"Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday “categorically” denied his terror group had stored any weapons or explosives at Beirut's port".
That is the GREATEST proof that he stored weapons at Beirut's port. He is a pathological liar so you can be sure that if he denied it, it's true.
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Thani Al Shirawi
ثاني الشيراوي
Dear Hassan Nassarallh, since you are in a state of war with Israel and some factions internally, why do you store weapons & explosives among civilians, as if your plan was to use civilians as human shields to protect your explosives?
ثاني الشيراوي
Dear Hassan Nassarallh, since you are in a state of war with Israel and some factions internally, why do you store weapons & explosives among civilians, as if your plan was to use civilians as human shields to protect your explosives?
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Israelhayom
Hezbollah is responsible for the devestating explosion in the Port of Beirut last week, the killed 145 people and wounded over 5,000, former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon asserted Friday, in an interview with Saudi outlet Elaph.
According to Ya'alon, a weapons depot belonging to the Iranian-backed terrorist group had caught fire and led to the ammonium nitrate stored in the port to blow up.
"Lebanon is not an independent state, it was taken hostage by Hezbollah," Ya'alon was quoted as saying, adding that Hezbollah was well aware of the massive nitrate stock in the port which is under its control.
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Times of Israel
A Lebanese blogger’s criticism of Hezbollah in the wake of the August 4 blast at the Beirut port went viral amid growing calls by Lebanese for political change in the country.
Dima Sadek, until last year an anchor on a popular political talk show before being let go for criticizing Hezbollah, remains a popular voice on Lebanese social media.
On Friday, she took to Twitter, where she has over 621,000 followers, with a video lashing Hezbollah as worse for Lebanon than the enemy across the border.
The video addressed the organization’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, after his speech denying claims that Hezbollah was responsible for the port explosion.
“I want to tell you one thing: if you can answer this question for the Lebanese people, then I swear, we will all bow down to you — I will bow down to you if you can answer this question,” she said in the clip. “What has Israel done against us that’s worse than you? Answer me.”
Sadek’s video was viewed more than 715,000 times by Monday.
The video led to media interviews. One interview, published Monday in the Italian daily La Repubblica, was headlined, “Israel is an enemy, but Hezbollah has done worse.”
In the interview Sadek insisted, “It’s not an exaggeration to say that Hezbollah is worse for Lebanon than Israel....."
She accused Nasrallah of flatly lying about Hezbollah’s culpability for the blast. “Hezbollah controls everything in this country. They know exactly what was at the port.”
Lebanese protesters, enraged by a deadly explosion blamed on government negligence, clash with security forces for the second evening near an access street to the parliament in central Beirut on August 9, 2020. (JOSEPH EID/AFP)
Sadek has regularly criticized Hezbollah and Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun, an ally of the group.
The August 4 blast left 220 dead, 7,000 injured and an estimated 300,000 homeless. It was among the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever recorded, damaging buildings for miles around, and left a crater in the heart of Beirut’s port.
Lebanon was already facing a dire economic emergency brought on by longstanding corruption, political dysfunction and the coronavirus pandemic. The destruction of the grain silos at the port reportedly left the country facing a food shortage as well.
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Prof. Eyal Zisser
Israelhayom
The city of Beirut has known its share of protests. Beginning with Hezbollah supporters hailing their leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who calls for the destruction of Israel, to the throngs of Lebanese citizens decrying the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in the spring of 2005, to the protests last winter, upon the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, when Lebanese youth took to the streets to voice their economic distress and demand profound governmental reform.
However, it's likely that Beirut has never seen a more justified and necessary protest than the one that erupted on Saturday, targeting corrupt politicians and demanding punishment for those responsible for the blast at Beirut port last week.
According to reports out of Beirut, the government was quick to arrest the port's manager and several of his deputies, but the protesters are unwilling to suffice with that and want the country's leaders, the same corrupt and rotten elites who have ruled over Lebanon from its inception, to face the music as well.
Hezbollah is counted among this ruling class, chiefly the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah's representatives have been part of various governments for around two decades, presiding over key ministries, and now Nasrallah is brazenly claiming he didn't know, see or hear a thing. In his speech on Friday, Nasrallah even tried to divert the conversation from the Beirut port to the Haifa port. But for the people of Lebanon, and even his fellow Shiites, Israel isn't remotely part of this conversation. Far more important to them is their lives and futures, which have been ruined and imperiled thanks to Nasrallah and his cohort.
It's not surprising that Hezbollah's Al-Manar television network has completely ignored the protests; further displaying the "credibility" that Israelis seem to love attributing to the terrorist organization and its leader. Al-Mayadeen, meanwhile, another network under Hezbollah's thumb, reported that the Zionist lobby in Washington is behind the protests in Beirut. It's no wonder that Hezbollah members tried forcibly dispersing the demonstrators, even opening fire on them.
With that, this spontaneous revolt is bereft of leaders or a large organizing force behind it, and doesn't have a concrete goal beyond the desire to oust the corrupt politicians and change the system. It's difficult, therefore, to assume they will now succeed where they've failed before.
The politicians are playing their customary joker card against the protesters: dispersing the government and calling for elections. They know that after elections they will return strengthened to their positions of power. After all, Lebanon is an ethnic and clan-based country, divided and splintered. Although the current protest appears sectorial in nature, Hezbollah's traditional Shiite and even Druze support base are extremely unhappy with Nasrallah. Yet, on election day, with no better choice and lacking any true alternative, they will continue to back him.
Regardless, one should not downplay the sight of Nasrallah's effigy being "hanged" in Beirut's Martyrs' Square on Saturday. Is this the beginning of the end for him? It's impossible to say, but it's certainly the end of the myth of the "defender of Lebanon" and the beguiling, unbeatable politician. In any case, this makes Nasrallah a wounded animal, and his weakness could impair his judgment.
