How Palestinians Are Trying to Destroy Lebanon

by Bassam Tawil 

• According to these reports, Hamas could not have carried out the rocket attack without the blessing of Hezbollah, Iran's terror proxy in Lebanon.
• "[T]here are those who seek to turn Lebanon into a military base. What [Hamas] did [by firing missiles at Israel] will be an incentive for other organizations to carry out similar military actions that could drag Lebanon into disaster." — Elie Mahfoud, a lawyer for Sovereign Front for Lebanon, Asharq Al-Awsat, April 24, 2023.
• Hezbollah has proven that it is the only authority in Lebanon and that the Islamic Republic of Iran controls all aspects of the country." — Kheirallah Kheirallah, veteran Lebanese journalist, Al Arabiya, April 9, 2023.
• Kheirallah also took the Lebanese foreign ministry to task for protesting against Israel when it fired back "instead of asking itself what Hamas and its rockets are doing in Lebanon."
• The bad news... is that Lebanon will continue to be used by Iran's ruling mullahs and their proxies as a launching pad to attack Israel as long as the Lebanese people do not rise up against them.
• More bad news: this is exactly what will happen if and when a Palestinian state is established next to Israel. This new state will be use by Iran and its terrorist militias as a base for attacking Israel and killing as many Jews as they can.

Last month, rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel. Several reports suggest that Hamas was behind the attack, and that Hamas could not have carried it out without the blessing of Hezbollah, Iran's terror proxy in Lebanon. Pictured: Lebanese soldiers stand next to a truck carrying a multiple rocket launcher after confiscating it from Hezbollah terrorists, in Shouayya, Lebanon, on August 6, 2021. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images)

Many people in Lebanon are worried that the Iranian-backed Islamist group Hamas and other Palestinian terror factions might drag Lebanon into another war with Israel.

The concern was expressed after several rockets were fired in early April from south Lebanon into Israel. Several reports have suggested that Hamas was behind the rocket attack. According to these reports, Hamas could not have carried out the rocket attack without the blessing of Hezbollah, Iran's terror proxy in Lebanon.

The voices condemning Hamas for using Lebanon as a launching pad to attack Israel reflect the widespread fear in Lebanon of engaging in another war with Israel, especially as the country faces an unprecedented economic crisis. According to a March 2023 report in Axios:

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