Is Hezbollah About To Drop It's Support Of The Assad Regime?

In Hizbollah’s South Beirut stronghold Mr Assad is still a hero Photo: Ali Hashisho/REUTERS

Hizbollah Debates Dropping Support For The Regime Of President Bashar al-Assad -- The Telegraph

Hizbollah has been one of the staunchest supporters of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, but now there are bitter arguments within its ranks about whether it is time to change course.

The giant banner with a portrait of Bashar al-Assad, strung across a busy street in South Beirut, proclaimed loyalty to the Syrian president — and cursed his enemies.

“Those who hate the Lion of Syria are sons of bitches,” it read, in Arabic slang with a play on the meaning of the Assad name.

Elsewhere in the Arab world he may be hated as a bloody tyrant, but in Hizbollah’s South Beirut stronghold Mr Assad is still a hero.

A couple of streets away, the British hostage Terry Waite was held captive for four years until his release in 1991, and nearby is the site of the notorious massacre of Sabra and Shatila where perhaps as many as 3500 people were murdered by pro-Israeli militias in 1982.

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My Comment: I doubt that they will withdraw their support of Assad .... they are both mutually dependent on each other. But Hezbollah is concerned about talk from Europe on designating their organization as a terrorist group, a prospect that would severely limit their access to resources that they sorely need. What's my take .... by raising the suggestion that they may drop their support of the Assad regime they may be looking for some quid pro quo .... my suggestion to Europe .... do not believe them.