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Line 10: − + − It was founded in 1982 during the Lebanese civil war. Its current Secretary General, [[Hassan Nasrallah]], has publicly stated a clear genocidal goal: "''if Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.''"<ref>''The Daily Star'' (Beirut) October 23, 2002, [https://web.archive.org/web/20021024133755/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/23_10_02/art5.asp], [http://tenc.net/a/graduation.htm], [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/774649/posts]+ Line 123:
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Founded by Iran in 1981 BEFORE Israel's invasion against PLO terrorists
[[Image:800px-Flag of Hezbollah svg.png|right|thumb|200px|Flag of Hezbollah.]]
[[Image:800px-Flag of Hezbollah svg.png|right|thumb|200px|Flag of Hezbollah.]]
'''Hezbollah''' (حزب الله, "Party of [[Allah]]"; sometimes spelled ''Hizbullah'', ''Hezbullah'', or ''Hezballah'') is a Shi'a [[Islam]]ic [[terrorist]] organization based in [[Lebanon]] and supported by [[Syria]]<ref>It has been declared a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia. See:
'''Hezbollah''' (حزب الله, "Party of [[Allah]]"; sometimes spelled ''Hizbullah'', ''Hezbullah'', or ''Hezballah'') is an Iranian founded Shi'a [[Islam]]ic [[terrorist]] organization based in [[Lebanon]] and supported by [[Syria]]<ref>It has been declared a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia. See:
*[http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm United States Department of State]
*[http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm United States Department of State]
*[http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/eng/documents/advisories/docs/entstld.txt Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada]
*[http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/eng/documents/advisories/docs/entstld.txt Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada]
The Radical Shia group is ''dedicated to creation of Iranian-style Islamic republic in Lebanon and removal of all non-Islamic influences from the area. Strongly anti-West and anti-Israel.''<ref>[[U.S. Department of State]], ''Background Information on Foreign Terrorist Organizations,'' Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, October 8, 1999 http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rpt/fto/2801.htm</ref>
The Radical Shia group is ''dedicated to creation of Iranian-style Islamic republic in Lebanon and removal of all non-Islamic influences from the area. Strongly anti-West and anti-Israel.''<ref>[[U.S. Department of State]], ''Background Information on Foreign Terrorist Organizations,'' Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, October 8, 1999 http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rpt/fto/2801.htm</ref>
==Overview==
[[File:Genocidal Islamofascist Hezbollah1.jpg|thumb|Genocidal Islamofascist Nasrallah: "If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."]]
[[File:Genocidal Islamofascist Hezbollah1.jpg|thumb|Genocidal Islamofascist Nasrallah: "If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."]]
Planned by Iran in 1979, it was founded by them in 1981 during the Lebanese civil war. Its former Secretary General, [[Hassan Nasrallah]], has publicly stated a clear genocidal goal: "''if Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.''"<ref>''The Daily Star'' (Beirut) October 23, 2002, [https://web.archive.org/web/20021024133755/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/23_10_02/art5.asp], [http://tenc.net/a/graduation.htm], [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/774649/posts]
*Krauthammer, C. (2019). The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors. United States: Crown Publishing Group. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CKuxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA204 204]</ref><ref>"The Enemy Within," Elena Lappin, the New York Times, May 23, 2004 https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/the-enemy-within.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</ref><ref>HuffingtonPost, Alan Dershowitz: Hezbollah's Goal: "Going After [the Jews] Worldwide," Aug 10, 2006 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/hezbollahs-goal-going-aft_b_26983.html</ref><ref>''CAMERA: Hassan Nasrallah: In His Own Words,'' Jul 26, 2006 http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=1158</ref><ref>Joseph Telushkin, ''Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History,'' HarperCollins (2008), p. 376, "On one noted occasion, Nasrallah had even encouraged Jews throughout the world to move to Israel on the grounds that 'If [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.' " https://books.google.com/books?id=bIHtJzYCkqEC&pg=PA376</ref><ref>Arthur Ledeen, ''Accomplice to evil: Iran and the war against the West,'' Macmillan (2009), p. 108 https://books.google.com/books?id=LOmDsgYzS7gC&pg=PA108</ref><ref>Robert S. Wistrich, ''A lethal obsession: anti-semitism from antiquity to the global Jihad,'' Random House Digital, Inc. (2010) https://books.google.com/books?id=Lzs48d3tudsC&pg=PT989</ref><ref>Alan Dershowitz, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220525183506/https://aish.com/48906402/ Hezbollah's Final Solution] ''Aish''. May 9, 2009.
*Krauthammer, C. (2019). The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors. United States: Crown Publishing Group. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CKuxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA204 204]</ref><ref>"The Enemy Within," Elena Lappin, the New York Times, May 23, 2004 https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/the-enemy-within.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</ref><ref>HuffingtonPost, Alan Dershowitz: Hezbollah's Goal: "Going After [the Jews] Worldwide," Aug 10, 2006 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/hezbollahs-goal-going-aft_b_26983.html</ref><ref>''CAMERA: Hassan Nasrallah: In His Own Words,'' Jul 26, 2006 http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=1158</ref><ref>Joseph Telushkin, ''Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History,'' HarperCollins (2008), p. 376, "On one noted occasion, Nasrallah had even encouraged Jews throughout the world to move to Israel on the grounds that 'If [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.' " https://books.google.com/books?id=bIHtJzYCkqEC&pg=PA376</ref><ref>Arthur Ledeen, ''Accomplice to evil: Iran and the war against the West,'' Macmillan (2009), p. 108 https://books.google.com/books?id=LOmDsgYzS7gC&pg=PA108</ref><ref>Robert S. Wistrich, ''A lethal obsession: anti-semitism from antiquity to the global Jihad,'' Random House Digital, Inc. (2010) https://books.google.com/books?id=Lzs48d3tudsC&pg=PT989</ref><ref>Alan Dershowitz, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220525183506/https://aish.com/48906402/ Hezbollah's Final Solution] ''Aish''. May 9, 2009.
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Hezbollah official on Hezbollah TV in Lebanon al-Manar: Your motivation for getting married and having children should be to produce "soldiers" for the Imam Mahdi.<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/hizbullah-official-kassir-motivation-getting-married-produce-children-soldiers-for-mahdi Hizbullah Official Abdullah Kassir: Your Motivation For Getting Married And Having Children Should Be To Produce Soldiers For The Imam Mahdi], ''Memri'', Feb 15, 2023.<blockquote>
Hezbollah official on Hezbollah TV in Lebanon al-Manar: Your motivation for getting married and having children should be to produce "soldiers" for the Imam Mahdi.<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/hizbullah-official-kassir-motivation-getting-married-produce-children-soldiers-for-mahdi Hizbullah Official Abdullah Kassir: Your Motivation For Getting Married And Having Children Should Be To Produce Soldiers For The Imam Mahdi], ''Memri'', Feb 15, 2023.<blockquote>
Hizbullah official Abdullah Kassir said on a February 15, 2023 show on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) that his motivation for getting married and having children was to "produce soldiers" for the Imam Mahdi, who is the messianic figure in Shi'ite belief. He explained that Sheikh Ragheb Harb, who was a senior Hizbullah commander in the early 1980s, used to say this as well, and the show's host responded: "This is the main strategic goal." Kassir also said: "Today, all the young people who wish to get married should take this advice." Abdullah Kassir has previously served as the chairman of Al-Manar TV's board, and he served one term as a Hizbullah MP. He currently serves as an assistant to Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hizbullah' Executive Council.</blockquote></ref>
Hizbullah official Abdullah Kassir said on a February 15, 2023 show on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) that his motivation for getting married and having children was to "produce soldiers" for the Imam Mahdi, who is the messianic figure in Shi'ite belief. He explained that Sheikh Ragheb Harb, who was a senior Hizbullah commander in the early 1980s, used to say this as well, and the show's host responded: "This is the main strategic goal." Kassir also said: "Today, all the young people who wish to get married should take this advice." Abdullah Kassir has previously served as the chairman of Al-Manar TV's board, and he served one term as a Hizbullah MP. He currently serves as an assistant to Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hizbullah' Executive Council.</blockquote></ref>
==Founding==
It is a transnational Shiite Islamist group founded on 1981 by Iran and following the ideology of absolute Wilayat al-Faqih, as expounded by Tehran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini.
Contrary to the narrative purported by the Islamic Republic of Iran and Hezbollah, the group was founded prior to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. The decision to establish Hezbollah was made in Tehran three years prior to the Israeli invasion. Khomeini appointed Ayatollah Ali Akhbar Montazeri to establish Hezbollah, dispatching him to Damascus, Syria, where the group was founded in 1981.
Since its inception, Hezbollah has engaged in terrorist activities, targeting its own and Iran’s enemies, both in Lebanon and abroad. Its activities have earned the organization and many of its members terror designations by the United States Departments of State and Treasury, as well as by other countries.<ref>[https://hezbollah.org/about-hezbollah About Hezbollah]. Jezbollah.org.<blockquote><small>
Lebanon-based Hezbollah is a transnational Shiite Islamist group founded by Iran and following the ideology of absolute Wilayat al-Faqih.
Lebanon-based Hezbollah is a transnational Shiite Islamist group founded by Iran in 1981, following the ideology of absolute Wilayat al-Faqih, as expounded by Tehran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini. Since its inception, Hezbollah has engaged in terrorist activities, targeting its own and Iran’s enemies, both in Lebanon and abroad. Its activities have earned the organization and many of its members terror designations by the United States Departments of State and Treasury, as well as by other countries.
Contrary to the narrative purported by the Islamic Republic of Iran and Hezbollah, the group was founded prior to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. The decision to establish Hezbollah was made in Tehran three years prior to the Israeli invasion. Khomeini appointed Ayatollah Ali Akhbar Montazeri to establish Hezbollah, dispatching him to Damascus, Syria, where the group was founded in 1981.
The group runs a vast social services network – including hospitals, schools, vocational institutions, and charities -- in predominantly Shiite areas of Lebanon, which has earned it the gratitude and support of a community traditionally neglected by the Lebanese state. Through its “Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc,” Hezbollah also holds parliamentary and ministerial representation in Lebanon’s government.</small></blockquote></ref>
Explained:<ref>[https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/the-birth-of-hezbollah/ The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center].
The Birth of Hezbollah.
Published: 19/01/2023. [https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/app/uploads/2023/01/E_017_23.pdf]
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The majority of studies conducted over the past four decades on Hezbollah, the radical Lebanese Shi’ite movement, and particularly on the factors leading to its inception, have concluded it was motivated by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
To a great extent, that thesis, which became accepted as fact, was based on a comment made by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who said, “When we entered Lebanon Hezbollah didn’t exist, we were welcomed with flowers and rice. It was our presence there that created Hezbollah.”
It became an important aspect of research into Hezbollah’s history, and one of its foremost proponents was Prof. Augustus Richard Norton. Norton taught international relations and anthropology at Boston University and served as an American military observer with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the UN force in south Lebanon in the early 1980s, and made his academic career around research into Shi’a in Lebanon.
The facts paint a different reality.
The historical truth is different. The decision to establish Hezbollah was made in Tehran three years before Israel invaded Lebanon. During the first months of Khomeini’s rule in Iran, his Council of the Islamic Revolution made the decision to export the revolution to the Arab world and found Islamic movements based on Iranian Islamic ideology. To implement the program he appointed Ayatollah Ali Akhbar Montazeri, whom at the time he regarded as his eventual successor. Montazeri established an extensive organizational network to construct and support “Islamic liberation movements” in the Arab world: Hezbollah Hijaz in Saudi Arabia, Hezbollah in Bahrain, Hezbollah in Kuwait and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In August 1981 Ali Akhbar Mohtashami, one of Khomeini’s close allies, was dispatched to Syria as the Iranian ambassador to Damascus. One of his missions was to found a new Shi’ite movement in Lebanon as an alternative to Amal. The Amal movement had been founded in 1974 by two Iranians, Musa al-Sadr and Dr. Mostafa Chamran, who was later appointed as the Iranian Republic’s first minister of defense. Iran needed a new movement because Amal inadvertently found itself in the middle of an internal Iranian power struggle and lost its supporters in Tehran to the radical clerics. They regarded Amal as a secular movement, refusing to recognize the concept of velayat-e faqih (the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) and loyal to the government in Lebanon, which Amal viewed as its true homeland.
Arriving in Damascus in 1981, barely a year before Israel invaded Lebanon, Mohtashami began forming the new Shi’ite movement, Hezbollah. Working from the Iranian embassy he established and operated Hezbollah, set up its Shura Council, which was called the Council of Lebanon and whose members were essentially the Hezbollah leadership, and chaired it until his ambassadorship ended in 1986.</small></blockquote></ref>
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The decision to establish Hezbollah was made in Tehran three years before Israel invaded Lebanon. During the first months of Khomeini’s rule in Iran, his Council of the Islamic Revolution made the decision to export the revolution to the Arab world and found Islamic movements based on Iranian Islamic ideology. To implement the program he appointed Ayatollah Ali Akhbar Montazeri, whom at the time he regarded as his eventual successor. Montazeri established an extensive organizational network to construct and support “Islamic liberation movements” in the Arab world: Hezbollah Hijaz in Saudi Arabia, Hezbollah in Bahrain, Hezbollah in Kuwait and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In August 1981 Ali Akhbar Mohtashami, one of Khomeini’s close allies, was dispatched to Syria as the Iranian ambassador to Damascus. One of his missions was to found a new Shi’ite movement in Lebanon as an alternative to Amal. The Amal movement had been founded in 1974 by two Iranians, Musa al-Sadr and Dr. Mostafa Chamran, who was later appointed as the Iranian Republic’s first minister of defense. Iran needed a new movement because Amal inadvertently found itself in the middle of an internal Iranian power struggle and lost its supporters in Tehran to the radical clerics. They regarded Amal as a secular movement, refusing to recognize the concept of velayat-e faqih (the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) and loyal to the government in Lebanon, which Amal viewed as its true homeland.
Arriving in Damascus in 1981, barely a year before Israel invaded Lebanon, Mohtashami began forming the new Shi’ite movement, Hezbollah. Working from the Iranian embassy he established and operated Hezbollah, set up its Shura Council, which was called the Council of Lebanon and whose members were essentially the Hezbollah leadership, and chaired it until his ambassadorship ended in 1986.</blockquote>
==Views & ideology==
==Views & ideology==