Hamas Building a Second Front Against Israel in Lebanon
5th October 2021
In recent days, a senior Iranian military commander boasted that his country has built “six armies outside its borders that work for it.”
The commander attributed the statement to Qassem Soleimani, the late commander of Iran’s overseas Quds Force, and went on to name these armies as Hizballah in Lebanon, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the Iranian-sponsored militias in Syria, the Iranian-backed militias of Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen.
What the officer did not say, however, is that one of these terror armies – Hamas – is busy building a second front against Israel in Lebanon, and that it is trampling on Hizballah’s toes in the process. While Hizballah monitors Hamas’s activities in Lebanon, this is not always sufficient to control its activities, and Hamas is capable of not giving Hizballah the “head’s up” before it uses Lebanon as a base to attack Israel.
Reminder: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology with which no co-existence is possible.