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| September 9, 2012
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Dutch & UK urge sanctions against Hezbollah

FMs call on all EU countries in joining the U.S. by imposing sanctions on Hezbollah for providing support to Syria’s Assad

By REUTERS

 

PAPHOS, Cyprus – Britain and the Netherlands urged other EU governments on Friday to join the United States in imposing sanctions on the Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah for providing support to Syria’s President Bashar Assad.

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah -Photo: REUTERS/Sharif Karim

Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah – Photo: REUTERS/Sharif Karim

Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal said the European Union should brand Hezbollah a terrorist organization, a move that would enable the bloc to freeze the group’s assets in Europe.

“We have for quite some time now argued that effective European measures should be taken against Hezbollah,” Rosenthal said on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Cyprus to discuss the EU’s response to the Syrian crisis.The

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| September 4, 2012
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Facebook Doesn’t ‘Like’ Nasrallah’s Birthday, Deleted Event-Page

Facebook cancelled an online “event” of Hizbullah leader, Hassan Nasrallah’s 52nd birthday celebration.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

Facebook cancelled an online “event” on Friday celebrating the fifty-second birthday of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese media reported.

According to the Assafir newspaper, around 7,000 users had signed up to “attend” the event with 52 apparent Hizbullah supporters writing on the event’s page extending their birthday wishes.

“Congratulations to us that we were born in a Nasrallah’s era,” one supporter wrote, according to Al-Arabiya.  Another, describing himself as a “Hizbullah fighter,” said that, “52 years have passed and Nasrallah has rejected oppression…and stayed as banner of victory.” Continue Reading »

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| August 24, 2012
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Leading German politician calls on the EU to ban Hezbollah

Foreign policy spokesman for Merkel’s party says, “Hezbollah threatens the security of our ally Israel”.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

BERLIN – Hezbollah should be placed on the European Union’s terror list, Philipp Missfelder, Bundestag foreign policy spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, wrote The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

Hezbollah gunman in Beirut - Photo: Reuters

Hezbollah gunman in Beirut – Photo: Reuters

Missfelder’s call to outlaw Hezbollah is the first statement from a prominent and senior European politician since the United States and Israeli intelligence agencies asserted that the Lebanese group Hezbollah – in a joint project with Iran – murdered five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver in July.

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| August 23, 2012
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Hezbollah drill: Operation ‘occupy the Galilee”

Nasrallah threatens to kill tens of thousands of Israelis with missiles then Hezbollah plans to capture Galilee.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Over 10,000 Hezbollah fighters participated in the organization’s largest military exercise to date last week, which included defensive tactics and preparations to occupy the Upper Galilee, Lebanese newspaper Al-Joumhouria reported.
Hizbullah rockets

Hizbullah rockets -Photo: Associated Press

The report noted that the drill lasted three days and the majority of the soldiers that participated in the exercise belonged to special forces.

According to the “informed source,” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is said to have called for the organization to make the appropriate preparations to occupy northern Israel recently. Continue Reading »

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| August 21, 2012
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$150M Hezbollah-linked funds Seized by U.S.

US authorities say banking institution ‘plays key role in facilitating money laundering for Hezbollah’ so, funds wired by Beirut-based Lebanese Canadian Bank were ‘frozen’.

By AFP

 

US authorities on Monday announced the seizure of $150 million allegedly linked to a scheme by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to launder proceeds from drug trafficking and other crimes.

Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Photo: Reuters

Hezbollah Chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Photo: Reuters

The money came from a US bank account used by the Beirut-based Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) to conduct US currency transactions, US Attorney Preet Bharara and US Drug Enforcement Administration chief Michele Leonhart said.

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| August 19, 2012
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Lebanon reports: Hezbollah page, Removed by Facebook

Facebook blocks Shiite terrorists group’s page along with affiliated Al-Manar TV page, for ‘inciting violence’. In response, Hezbollah relaunches TV station’s smartphone app

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Facebook has removed pages created by Hezbollah and its television station, Al-Manar, over incitement to violence, the Daily Star reported Sunday.

The social networking giant thus followed recommendations by the US State Department. The latter included Hezbollah on its list of terror organization in 2004; adding it TV station to the list in 2006.

Zuckerberg. -Photo: AFP

Mark Zuckerberg. – Photo: AFP

“Under our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities we do not allow content that ‘incites violence,'” Frederic Wolens, a Facebook spokesperson, said. Continue Reading »

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| August 16, 2012
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US intelligence report: Hezbollah operating in Europe with Impunity

US intelligence experts warn EU’s persistent refusal to include the Shiite militia in Europe’s terror watch-list will eventually render all their counter-terrorism efforts useless

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

WASHINGTON – Despite continuous warnings by the United States and Israel, the European Union still refuses to include Hezbollah on its terror watch-list and as a result, the Shiite militia’s activities on the continent, both overt and covert, are increasing in a disconcerting rate.

According to a recent US intelligence report, thousands of Hezbollah members and supporters operate within the EU and raise money for its Beirut-based leadership.

According to the New York Times, despite the insistence of Washington and Jerusalem – which maintain that Hezbollah is backed by Iran – the European Union refuses to treat it as anything other than a Lebanese political and social movement. Continue Reading »

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| August 16, 2012
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Arab Gulf States warns its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately

Sectarian violence spreading from Syria as the kidnapping of more than 20 in Hezbollah-controlled Shi’ite areas of Lebanon

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BEIRUT – Lebanese Shi’ite gunmen kidnapped more than 20 people on Wednesday in retaliation for the capture of one of their kinsmen in Syria, prompting Sunni Gulf states to warn their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately.

A Turk, a Saudi and several Syrians were among those abducted in an area of Lebanon controlled by Hezbollah Shi’ite militants, raising the risk that the sectarian violence driving the conflict in Syria will spread to its neighbor, which fought its own civil war on sectarian lines for 15 years.

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| August 9, 2012
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The Shadow Wars of Israel and Iran

Just enough ambiguity where the seed of doubt  makes it difficult for Israel or the US to respond

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BERLIN — A magnetic bomb detonated on a diplomatic car in New Delhi. The police uncovered a cache of explosives at a golf course in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed in an attack outside the airport in the Black Sea coastal city of Burgas.

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A car belonging to the Israeli embassy following a bomb blast in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 – Photo by AP

These were just a few of what some Israeli and American intelligence officials say were nearly a dozen plots that form the backbone of a continuing offensive by Iran and Hezbollah against Israel and its allies abroad.
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| August 8, 2012
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BUSTED: Israeli-Arab Hizbullah Cell had Bombs & Guns

Police & Shin-Bet arrest Israeli-Arab terrorists who had accumulated serious weaponry in preparation for an attack.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Police and the Shin Bet have nabbed an Israeli-Arab terrorist cell affiliated with Hizbullah. The cell was holding many weapons, including powerful bombs and M-16 rifles.

The bombs were smuggled into Israel from Lebanon, and were intended for use in terrorist attacks within Israel.

A total of 12 people were arrested in connection to the affair, and eight have been indicted. The case was initially under a gag order.

Most of the suspects are drug smugglers from the town of Ghajar in the north and terrorists from the Nazareth area in the Galilee. Continue Reading »

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| August 2, 2012
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Google and Apple both remove Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV streaming app

The Anti-Defamation League welcomes move, commends Apple for its vigilance in ensuring that terrorist-affiliated orgs don’t have access as Apple’s customers.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

Google and Apple have both removed a Hezbollah application for streaming video from its Al-Manar satellite network from their respective app stores, tech media website CNET reported on Tuesday.

 

Al-Manar is the broadcasting arm of Hezbollah.
Photo credit: Al-Manar

The Anti-Defamation League wrote to Apple on Friday when it became aware of the app. It was removed from the iTunes store on Sunday. A spokesman for Google told CNET on Tuesday that it had also removed the app from Google Play.

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| July 29, 2012
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Goldwasser’s widow: ‘May Nasrallah Never See the Light of Day’

Karnit Goldwasser, widow of Ehud Goldwasser who was kidnapped & murdered by Hizbullah terrorists, attacks the terror group.

By Elad Benari

 

Karnit Goldwasser, whose husband Ehud was kidnapped and murdered by Hizbullah terrorists in 2006, attacked the terror group and the European Union after a Lebanese television station showed a video which documents the Hizbullah squad as it attacked her husband’s jeep.

“This is another manipulation by [Hizbullah head] Nasrallah,” Goldwasser said in an interview on Channel 2 News on Saturday evening. “The first manipulation was when he kidnapped our loved ones for vile purposes. That’s the difference between human beings and those who say they are human beings. Continue Reading »

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| July 28, 2012
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Hezbollah airs Clip showing 2006 kidnapping of IDF reservists

Video released shows Hezbollah terrorists crossing into Israel, firing at military vehicle, but Regev, Goldwasser not shown

Roi Kais

Six years after the incident which led to the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War, the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah released on Friday a video it claims documents the abduction of IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.

Ehud Goldwasser Photo: Reuters

Ehud Goldwasser Photo: Reuters

Eldad Regev Reproduction photo: Hagai Aharon

Eldad Regev Reproduction photo: Hagai Aharon

The video, which was broadcast on the Al Mayadeen satellite network, shows a Hezbollah cell crossing the border into Israel and opening fire on an IDF Hummer from several dozen meters away. After identifying a hit, the terrorists approach the vehicle. Continue Reading »

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| July 25, 2012
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FM Liberman addresses Hezbollah as a terror group, relations with Turkey, & Syria’s biological weapons

Liberman cites adding Hezbollah to EU terrorist blacklist is a process that will take time.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

There is significant support for Israel’s call to add Hezbollah to the EU’s terrorist blacklist, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told Israel Radio from Brussels, in an interview aired Wednesday morning.

Avigdor Lieberman

FM Avigdor Lieberman – Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski

Liberman met Tuesday with his EU colleagues as part of the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting, where he called on the body to put the Lebanese organization on its terrorist list.

He said that discussion of his request, which seemed to be initially dismissed by EU officials, had been misrepresented, and that no one had expected it to be immediately accepted without debate.

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| July 24, 2012
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Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman: WMD transfer to Hezbollah is a ‘justification for war’

FM Liberman meets with European officials in Brussels, pushes for international involvement in safeguarding Syria’s WMD; EU: No consensus yet on adding Hezbollah to terror list.

The transfer of chemical weapons from Syria to Hezbollah is a clear casus belli, and Israel will act “decisively and without hesitation or restraint,”  Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday.

Speaking at a press conference at the EU-Israel Association Council meeting in Brussels, Liberman said this would be “a completely different ballgame, and we hope for the understanding and cooperation of the international community.”

Liberman with Markoulis at meeting in Brussels - Photo: Screenshot

Liberman with Markoulis at meeting in Brussels – Photo: Screenshot

Liberman said the international community should get involved to prevent the possibility of using biological and chemical weapons.

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