Israel cooperates with ISIL against Lebanese Hizbollah

Signs of military and political cooperation between Israel and ISIL are becoming clearer day after day. In fact, ISIL and Israel have so many reasons to become friends these days besides their two rhyming names.

One of these reasons is that both Israel and ISIL have repeatedly affirmed that their most dangerous enemy is Hizbollah. According to ISIL and other fellow Takfiri groups, Hizbollah, a Shia/ Shiite political and armed organization threatens the values and the traditions of “pure Islam”- by which they mean the values of Wahabi radical Sunni Islam.

ISIL has one more reason to hate the Lebanese group that much. Hizbollah, a long-time ally of Syrian president Bashar Assad, did anything but to stand by and watch the Syrian regime crumble down in what has become called “The Syrian Revolution.”

Since the outbreak of this civil war, Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah repeatedly warned that this was an Islamist uprising. Those days, the New York Times used to call the Syrian insurgents “rebels.” In the end, it turned out they were neither Syrians nor rebels. The Syrian armed opposition, as everybody knows today and as Hizbollah warned years ago, is made of Islamists coming from the world’s most radical countries.

In the winter of 2012-13, the intervention of Hizbollah in the Syrian conflict and the group’s support to the Syrian regime helped turn the tide against ISIL, Al-Nusra, and AlQaeda and paved the path for the “reconquista” of many cities by the Syrian secular regime.

This intervention angered many of the radical Islamist groups battling the Syrian regime to the level that they vowed retaliation. And retaliation came in the summer of 2013 with a series of bombings that targeted Beirut’s Shiite neighbourhoods.

Most radical Sunni clerics who are the godfathers of Al-Nusra, ISIL, and AlQaeda have repeatedly excommunicated the Shiite Hizbollah as heretic and called on a Sunnis to join a sacred war against the organization.

And the radical rabbis did not disagree with that. “Hizbollah is more dangerous than Al-Qaeda,” a right wing Israeli politician said.

Hizbollah, Iran, and the Syrian regime (the Shiite axis) are more dangerous than Israel, the radical Sunni clerics always say. They explain that Shiites are the enemy from within, and they are more dangerous than the enemy from without-by that they mean Israel and the West. 

Their calls are always answered, not by all Sunnis, but by most radical ones who believe they are the chosen few. In Irak, Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon, Shiites neighbourhoods always fall under heavy radical attacks.

Israel has a long history of enmity with Hizbollah. Israel most intense wars with its Arab neighbours after the ones with Egypt in the late sixties and early seventies were those that opposed it to Hizbollah. In the 1990s or 2006, Israel realized will be its most ferocious enemy.

Just like the IDF and ISIL, Hizbollah is equipped with much weaponry and a heavy bulk of religious dogma. Beating is very difficult. Weakening it by cooperating with the Syrian radical religious groups, who believe they are fighting a godly war against the Alawite Syrian president and Shiite Iran and Hzbollah, is very possible.

Beirut based Al-Mayadeen channel has often broadcast images originally broadcast on Israeli TV channels showing the Israeli PM visiting Syrian opposition fighters who were wounded in the battles against the Syrian army near the Golan and who were transferred to Israel to receive treatment.

Syrian army units have always complained that Al-Nusra Front fighters, the Syrian mutation of AlQaeda, were benefitting from fire cover by the IDF forces.

January 18^th, 2015, Israeli jets killed 5 Hizbollah leaders in Syria. This was not the first case in which Israeli jets attacked Hizbollah targets to help AlQaeda. It did it two years ago when it attacked a Syrian army position in Dir Ezzour, facilitating its capture by AlQaeda. In the same year, the IDF jets attacked a Hizbollah convoy who was heading to Syria to provide help to the Syrian regime against Al-Nusra Front. Brothers in beards!