Assassinated under U.S. command: Nasrallah murdered in apocalyptic bomb attack

The U.S. was behind the Sept. 27 assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an apocalyptic bombing attack using 85 U.S.-built and supplied BLU-109 bunker-buster bombs in a residential area of Beirut. 

Nasrallah had led the Lebanon-based liberation organization for 32 years. His assassination was part of a broader massacre, as the same Israeli airstrikes resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of Lebanese civilians.

The same attack that resulted in Nasrallah’s death also took the life of Brigadier General Abbas Nilforooshan, the deputy chief of operations for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Council. 

Nasrallah’s daughter, Zainab Nasrallah, was also killed.

Israeli airstrikes in the following days killed Hamas’ leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, along with his family. Another Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) military security chief, Mohammad Abd al-Aal, military commander Imad Odeh, and  Abdelrahman Abd al-Aal.

On Oct. 1, the Associated Press reported that the Israeli Occupation Force “has moved into southern Lebanon … opening a new front” in its war on the people of Palestine and of Lebanon. 

Nasrallah’s assassination was ordered from New York City by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where he appeared before a nearly empty U.N. General Assembly meeting. Netanyahu’s office released a photo of him inside an office at the U.N. headquarters in New York while using a landline telephone to approve the strike on Beirut. 

Responsibility lies ultimately with the U.S., which finances and arms the Zionist regime. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris – both Democrats – and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson have expressed support for the bombing, praising the assassination. The U.S. recently authorized an additional $8.7 billion in arms to Israel, facilitating its ongoing actions in Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, and now Lebanon.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke twice with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the hours before the bombing attack, presumably giving the order to proceed (the tail does not wag the dog; Austin is the commanding officer, the head of the Pentagon, and he gives the orders, not the other way around as the official news reports claim). The news report added that General Austin “expressed full support for Israel’s” operation in Lebanon and “made it clear that the United States remains committed to the defense of Israel.”

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was a brilliant leader who twice defeated Israel. Nasrallah was killed due to his unwavering support for Palestine. 

The great Palestinian scholar Edward Said recalled meeting the “remarkably impressive” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and noted he “adopted a strategy toward Israel quite similar to that of the Vietnamese against the Americans: We cannot fight them because they have an army, a navy, and a nuclear option, so the only way we can do it is to make them feel it in body bags.”

Hezbollah is a political party in Lebanon born out of the resistance against Israel’s illegal invasion and military occupation of southern Lebanon in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Nasrallah and Hezbollah spearheaded the resistance against Israel on two occasions, resulting in significant victories: first, when Israel was compelled to withdraw from Lebanon in 2000, and second, when Israel failed to overcome Hezbollah in 2006.

Nasrallah knew precisely who the oppressor was in the region. “It is America that controls Israel,” he declared:

“There is a misconception prevalent in the Arab world regarding ‘Israel’-U.S. relations. We keep repeating this lie about the Zionist lobby — that the Jews rule America and are the real decision-makers, and so on. No. America itself is the decision maker. In America, you have the major corporations; you have a trinity of the oil companies, the weapons industry, and the so-called ‘Christian Zionism.’ The decision-making is in the hands of this alliance. ‘Israel’ used to be a tool at the hands of the British, and now it is a tool in the hands of America.

“The recent call from Biden (to Netanyahu) proves everything I said before. If the Americans want to stop something, they can make it stop. The claim that the Americans cannot force Israel to do something is nonsense. According to some theories, Israel controls America. No sir, it is America that controls Israel.”

Long live the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Iran! 

Defeat U.S. imperialism!