The Darkest Side Of Hezbollah: Freedom Fighters Or Militants?
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What makes a terrorist? Where is the line between terrorist and freedom fighter? These are the questions that surround Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group. Denounced as a terrorist organisation by dozens of nations from Saudi Arabia to the USA, its reputation for bombings, hijackings, and kidnappings has stood for decades. However, its defenders like Iran, Syria, and Russia insist that Hezbollah are freedom fighters opposing the intervention of imperialist foreign powers like Israel and the USA.
So what is Hezbollah? Where did it come from? What does it want? And what has it done to deserve a terrorist label? Today on A Day In History, we explore the rise and reputation of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia. If you enjoy it, don’t forget to leave a like to show your support and subscribe for more videos like this one.
Origins of Hezbollah
The story of Hezbollah begins with the Shia Muslim minority of Lebanon.
Until recently, Lebanon was a Christian majority nation with smaller Sunni and Shia minorities. The Shia have historically been the smaller group with high levels of economic inequality and low levels of political representation or power. They traditionally inhabited Southern Lebanon and the Northern Bekaa Valley, placing them near the border with Israel after 1948.
Unresolved religious conflict in Lebanon led to a civil war between the Lebanese government and several rival factions in 1975 that stretched on for the next 15 years. With Christians, Shias, and Sunnis taking up arms in a multi-factional struggle, backed by various foreign powers including Iran, Syria, and the US, it was one of the most complex conflicts of the 20th century. The chaos allowed Palestinian militants of the PLO, displaced from Palestine itself, to set themselves up in Southern Lebanon. The influence of these Islamist militants would encourage the Shia of the area to pursue their own militant course.
Things were further complicated by two major developments. First, the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1978-9 triggered a wave of revolutionary Islamic fervour across the Shia world. The new Iranian regime was eager to support like minded groups and threw its backing and resources into Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups. Second, Israel’s 1982 invasion of Southern Lebanon in response to attacks launched by Palestinian militants unified Muslims in the region against it.
Hezbollah’s exact origins in this chaos are unclear. It has no single founding date but scholars suggest it emerged no earlier than 1982. Other scholars insist that the elements that made up Hezbollah can’t be called a unified organisation before 1985 or so. However, modern Hezbollah is certainly descended from the tapestry of Shia militant groups that emerged in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion, and we’ll be taking that earlier date for our video.
#hezbollah #history #israelvshezbollah
Sources
Augustus Richard Norton, Hezbollah: A Short History, (2007)
Aurelie Daher, Hezbollah: Mobilization and Power, (2019)
Joshua L. Glies and Benedetta Berti, Hezbollah and Hamas: A Comparative Study, (2012)
Michael J. Totten, The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel, (2011)
Press Association, The Guardian, 9th December 2012, www.theguardian.com/world/201...
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Love this video! But it’s important to note that it wasn’t just a fight between “factions” in Lebanon. When the Palestinians were forced out of Jordan to Lebanon, the Muslim population grew exponentially. Muslims began setting up checkpoints, checking for Christian ID’s and then executing entire Christian families in Beirut. So Christian’s began defending themselves.
@@mg6md THATS TRUE THE MUSLIMS DO THIS IN EUROPE ALSO!!! KOSOVO MUSLIMS ALBANIAN MUSLIMS KILL AND DESTROY CHURCHES BUT USA , UK, GERMANY NEVER SAID A WORD!!! THE USA JUST NEED A MILITARY BASE TO SURROUND RUSSIA BUT HOW THEY STEAL OUR COUNTRY AND GIVE THE MUSLIM ALBANIAN OUR SERBIAN ORTHODOX LAND ABOUT THIS NO ONE TALK
"Supported by Iran, Syria and Russia" well what a nice line of moral countries
I was just about to say the same; all the good* guys together!
*subjective, obviously.
usa england and france histories arent much better
I'm starting to think a lot of history kinda sucks@@MikeHunt-fo3ow
@@MikeHunt-fo3ow they are factually the worst
@@Mani-tg4kq uneducated
In order to be labeled "Freedom Fighters", at the very least you need to actually be fighting for freedom.
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Lol they are ! It's only when you go against what the US wants then your a terrorist
Yup and they are.
@@_robustus_minorities' freedoms certainly not when they are supported by Iran, Russia, and Syria.It's proxies' wars since the Roman empire. Humans are a horrible disease.
And be pro western
Weird timing, the Arab League just took away their terrorism designation today...
The Middle East had conflict due to the wests corruption, country favouritism & morally corrupting leaders with threats & action throughout time. Times have changed & nobody wants the Palestinian apartheid to continue & illegal settlements. Without the wests instigations there would have been peace there long ago..
U.S. = doesn't know who their enemies are and how they work.
The enemy = infiltrates u.s. and uses the nations laws to stir up chaos.
Great job.
You would be surprised how many Media outlets are connected or just do what they have been paid to do(spreading a certain narative).
@kickassvideos5469 I think at this point if people are still unaware, they're really living with their heads buried in the sand
Putin even justifies Hitler if it benefits him
A wise man once said " If you cannot help the oppressed, do not lecture him about how to resist the oppression ".
Tough to juggle those concepts when everyone considers themselves oppressed, and it has little relationship to whether they actually are.
but what is the "oppressed" becomes the oppressor
Arab league removed the terror tag today
Which says a lot about what Arabs support.
What a well done documentatry
I$lam = Inhumanity
"Freedom fighters" my @$$😂
Has there ever been “Freedom fighters” the more I think about war the dumb it sounds
Well they fought their freedom from Israel.
You must be a morani from Lebanon, lol
I would tell you what makes a terrorist but CZcams threatens me withthe closing of my YT account if I do
Juden Golem's!
If people are excluded from their basic human rights, i do not condemn how they fight to get it back.
what rights were excluded from the Lebanese people?
Always the religion of peace and civilisation🤣
right, its always the monotheistic religions, christianity, islam and judiasim.
A great book on this matter is Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America, highly recommend checking it out
They don't care about the US, it's that Israel has dragged the US into it's problems. The US can send tourists and there would be no issues, just don't send your militants to bomb and spy on them. Seems like good immigration policy to me.
Sounds like a pattern is emerging.
Yeah, of the Middle East being sick of neocolonialism, and it resulting in an unending, self-perpetuating battlefield
@@striker7625 "before commenting"
Really? Would it really have been so hard for you to say that without being patronizing?
@@nicholasleclerc1583 And the "neocolonialism" Izlam is engaging in throughout the West? Do they vocalize any regret or need to change? Even about their own history of violent invasions and cleansing?
No wait England!! lol the British empire is why were in this position
Lebanon is what happens when christian countries don't close their borders. It's quite sad tbh.
PREACH!
Sh*t it.
Since the independence of Lebanon, Muslims were 46% of the population. Yes they were minority but with a close gap.
@@eagleclaw44 but with more and more muslims flooding into lebanon it becomes more and more unstable.
@@Blakmagic88 No
Says who Lebanon is christian country? Its Half muslim
There was NOT a “Palestine” until 1988.
If it existed then, where was the capital? Who was a leader? What monetary system did it have? What was a national food, song or tradition? Where is an archeological site?
NONE OF THESE THINGS EXIST FOR THE “PALESTINIAN” PEOPLE.
The Palestine Mandate was a colonial territory. The 1939 “Palestine” soccer team was ALL Jews.
PLO leader Zuhei Mohsen in 1977 interview w/ truew Magazine
"The Palestinian people do not exist. Between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese there are no differences. We are all part of one people, the Arab nation... Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism. The existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons."
Israel is not country as well lmao xD
The line is the last name of the people who own your newspapers
Genetic fallacy.
@@coffeehousedialogue5684wdym
I don’t understand
@@dukes1993724 He's blaming all of our knowledge of Hezbollah as terrorists on whether the source of the claim is owned by a Jew or not. It is a lazy means of dismissing valid criticism, nevermind how Jews are often divided on a lot of issues.
@coffeehousedialogue5684 I've seen your comments buddy. We know what side you belong
I thought that he was talking about the lil dude named hasbulla lmao.
TBH all sides are kinda dark tho 😂😂
Didn't they make a movie about this called The Delta Force back in the 1980s?
This needs to be a series
dont start no sxxt wont be no sxxt
That's what I was thinking, but you said it better.
Most lebanese hate hezbollah now.
Most of the military checkpoints were empty when I was there and nobody really talked about them either
Really? Have you even tried to resist them???
@@AMIRAzvar I don’t live there Shias and Sunni Muslims don’t agree on certain things which kind of makes people go to their respective areas I mostly stayed up in the middle and northern parts they’re all too poor to fight eachother they want affordable food and electricity
Most Sunni, Druze, and Christians, but also a growing number of Shia are not supporting Hezbollah.
Wow what an unbiased video😂😂😂
It was
Takiya
what an unbiased comment...
Haha i remember only a few years back Ukraine was always spoken about in a bad way, it all depends on how America feels at the time as to who is called terrorists
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WHO WAS IN IRAN IN THIS YEAR??? I THINK THE USA !!!!
As usual, the question depends on what side you're on.
not really, its like comparing a shackled vs unshackled pedophile
Last I checked, one of those (the Christian one) was focused mainly on internal Lebanese matters while the other (the Islamist one) wanted to strongarm Lebanon into intervening on the Arab world's behalf.
Imperialist vs the non imperialist
Sounds like the CIA
the u.s. and Uk have done similar if not way more heinous war crimes me crimes against humanity in general , ex human experimentation at La Princesa castle In Puerto Rico
absolutely. there really is no "good" military.
Free Lebanon from who?
From the ducking non existent Israeli settler land-thieves. How inhumane a person can be not to see the ugliest cruelties done by the power of money. People with no morality
I love it how he says after 1948 like Israel existed before that 😂😂😂😂😂
Northern Kingdom of Israel 9th century BCE…
@@The_Punisher6186 you can tell yourself that all you like Israel wasn't a sovereign terrorist nation before 1948
@@Ilovestuffnotthingsthough They were placed there by the British, calling them all terrorists is racist. There is terrorists in both countries, you are meant to support pro peace and democracy in both countries, they both have not had fair elections since around 2006
In -756 they existed unlike Palestinr
@@rdrenjoyer Palestine didn’t even exist back then, there was the philistine states, but the region was called Palestine by the Roman’s to mock the indigenous Jewish population
Can you make a video about the cobalt issues and the American genocides in the Congo?
What "genocide" in the congo? Making people work for companies (that isnt even from the US but from China and the Congo state itself)
Global's Idaho Cobalt Operations mine near Salmon, Idaho is the only US mine that the US controls that are in the USA not in the Congo
"Most of the cobalt the US and its allies use comes from mines that are owned or controlled by China or the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
You are pretty un-smart i see ;)
This is just what islam is.
radical islam
why conflate religion and political groups? Zionists but not all jews are genocidal maniacs for example.
funny how all this started after the west intervened in the middle east 🤭
@@brhn9452you think the Middle East was peaceful before the west? Did the west cause the sunnis and shi’a to split? Ethnic conflicts and internal ideological struggles? Arabs versus Persians? Although the western influence has no doubt affected the Middle East, you can’t just entirely blame the situation on the west.
@@billbilly2797 who gave mullah Power to conquer iran? who created hamas and israel? who invaded iraq and created isis? do you think in the ottoman empire it was the same as of now? ofc it was never perfect but not like now
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i try ask Chat gpt about the 1st terrorist attack in middle east
me: tell me the 1st terrorist attack in middle east
ChatGPT
The concept of terrorism and its historical context in the Middle East is complex and dates back centuries, but pinpointing the "first" terrorist attack in the region is challenging due to varying interpretations and definitions of terrorism.
However, one notable event often considered a significant precursor to modern terrorism occurred in 1946. Members of the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun, led by Menachem Begin, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which was the headquarters of the British Mandatory authorities in Palestine. The attack resulted in the deaths of 91 people, including British, Arab, and Jewish civilians.
This event is often cited as an early example of a terrorist attack in the modern Middle Eastern context because it targeted civilians and was carried out for political purposes, aiming to drive the British out of Palestine and establish a Jewish state.
SORRY BUT PLEASE DO A VIDEO ABOUT THE ZIONIST AND THEIR CRIMESWHAT THEY DID AND NOW DO, LIKE KIDNAPPING, KILLING THE CIVILIANS; THE JAIL WITH 10000 PALESTINIANS ETC
I HOPE YOU CAN DO SUCH A VIDEO AND CZcams WILL NOT MAKE YOU PROBLEMS!!! GOD BLESS YOU
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the answer to that question is much more complicated then just black and white. I personally dont support any modern day military group, because every single one is guilty of all the crimes listed in this video. thats the thing, if those crimes make this organization terrorist, then why arent western nations considered terrorist when they do the exact same thing on a larger scale. honestly what this group has done is no where near horrendous as some of the things the u.s military has done. and its definitely true that there are so many foreign influences affecting the actions of this group, and the politics of the middle east in general. why is israel not a terrorist group when they invade, kidnap and kill civilians? the thing is "terrorist" is just a political label, technically every military in the world can be considered a terroist based off their actions. my point is everyone involved in this are in wrong, there is no justification for senseless murder and conflict. its all for political control and power, and that does not justify such conflict.
The more freedom a country has the more Christians there are.
Hence why Britain's freedoms are diminishing. Blasphemy laws to be introduced and hidden as 'hate crimes'.
If Catholics and Orthodox also count as Christian, your statement is definitely not true.
😅 ok buddy
Apartheid South Africa has something to say about that. As do the Native Americans and the southern African Americans
@@rybread1727 I used to criticize it too, but obviously he's speaking about the present, not the past.
And he's correct. Obviously so.
You're trying to justify them
U wish to Delegitimize them ?
the clear lib, or left leaning of these report has me concerned with the reporting. seems to want to paint these terrorist being forced to show their evil colors but u can tell its trying its best to paint it in a nice light
???
Such a one sided documentary. Spastic
Which side was missing?
one sided? this whole video was supposed to be about that one particular group.
good content
4th, 30 June 2024
Not a word about the regime of terror imposed by Israel and its SLA mercenaries in southern Lebanon?
Israeli Arabs have more rights and liberties in Israel than in the PA(Fatah) controlled areas of the West Bank or Hamas controlled areas of the Gaza strip.
@@jb3883I'll name many
Indonesia
Malaysia
China(Xinjiang)
Kazakhstan
Krgyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Nigeria
Sudan
Congo
Beyond that in 30 Islamic nation that are suffering how many were invaded by U.S ; more or less all of them
This channel is dickriding the zionsit
He’s American what do you expect
boohoo christians defended themselves from muslims with israel's aid the horror
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Really?If I judge all the Christian country's by the act Of the Nazis regime will that be fair?
@@Phoeinix_M1 Nazis didn't take Christianity as their ideology and actually fought with the church. Moreover Hitler in his letters praised Islam as the perfect religion for nazis
Displaced from where? I don’t ever recall a country named Palestine? Only a British colony. The Bible states very clearly that Israel is home to the Israelites
israelite =/= jew
@@Michael420washington why do the first israeli prime ministers have the palestinian citizenship? 🤔
Yup that's something to think about @@brhn9452
You got us in first part, not gonna lie, but when you use Bible as quotable source of anything - you lost argument. As bible as historic material is full of bullshit. And they were Palestinians, as that peace of land has been called "Palestine/Philistia" from 12th century BCE. They do not have to have a country per say to call themselves people from said land. Same as Indians are from USA, but they call them selves Indians. And there are more then enough groups of people that do not have country, but have a land of their origin, and call them by name or their origin land, although their land are a part of other countries territory. Same as Palestinians.
@@emistety3985 Well said
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Good presentation.
R.I.P. U.S. Marines and others
Oct 23rd, 1983.
You need to mention all the
horrible warcrimes committed
by the u.s.-gov/military, also.
Our own u.s.-gov is seen as a
terrorist by most of the world
unfortunately
i try ask Chat gpt about the 1st terrorist attack in middle east
me: tell me the 1st terrorist attack in middle east
ChatGPT
The concept of terrorism and its historical context in the Middle East is complex and dates back centuries, but pinpointing the "first" terrorist attack in the region is challenging due to varying interpretations and definitions of terrorism.
However, one notable event often considered a significant precursor to modern terrorism occurred in 1946. Members of the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun, led by Menachem Begin, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which was the headquarters of the British Mandatory authorities in Palestine. The attack resulted in the deaths of 91 people, including British, Arab, and Jewish civilians.
This event is often cited as an early example of a terrorist attack in the modern Middle Eastern context because it targeted civilians and was carried out for political purposes, aiming to drive the British out of Palestine and establish a Jewish state.
What source do you have that suggests most of the world views the us as terrorists?
Its a Shia Militia.
15:18 based !
Their people defenders after they provoke an attack OK if they’re legitimate government, then doctor Lecter is a five star chef
“Terrorist” is just another colonist term used as justification to take land, similar to “Savages”
Brain dead
true, any country thats been to war has done "terrorist" actions.
I mean we're they wrong about Israel?
Yes Abdul
@@davie8906 righto davo 😂 btw the names brad not Abdul mate
@@davie8906 do you support to destroy hospitals and schools? Do you support to murder children, even burning them alive? To steal lands and homes?
@@GLOBAL-INTIFADA Apologies Brad.The misspelled "were" threw me. + The pro Hamas thing. & The intifadah name. you're a confuddled puppy! 🤨
@@GLOBAL-INTIFADA takyia at work on your part abdool.
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Whatvmake a terriost study the creation of isreal and united state and creation of the cia
What is Hezbollah? It’s ancient history. Soon forgotten. It just doesn’t know it yet…
This channnel should be mandatory for U.S students
Do you have the courage to make a single video of 106 massacres done by IDF. Guess not you are all the same 😂.
Jesus is God, get saved. If the world knew this, there would be no war or terrorism.
Catholics and Christian’s are the ones that go around colonising and forcefully converting people or killing them, stealing land and starting wars.
Peace keepers 😂