When you are in a hole, the best move is to stop digging. Bashar Assad obviously doesn’t not heed that advise and continues to dig a deeper hole. Despite warnings from Israel that they will not tolerate any shipments of advanced weapons to Hizb’Allah, Assad says he will do just that. He even claims that Syria will now be a “resistance” nation.
Israel’s alleged attack against Syria seems to have led President Bashar Assad to hunker down and more fully align his regime with the Iran-Hezbollah axis. As he fights for his regime’s survival, holding on to what some analysts say could become an Alawite ministate, he is publicly moving to a more hostile position vis-à-vis Israel and the West.
Assad told a local Lebanese paper that Syria was becoming a resistance state similar to the one Hezbollah has created in Lebanon.
We have decided that we must advance toward them and turn into a resistance nation like Hezbollah [did in Lebanon], for the sake of Syria and future generations,” Assad told the Al-Akhbar daily on Thursday, according to the Lebanese Daily Star.
He added that Syria would be cooperating more closely with Hezbollah, stating, “That’s why we have decided to give them everything.”
Assad can barely resist al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch al-Nusra Front, how the hell will he resist Israel.
Another clown is Hizb’Allah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who claims that his organization will help Assad take back the Golan Heights from Israel.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday his forces would support any Syrian effort to recapture the Israeli Golan Heights, days after Israel reportedly launched raids in Syria believed to have targeted weapons destined for the Lebanese militant group.
“We announce that we stand with the Syrian popular resistance and offer material and spiritual support as well as coordination in order to liberate the Syrian Golan,” he said in a televised speech.
Hizb’Allah’s forces can’t even defeat al-Qaeda, how will they help Assad take the Golan Heights? Assad and Nasrallah really are smoking some strong hash. They are both upset that that they can’t retaliate for Israel’s strike on Syria against Hizb’Allah weapons. Al-Nusra is giving them the fight of their lives and if they even think of starting a fight with Israel, it will not end well for Nasrallah and Assad.
Tags: al Nusra Front, Arab Spring, Bashar Assad, Golan Heights, Syrian War
