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Israel/Palestine

shira

(30,109 posts) Sat Aug 3, 2013, 10:31 AM Aug 2013

Pressed on Syria, Hezbollah Leader Urges Focus on Israel

In a rare public appearance on Friday, Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, urged Arabs and Muslims to stay focused on opposing Israel despite bitter disagreements over the Syrian war, and declared that his Shiite followers would not bend in the face of rising anti-Shiite sentiment among those who oppose his support for the Syrian government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/world/middleeast/under-fire-on-syria-hezbollah-leader-urges-focus-on-israel.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

"Please avert your eyes from the Muslims and Palestinian refugees we are now killing throughout Syria and focus on the Jews down south, please. Nothing to see here!"

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