Posted on 12/30/2015 1:26:04 PM PST by SeekAndFind
They joined to fight Israel in Lebanon, but after multiple combat tours in the Syrian cities of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, and around Damascus, Hezbollah reservists tell The Daily Beast that they are no longer willing to die in Syria's unending, bloody civil war.
As a result of their refusal to continue volunteering to prop up the embattled government of Bashar al-Assad, they say that the Shia Party of God has cut off the money they were accustomed to receiving: reservist paychecks and permanent family benefits packages. What other consequences there may be remain to be seen.
Imad, as we'll call him, crouched over a heating stove in a small Bekaa Valley farmhouse surrounded by the barren fields where his recently harvested crop of marijuana grew. He declined to give his real name because of his illegal trade and fear of reprisal for speaking out, but he said he decided to stop fighting after losing faith in the Syrian war six months ago.
When we talked to Imad in April, he was committed to supporting Assad's forces and fueled by a desire to exact revenge on jihadists who beheaded a relative in Lebanon's army after the soldier was captured in the Lebanese town of Arsal. Now, although he still wants to exact revenge, he has grown weary of the war and frustrated with Syrian government forces.
"I refuse to go back because when we take over a village and hand it to the Syrian army, it gets retaken [by rebel forces]," he says while fiddling with the stove that heats the small room. His decision, made in June, has cost him dearly and since then the school funding for his kids has been cut, his family medical benefits have been taken away, and heating subsidies evaporated.
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Nasrallah - what a stand-up guy - he hides in a bunker while sending his minions to a meaningless death in Syria.
The irony is rich with Hezbollah bleeding with no end in sight at the hands of Sunni jihadists.
Gotta love Islamic terrorists killing each other over arcane theological differences no one understands.
May they fight each other forever and may both sides lose.
Breaking up his hard to do
Neil Sedaka
Don’t take your love away from me
Don’t you leave my heart in misery
If you go then I’ll be blue
‘Cause breaking up his hard to do
Remember when you held me tight
And you kissed me all through the night
Think of all that we’ve been through
Breaking up is hard to do
They say that breaking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it’s true
Don’t say that this is the end
Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again
I beg of you, don’t say goodbye
Can’t we give our love another try
Come on baby, let’s start a new
‘Cause breaking up is hard to do
They say that breaking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it’s true
Don’t say that this is the end
Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again
I beg of you, don’t say goodbye
Can’t we give our love another try
Come on baby, let’s start a new
‘Cause breaking up is hard to do
Songwriters
Greenfield, Howard / Sedaka, Neil
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Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Go Now
Moody Blues
We’ve already said ‘Goodbye’.
Since you’ve got to go
Oh you had better go now.
Go now. Go now. Go now
Before you see me cry.
I don’t want you to tell me
Just what you intend to do now.
‘Cause how many times do I have to tell you
Darling, darling,
I’m still in love
With you now?
We’ve already said ‘So long’
I don’t want to see you go.
Oh you had better go now.
Go now. Go now. Go now
Don’t you even try telling me
That you don’t want me to end this way
‘Cause, darling, darling,
Can’t you see I want you to stay?
We’ve already said ‘Goodbye’.
Since you’ve got to go
Oh you had better go now.
Go now. Go now. Go now
Before you see me cry.
I don’t want you to tell me
Just what you intend to do now.
‘Cause how many times do I have to tell you
Darling, darling,
I’m still in love,
Still in love,
With you now?
I don’t want to see you go
But, darling,
You’d better go now.
Trump said last night that Islamic ‘fighters’ really didn’t want to die, and them added in emphasis ‘No, really.’
What I've been saying since the get go.
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die!.................
Oh Shia. Hezbollah has finally found out that it was conned into becoming Assad and Iran’s cannon-fodder in Syria.
After a reported 1,000 dead and many wounded, they woke up. A tear, a big F***ing tear for them.
And the stupids want to fight the Israelis? Saying “Still stuck on stupid” isn’t even a beginning to describe these urban camel-humpers.
Ask them why Nasrullah hasn’t physically joined the fighting in Syra? How do you say “COWARD” in Arabic?
a dead Hezbollah fighter is a gain for humanity. Die, SOBs, Die!
Opinion: Morons and Traitors [Nasrallah of Hezbollah losing his grip]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3293180/posts
Iran Tells Syria to Attack Israel on the Golan Heights
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3284258/posts
If Assad goes in Syria, then who backs Hezbollah in Lebanon? They’re surrounded by Israel and Sunni Extremists, they’ll be squeezed.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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