nasrallah has insisted that Hezbollah had nothing to do with Yemen and had no fighters, military training centers or even contacts there.) to the Palestinian people and ready to stand by them." Nasrallah assured the Palestinians in Lebanon's 12 camps that Hezbollah will "liberate Al Quds (Jerusalem)!"
It's quite unlikely that the "Resistance," as Nasrallah claims will expel Israel from Jerusalem anytime soon. Such boasts fall these days on skeptical ears in Lebanon because to date Hezbollah has done very little for Lebanon's Palestinians. In June of 2010 Hezbollah pulled out of a Palestinian march for civil rights near Parliament and in August of 2010, blocked, in Parliament, an effective proposal to grant Lebanon's Palestinians the most elementary civil rights to work or own a home.
But at the South Beirut Hezbollah rally after the Trump announcement, the Shia assembly from my neighborhood who came to listen to Nasrallah via video feed, were excited and on que would look at the media cameras and offer the following chants when signaled by rally organizers:
ï"š · "We are moving towards Al-Quds by the millions, seeking martyrdom, (death) !"
ï"š · "We are at your command, O Nasrallah",
ï"š · "Death to Israel, Death to America",
ï"š · "I will never abandon you, O Hussein!"(ed: Hussein is Aba Abdallah al-Hussein (grandson of the Prophet Mohammad and the 3rd of the 12 Imams of Shiism. He killed at Karbala on October 10, 680 fighting rival Sunni Muslim forces during an Umayyad military victory)
ï"š · " O Allah! Protect Nasrallah for us!"
Among the crowd listening to Nasrallah were many relatives of the 10,000 plus Lebanese Shia men from Lebanon who were either killed or wounded over the past seven years, all being victims of Hezbollah's wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. For their families, maybe during the short emotional period of the event and while hearing and seeing the popular Nasrallah, they experienced a brief respite from the grief of losing their loved ones in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Yet increasingly they express that the reasons for their irreplaceable loses were for no other purpose than what very few Shia believe these days. And that is Tehran's insistence that the Lebanese and other Shia from half a dozen countries "seek Martyrdom" carrying out a revenge ritual against Takfiris for the death of Hussein at Kabala, nearly fifteen hundred years ago.
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