Hezbollah
Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan: “This is not a time for Hezbollah to start a conflict with Israel” • Strategic Affairs Minister Israel Katz: “We will not take any action necessary to prevent threats” • Former GOC Northern Command: “This is nothing new.”
“Hezbollah has begun an attempt to establish and entrench a covert force in the Syrian Golan Heights that is designed to act against Israel when given the order,” said the Israel Defense Forces.
There is wide consensus in Israel that the Golan Heights in Israel’s north is essential to Israel’s security, and that the region played an important role in Jewish history as well.
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“I come here as an American. I come here to try to figure out what’s best for America. What’s best for America is a safe, secure and prosperous Israel,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
This comes two weeks after the United Kingdom did declare Hezbollah a terrorist group, joining 12 other countries with a similar designation.
Great Britain is Israel’s largest European trade partner and third-largest overall. The trade turnover between the two nations in 2018 was around $11 billion—a 15 percent increase from the previous year.
Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani said in a speech that aired on IRINN TV (Iran) on Feb. 22 that the spreading of the culture of jihad and martyrdom has “unique and positive implications on moral, religious and national aspects.”
The bill emphasizes the strategic importance of Israeli control over the area, which the Jewish state captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, in protecting civilians from threats such as from Iran in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has called members of Hezbollah his “friends.”
The United States had already identified the risk of a Lebanese government with a pro-Iran majority. Several American officials visited Lebanon to warn Lebanese officials not to appoint Hezbollah politicians to top ministerial posts such as health minister, and also to warn about the ramifications of rapprochement with Iran.
Before this development, the United Kingdom distinguished between the Hezbollah terrorist and political facets.
