Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumSeems Hezbollah is leaving Hamas to dangle.
You think it just MIGHT be because they see that bunch of nitwits as the LOSERS they are?
For a week, Israel and Hamas have engaged in a war in and around Gaza, one in which thousands of rockets and bombs have been expended, scores have died, and tens of thousands have been forced to take cover. But to the north in Lebanon, Hezbollah, the Islamic militia that rained destruction on Israel in a 2006 war, held its fire. Why?
The consensus among U.S. government analysts and academic experts is that Hezbollah, which has controlled the Lebanese government for more than four years, believes discretion is the better part of valor. As it has in the past, as in Israel's Cast Lead Operation against Hamas at the end of 2008, Hezbollah decided against creating a diversion that would have helped its like-minded but only sometime ally.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/20/15315678-analysis-why-hezbollah-is-sitting-on-40000-rockets-and-missiles-and-sitting-out-the-gaza-conflict?lite
Fozzledick
(3,879 posts)Shi'ite Hezbollah continues to support Assad, Sunni Hamas has turned against him because of his massacre of Syrian Sunnis.
BainsBane
(54,052 posts)To Lebanon they are going to need those rockets, or to defend themselves against a possible Israeli incursion. If Israeli is happy to use the Palestinians as victims for testing their misses and defenses for an impending/ possible war on Iran, it s possible that Lebanon could also be drawn into a conflict with Iran. Holding onto rockets make sense given what's happening on their borders.
I seriously doubt they share your assessment of Hamas as "nit wits." The Arab world doesn't get their news from US media. They are strongly pro-Palestinian.
Archae
(46,665 posts)If Israel disappeared, you know what Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and the rest of the radical groups in Arab countries would be doing?
Slaughtering each other.
ellisonz
(27,716 posts)...what's going on in Syria and Lebanon's perpetually unstable politics. Hezbollah isn't looking to piss off Israel and get hit upside the head again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War