Posted on 10/30/2024 12:55:52 AM PDT by Libloather
CNN - Hezbollah has named Shiite cleric Naim Qassem as leader, over a month after his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
The group’s Senior Council elected Qassem as secretary-general, Hezbollah’s media office said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that Qassem is committed to prophet “Mohammed’s authentic Islam” and the core principles of the group.
Qassem now leads a group once regarded as Iran’s most formidable proxy in its conflict with Israel – a force that, in recent weeks, has been significantly weakened by Israeli strikes, with top leaders killed, thousands of fighters wounded, and missile capabilities degraded. The group now faces an intense Israeli military campaign in southern Lebanon.
Responding to the announcement, Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant wrote on X: “Temporary appointment. Not for long.”
The cleric had long been the group’s second-in-command, serving as deputy chief to the late Nasrallah. He is one of the few leaders of the Iran-backed group to survive Israel’s recent onslaught on the organization, which saw some of its key figures assassinated.
“The organization was left with little choices in terms of the top tier clerics,” Mohanad Hage Ali, deputy director for research at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, told CNN, adding that Qassem was “a known face” and therefore his appointment was “a no-brainer choice for the organization.”
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How is the weather in Ukraine Bert? Oh wait, you aren’t there because you lack the courage of your convictions. Ukraine is taking all volunteers you creepy little armchair general. Don’t use the excuse that you too old because Ukraine is sending old men to the front.
Probably
It may become a day job
Your terrorist guys are being killed in large numbers and your Russian Military is the laughing stock of the world.
Of course you can’t understand any of this because it is happening beyond the intellectual perimeter of you metaphorical rock.
All of this is unrelated to you narrow fixation on your defeat in Ukraine. Your ineffective Russian Army suffered over ten thousand casualties last week alone.
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