Violence will not stop in Middle East until Gaza war ends, senior Hezbollah figure warns

[Social Media]

 

In a candid and exclusive interview with Sky News, senior Hezbollah figure Ibrahim Moussawi delivered a stark warning: violence will persist in the Middle East until the Gaza war comes to an end. Moussawi, a spokesperson for Hezbollah, minced no words as he criticized Western powers, scoffed at Israel's actions, and cautioned against further escalation in the region.

 

According to Moussawi, the ongoing violence in the Middle East is intrinsically linked to the conflict in Gaza. He emphasized that until the root causes of the Gaza war are addressed, peace will remain elusive. Moussawi also issued a stern warning to Israel, asserting that continued provocation of Iran will yield significant consequences.

 

 

Moussawi highlighted the complex dynamics at play, suggesting that Western powers are primarily motivated by their own strategic interests rather than genuine humanitarian concerns. He criticized Western countries for their complicity in supplying Israel with military equipment, which he argues perpetuates the cycle of violence in the region.

 

For Moussawi, the responsibility for de-escalating the crisis rests squarely with the West. He called on Western governments to halt their support for Israel and to intervene decisively to end the aggression against Gaza. Moussawi argued that only by addressing the underlying causes of the conflict can lasting peace be achieved.

 

Regarding recent Israeli strikes in Iran, Moussawi downplayed their significance, suggesting that they were aimed at saving face rather than achieving any meaningful military objective. He expressed skepticism about the efficacy of such actions and emphasized the need for a more constructive approach to resolving regional tensions.

 

Moussawi's comments offer a sobering assessment of the current situation in the Middle East. Against a backdrop of escalating violence and geopolitical maneuvering, his words serve as a reminder of the urgent need for dialogue, diplomacy, and concerted international action to de-escalate tensions and pave the way for a lasting peace in the region.

 

2024.04.20

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[Skipalongcassidy]

"According to Moussawi, the ongoing violence in the Middle East is intrinsically linked to the conflict in Gaza. He emphasized that until the root causes of the Gaza war are addressed, peace will remain elusive."

Then all he has to do is have the hateful terrorist muslims stop murdering people and there will be peace.

[Albaby]

When all the muslims convert to Christianity, Buddhism Hinduism etc, there will be peace.

[wombat]

I can't ever see that happening

[wombat]

6 minutes ago, Albaby said:

When all the muslims convert to Christianity, Buddhism Hinduism etc, there will be peace.

 

[soalbundy]

18 minutes ago, Albaby said:

When all the muslims convert to Christianity, Buddhism Hinduism etc, there will be peace.

Why? Christians have shed a lot of blood in the middle east especially during the crusades when it was sanctified by the pope. Buddhists and Hindus don't try converting others so no chance there. There has always been violence in the middle east since the middle ages, why should it stop now?

[john donson]

7 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

Why? Christians have shed a lot of blood in the middle east especially during the crusades 

 

apparently NOT ENOUGH

[newbee2022]

7 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

"According to Moussawi, the ongoing violence in the Middle East is intrinsically linked to the conflict in Gaza. He emphasized that until the root causes of the Gaza war are addressed, peace will remain elusive."

Then all he has to do is have the hateful terrorist muslims stop murdering people and there will be peace.

...and where are the hateful murdering Muslims?

All what I can see are hateful murdering Jews! 😳

[Albaby]

Christianity has reformed over  the centuries. Islam has not.

[soalbundy]

4 minutes ago, john donson said:

 

apparently NOT ENOUGH

Before or at the beginning of the middle ages the Arab world was THE seat of learning and progress, Christians, Muslims and Jews all lived peacefully together. Great progress was made there in physiology, astronomy, mathematics and philosophy.....unfortunately much has changed, politics and religion are great hindrances to peace and knowledge....oil hasn't helped much either.

[soalbundy]

8 minutes ago, Albaby said:

Christianity has reformed over  the centuries. Islam has not.

Christianity was dragged screaming and kicking into the modern world by the light of reason and science and even then it took hundreds of years (and deaths). In America there are still many places where the reformation and the age of reason hasn't yet arrived. You say reformed....an interesting quote by Sri Nisargadatta a 20th century Indian spiritual teacher, "That which is real doesn't change, that which changes isn't real". He wasn't referring to religion which becomes apparent when another of his quotes is read, "You are not the body nor are you the mind...there is no body".

[IAMHERE]

35 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

There has always been violence in the middle east since the middle ages, why should it stop now?

I thought the violence went way further back in time. At least as far back as the Jews with the Ark of the Covenant destroyed (genocide?) entire groups of people at God's suggestion( was he that gave them the power of the Ark).

[klauskunkel]

7 hours ago, Social Media said:

senior Hezbollah figure Ibrahim Moussawi delivered a stark warning: violence will persist in the Middle East until the Gaza war comes to an end.

I don't think so.

Here is a short list of List of modern conflicts in the Middle East, note: only since 1902

 

 

Date	Conflict	Location	Casualties
1902–1932	Unification of Saudi Arabia[a]	Riyadh  Hejaz  Kuwait  Nejd  Transjordan  Mandatory Iraq  Nejd and Hejaz	8,000–9,000
1909–1910	Zaraniq rebellion	Ottoman Empire	830+
1914–1918	Middle Eastern theatre of World War I[p]	Ottoman Empire  Persia  Egypt  Nejd and Hasa  Jabal Shammar  Kuwait  Lahej  Armenia  Azerbaijan	Ottoman Empire deaths including civilians: 2,825,000[3][4][5]–5,000,000[6] Allied killed, wounded, captured or missing: 1,000,000–1,500,000 [citation needed] Persians died by famine or disease, excluding influenza: 2,000,000[7][8][9]
1918–1922	Simko Shikak revolt[10]	Persia	1,000–5,500
1919	Egyptian Revolution of 1919[11]	Egypt	3,000
1919–1923	Turkish War of Independence [b]	Ottoman Empire  Greece  Armenia  Soviet Union	170,500–873,000
1919–2003	Iraqi–Kurdish conflict [c]	Mandatory Iraq  Kingdom of Iraq  Iraq  Kingdom of Kurdistan	139,000–320,000 killed
1920	Franco-Syrian War	Arab Kingdom of Syria  OETA	5,000
1920	Iraqi revolt against the British[12][13]	Mandatory Iraq	2,050–9,000
1921–1948[l]	Sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine	Mandatory Palestine	7,813
1923	Adwan Rebellion	Transjordan	100
1925–1927	Great Syrian Revolt (Druze War)[14]	Greater Lebanon  State of Syria  Jabal Druze  Alawite State	8,000–12,000
1925	Sheikh Said rebellion[15]	Turkey	15,000–250,500
1930	Ararat rebellion[16][17][18][19][20]	Turkey  Republic of Ararat	4,500–47,000
1933	Simele massacre[21]	Kingdom of Iraq	3,000
1934	Saudi-Yemeni War[22]	Saudi Arabia  Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen	2,100
1935	Imam Reza shrine rebellion[23]	Iran	151
1935–1936	1935–1936 Iraqi Shia revolts	Iraq	500
1935	1935 Yazidi revolt[21]	Iraq	200
1936	1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
1937	Dersim rebellion[24]	Turkey	40,000–70,000
1939–1945	Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II ·       Italian invasion of Egypt ·       Bombing of Bahrain in World War II ·       Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II ·       Anglo-Iraqi War ·       Syria–Lebanon campaign ·       Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran	Iraq  Iran  French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon  Mandatory Palestine	≈16,000[citation needed]
1946	Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
1946	Egyptian Student Riots[25][26]	Egypt	100–300
1946	Iran crisis of 1946[2][15][e]	Iran  Republic of Mahabad  Azerbaijan People's Government	2,000
1948–	Arab–Israeli conflict[f]	Egypt  All-Palestine Government  Egypt  United Arab Republic  Syrian Republic  Ba'athist Syria  Jordan  Lebanon  Israel  Palestinian Authority	73,000–84,000
1948	Alwaziri coup[2]	Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen	4,000–5,000
1948	Al-Wathbah uprising	Iraq	300–400
1952	Egyptian revolution of 1952[2]	Egypt	1,000
1953	1953 Iranian coup d'état[2][15][27]	Iran	300–800
1954–1960	Jebel Akhdar War[15]	Muscat and Oman	100–523
1955–1959	Cyprus Emergency[28][29]	Cyprus	400–600
1956	Suez Crisis
1956–1960	Yemeni–Adenese clan violence[2]	Aden	1,000
1958	1958 Lebanon Crisis[2][11][29]	Lebanon	1,300–4,000
1958	1958 Iraqi Revolution[2]	Arab Federation	100
1959	1959 Mosul uprising[2]	Iraqi Republic	2,000–4,000
1962–1970	North Yemen Civil War[30][31][g]	North Yemen  Saudi Arabia  Egypt	100,000–200,000
1962–1975	Dhofar Rebellion[15]	Oman	10,000
1963	1963 Riots in Iran[15]	Iran	100
1963	February 1963 Ba'athist Iraqi coup[32]	Iraq	1,000
1963	8th of March Syrian Revolution[33]	United Arab Republic  Syria	820
1963–1967	Aden Emergency[34]	Federation of South Arabia  South Yemen	2,096
1963	November 1963 Iraqi coup[32]	Iraq	250
1964	1964 Hama riot[35][36]	Syria	70–100
1966	1966 neo-Ba'athist coup d'état in Syria[15]	Syria	400
1966	1966 Arif Abd ar-Razzaq second coup[37]	Iraq	80–100
1970–1971	Black September[29]	Jordan	2,000–25,000
1972	Yemenite War of 1972	South Yemen   North Yemen	100+
1974	Turkish invasion of Cyprus[22][38]	Cyprus	1,500–5,000
1974	Shatt al-Arab clashes[39]	Iran	1,000
1975–1990	Lebanese Civil War[40][h]	Lebanon	150,000
1976–1980	Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980)[41][42][43]	Turkey	5,000–5,388
1978–1982	NDF Rebellion	North Yemen	100+
1978–	Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)[44]	Turkey  Iraqi Kurdistan  Iraq	30,000–100,000
1979	Yemenite War of 1979	South Yemen   North Yemen	1,000+
1979	Iranian Revolution[45][46]	Iran	3,164–60,000
1979–1980	Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution [i]	Iran	10,171
1979–1983	Saudi Eastern Province unrest[47]	Saudi Arabia	182–219
1979	Grand Mosque seizure[48]	Saudi Arabia	307
1979–1982	Islamist uprising in Syria	Syria	40,000+
1980	1980 Turkish coup d'état[49][50]	Turkey	127–550
1980	1980 Sadr uprising[51]	Iraq	1,000–30,000
1980–1988	Iran–Iraq War[22][52][j]	Iran  Iraq  Kuwait	1,000,000–1,250,000
1986	South Yemen Civil War[53]	South Yemen	5,000–12,000
1986	1986 Egyptian Conscription Riot[54]	Egypt	107
1986	1986 Damascus bombings[55]	Syria	204
1987	Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca massacre)[56]	Saudi Arabia	402
1987–1988	ANO Executions	Lebanon  Syria	170
1989–1996	KDPI insurgency (1989–1996)	Iran	168–503
1990–1991	Gulf War[40]	Iraq  Kuwait  Saudi Arabia	40,000–57,000
1991	1991 Iraqi uprisings[51][57]	Iraq	50,000–100,000
1994	1994 civil war in Yemen	Yemen	7,000–10,000
1995–	Islamic Insurgency in Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	300
1998	Operation Desert Fox[28][29] (Iraqi no-fly zones)	Iraq	2,000
1999	1999 Shia uprising in Iraq[15][58]	Iraq	100–200
2003–2011	Iraq War[59][60][61][62][63][64][k]	Ba'athist Iraq  Iraq	109,032–650,726 See also: Casualties of the Iraq War
2004	Qamishli massacre (2004)[65][66]	Syria	30–100
2004–2014	Shia insurgency in Yemen[67][68][69]	Saudi Arabia  Yemen	8,500–25,000
2004–	Iran–PJAK conflict[70]	Iran	588–747
2006–	Fatah–Hamas conflict[71][72]	Palestinian Authority  Gaza Strip	600+
2006–	Iran–Israel proxy conflict	Iran  Israel	≈2000
2007	Nahr al-Bared fighting	Lebanon	480
2008	2008 Lebanon conflict	Lebanon	105
2009–2015	South Yemen Insurgency[73]	Yemen	2,100+
2010–2015	Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown[74][75]	Yemen	3,000+
2011	2011 Bahraini uprising	Bahrain  Saudi Arabia	100+
2011–	Shia insurgency in Bahrain	Bahrain	22+
2011–2014	Egyptian crisis (2011–14)[m]	Egypt	7,000+
2011–	Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)[a]	Yemen	9,000+
2011–	Syrian Civil War[n]	Syria	503,064–613,407 +
2011–2017	Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon	Lebanon	≈800
2011–	Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict	Saudi Arabia  Iran
2013–2017	War in Iraq (2013–2017)[n]	Iraq	155,500–165,500+
2015–	Yemeni Civil War[b] ·       Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen	Yemen  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates	377,000+
2016–	Western Iran clashes	Iran	74–156
15–16 July 2016	2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt	Turkey	270–350
2017	2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	Iraq	+305
2017–	Iraqi insurgency (2017–present)	Iraq	4,000+
2023–	Israel–Hamas war[c]	Israel  West Bank  Gaza Strip	34,000+
2023–	Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)	Israel  Lebanon	400+
2023–	Red Sea crisis	Yemen  Israel Red Sea Gulf of Aden	40+
2024–	2024 Iran–Israel conflict	Iran  Israel  Jordan  Syria  Iraq  Yemen  Lebanon	20+

[soalbundy]

2 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

I thought the violence went way further back in time. At least as far back as the Jews with the Ark of the Covenant destroyed (genocide?) entire groups of people at God's suggestion( was he that gave them the power of the Ark).

Yes but that flavour of violence was world wide, man is a very violent animal, one would have to go back as far as the era of the hunter gatherers, before land possession, to find relative peace among humans. peaceful coexistence as exhibited in some Arab nations at that time was quite rare and didn't last long, the one overarching similarity among human beings is greed, it is even apparent in small children, it isn't taught, unlike religion or racism which isn't inherent in children.

[malathione]

What a ridiculous statement. Want peace in the Middle East (relative peace)? Destroy Iran and all of its proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, et al.

[loong]

2 hours ago, Albaby said:

When all the muslims convert to Christianity, Buddhism Hinduism etc, there will be peace.

If a savage muslim converts to Christianity, Buddhism Hinduism etc, they will probably still be a savage!

[candide]

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

Why? Christians have shed a lot of blood in the middle east especially during the crusades when it was sanctified by the pope. Buddhists and Hindus don't try converting others so no chance there. There has always been violence in the middle east since the middle ages, why should it stop now?

Never heard about violence against Muslims in India and Myanmar? Even what seems to be the most tolerant religion (Buddhism) is not exempt of religious violence.

The main issue is not so much religion itself, than people (usually men) who want to have power by using religion.

[loong]

1 hour ago, newbee2022 said:

...and where are the hateful murdering Muslims?

All what I can see are hateful murdering Jews! 😳

Did you miss what happened on the 7th of October last year? You don't think that it was hateful, murdering Muslim savages that attacked Israeli citizens? The Palestinians started the war and what did they expect Israel to do? Slap their hands and ask them not to do it again?

[soalbundy]

3 minutes ago, candide said:

Never heard about violence against Muslims in India and Myanmar? Even what seems to be the most tolerant religion (Buddhism) is not exempt of religious violence.

The main issue is not so much religion itself, than people (usually men) who want to have power by using religion.

Yes indeed, violence isn't reserved to one region or one religion (although Buddhism is an outlier because firstly it is a philosophy [a spiritual one without a God] not a religion as such and secondly violent episodes involving Buddhism as a movement is rare). Religious violence is always emotional among the sheep which can be often used by powerful entities for wealth and power, even a dictator needs a moral excuse for a land grab. Having said that religions are a powerful unifying factor in a society which gives it stability, which is why it was invented and why non believers are burnt at the stake or beheaded, non believers threaten society's stability

[candide]

2 hours ago, soalbundy said:

Before or at the beginning of the middle ages the Arab world was THE seat of learning and progress, Christians, Muslims and Jews all lived peacefully together. Great progress was made there in physiology, astronomy, mathematics and philosophy.....unfortunately much has changed, politics and religion are great hindrances to peace and knowledge....oil hasn't helped much either.

Arabs were rather smart at that time (and later the Ottomans). They were governing very large territories, but actually they were very few people. So they had to find ways to be accepted by the local people. Hence the special status granted to  Christians and Jews. For the same reason, they initially had very few scientists, writers, artists and administrators.

 

They also were often smart about conversions. Non-Muslim were tolerated, but had some economic drawbacks, such as paying more tax or being barred from lucrative occupations, so there was a strong economic motive to convert to Islam.

Edited April 20 by candide

[newbee2022]

35 minutes ago, loong said:

Did you miss what happened on the 7th of October last year? You don't think that it was hateful, murdering Muslim savages that attacked Israeli citizens? The Palestinians started the war and what did they expect Israel to do? Slap their hands and ask them not to do it again?

We are now in 2024. April. Where have you been in the meantime????😳

You missed the massacre, murdering 30.000 of innocent women and children in Gaza?? 😳

 

[Wobblybob]

1 minute ago, newbee2022 said:

We are now in 2024. April. Where have you been in the meantime????😳

You missed the massacre, murdering 30.000 of innocent women and children in Gaza?? 😳

 

And your point is meaningless, there are still Hamas terrorists to be despatched or captured, there are hostages to retrieve and more to the point you are parroting the figures of the lying terrorists themselves.

You might want to conveniently forget 7/10 but it will never be forgotten by the families and people who choose not to excuse these phycopathic monsters.

[coolcarer]

8 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

We are now in 2024. April. Where have you been in the meantime????😳

You missed the massacre, murdering 30.000 of innocent women and children in Gaza?? 😳

 

I also missed the the murdering massacre of 30,000 women and kids yet I’ve been following this since 10th Oct.

[Nick Carter icp]

16 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

We are now in 2024. April. Where have you been in the meantime????😳

You missed the massacre, murdering 30.000 of innocent women and children in Gaza?? 😳

 

 

   That isn't true , that is Hamas lies .

Do not believe anything Hamas  say , its unlikely to have any truth in it what so ever 

[soalbundy]

5 minutes ago, candide said:

Arabs were rather smart at that time (and later the Ottomans). They were governing very large territories, but actually they were very few people. So they had to find ways to be accepted by the local people. Hence the special status granted to  Christians and Jews. For the same reason, they initially had very few scientists, writers, artists and administrators.

 

They also were often smart about conversions. Non-Muslim were tolerated, but had some economic drawbacks, such as paying more tax or being barred from lucrative occupations, so there was a strong economic motive to convert to Islam.

Rather like the Jews in Europe, the only occupation left to them was as money lenders to the powerful which on the one side made them wealthy but made them vulnerabel (a pogrom could get rid of ones debt). The Templers found that out when the French king decided his debt was too large and they had a lot of land and cash. The Arabs certainly had astronomers, how else do you navigate through the desert if not by the stars. Their doctors, unlike the Europeans, had no qualms about dissecting dead bodies which increased their knowledge of the human body, many European doctors traveled there to learn from them. They also had good craftsmen and even traded with the Vikings (who they found to be dirty and violent). They had philosophers and writers, a famous one would be a Persian tent maker Omar Kyem who wrote the Rubaiyat of Omar Kyem, most people know the first line of one of his verses even today :-

'The moving hand doth write

and having writ moves on

nor all your piety nor wit shall cancel half a line

nor all your tears wash out one word of it'

He rebutted regret or the use of repentance, what's done is done, in fact he was rather scathing of religion in general, a wonder he survived.

[xtrnuno41]

The only religion is money, wealth for a few.

Religion with a god is a tool to work with. You indoctrinate, control, manipulate people with it.

All countries have "leaders" and groups with their own personal gain(dictators). Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[newbee2022]

42 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   That isn't true , that is Hamas lies .

Do not believe anything Hamas  say , its unlikely to have any truth in it what so ever 

You're blind, blond and deaf? 😂😂😂. The figures are confirmed by Israel. You think both are telling lies? Israelis and Hamas? 😂😂😂 Oh dear

[Nick Carter icp]

Just now, newbee2022 said:

You're blind, blond and deaf? 😂😂😂. The figures are confirmed by Israel. You think both are telling lies? Israelis and Hamas? 😂😂😂 Oh dear

 

   Neither Israel or Hamas have stated that 30 000 innocent woman and children have died .

You are mistaken in what you read .

You can post a link if you want and I will point out your mistake for you 

[newbee2022]

Just now, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Neither Israel or Hamas have stated that 30 000 innocent woman and children have died .

You are mistaken in what you read .

You can post a link if you want and I will point out your mistake for you 

😂😂😂 Ask Netanyahu 😂😂😂. Honestly, the UN said this, Hamas said it, and Israel said it. There are all a bunch of liars? All governments around the world lie? Wow, it's not often that I met somebody ignoring the reality.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war#:~:text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20casualties,at%2066%25%20of%20those%20killed.

[Nick Carter icp]

Just now, newbee2022 said:

😂😂😂 Ask Netanyahu 😂😂😂. Honestly, the UN said this, Hamas said it, and Israel said it. There are all a bunch of liars? All governments around the world lie? Wow, it's not often that I met somebody ignoring the reality

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel–Hamas_war#:~:text=The vast majority of casualties,at 66% of those killed.

 

   Those are the total number of causalities , everyone who has died in the war .

Hamas terrorists , Palestinian civilians , IDF , hostages and Israeli civilians .

30 000 odd people who have died in the war

You claimed that it was 30 000 innocent woman and Children in Gaza who have died  .

There , I have pointed out your mistake, as I said I would .

About 13 000 of that 30 000 were Hamas members