Posted on 12/15/2015 5:27:30 PM PST by TigerClaws
As much as one third of Hezbollah’s fighting force has been killed or injured fighting in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Avi Issacharoff reported Tuesday in The Times of Israel.
According to Issacharoff, Israeli sources estimate that between 1,300 to 1,500 members of the Iran-backed terrorist group have been killed in Syria, while an additional 5,000 have been injured. The surging casualty count has forced Hezbollah to deviate from past policy and release details on its losses. This past weekend, Arab media reported that over a dozen Hezbollah fighters were killed while battling ISIS near the Lebanese border. The fighter’s pictures were also published in Lebanese outlets.
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Excellent!
I was getting down.
Best news of the week! Now let’s hope for the remaining 2/3 of the hezbellah satanic scum to get sent to Hell ASAP!
There have been some tragic outcomes from the destabilization of Syria, but some of its effects are pretty useful.
Let them punch each other out, until they collapse.
Hezbollah was being trained by the same military that fought Iraq to a stalemate after 8 years, the same battle-hardened veterans that American forces wiped out in less than a week. The only surprise is that so many Hezbollah fighters are still alive.
This is good news.
I bet Israel is just loving this!
“The only surprise is that so many Hezbollah fighters are still alive.”
Maybe there has been selective thinning of their ranks - more of the ones with the balls to fight have been killed, while those who shirk have dis-proportionally survived.
http://www.cfr.org/lebanon/hezbollah-k-hizbollah-hizbullah/p9155
“Its recent involvement in Syria has raised the question: is it a Lebanese nationalist organization, or a group more interested in protecting Shiite interests throughout the Middle East?”
The US have always considered them to be a terrorist organization, but Obama & Company probably work with them, so if they are getting smoked—one-third are casualties—that can only be a good thing. Not for Obama, but for civilized people.
In the present Wonderland given to us by Dear Leader, Russia seems to be doing good things while we ... lead from behind. One more year of this nonsense left.
67% still ready for eternal departure.... POOOOF
Only fools like McCain, Obama, Graham, Clinton, Rubio believe in “moderate” jihadis.
We should have just stayed out, it was a win-win for us. Assad and Hezbollah against ISIS and assorted jihadist groups.
No, they are the terrorists that Iran is backing to help Assad.
How badly injured? Missing heads?
Helluva job, Hezzie. helluva job.
Finding it a lot tougher to root out sunni islamists village by village, house by house, highway checkpoint by highway checkpoint, hilltop by hilltop - than to lob rockets onto Israeli kibbutzim
There is always a silver lining.
Where I come from, we call this a slow start.
Love it when two or three or four evil Islamic forces kill each other.
Grab some Kosher hotdogs, a seltzer, and a scorecard. This could last a while.
dead mussie salute!
“Finding it a lot tougher to root out sunni islamists village by village, house by house, highway checkpoint by highway checkpoint, hilltop by hilltop - than to lob rockets onto Israeli kibbutzim”
Exactly. Probably up against a certain percentage of local boys too. Civil wars are nasty business.
I’ve wondered how good the Iranian Shi’ite infantryman is. Lots of doctrine and gaudy marching. Not all that impressive so far. The Kurdish girls seem to be more effective and without all the grandstanding.
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