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** Why Arabs Are Celebrating the Death of Hassan Nasrallah ([link removed])
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by Bassam Tawil • October 2, 2024 at 5:00 am
* "Israel just made all the Middle East happy tonight." — Israeli-Lebanese Christian journalist Jonathan Elkhoury, X, September 27, 2024.
* "As a Lebanese, this is one of the happiest days in Lebanon's history.... As a human being who holds peace before my eyes, this is the most important day for our region. Nasrallah and Hezbollah have terrorized the Lebanese people since the 1980s.... Every Lebanese and every decent human being should feel joy at the downfall of one of the greatest evils of our time. Now, we have a real chance to look forward... and sitting down with Israelis and the West for genuine negotiations on normalization and peace between our countries—Israel and Lebanon." — Jonathan Elkhoury, X, September 24, 2024.
* "Honestly, Lebanon should toss Nasrallah into the sea like the U.S. did with Bin Laden—no land deserves that filth. Though, I do feel bad for the fish." — Amjad Taha, United Arab Emirates, to his 571,000 followers on X, September 28, 2024.
* All the students at US university campuses who have been protesting Israel's war against Iran's terror proxies, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, should hear the voices of these Arabs. These voices demonstrate how many Arabs have also been harmed by terrorism and how they wish for a better future for their children and their people. These voices also show that in the war against Islamist terrorism, a growing number of Arabs consider Israel an ally.

The killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has shown that many Arabs considered him an enemy and arch-terrorist. Nasrallah was responsible for killing not only many Israelis but also many Arabs, especially in Lebanon and Syria. That is probably why the news of Nasrallah's elimination was greeted with jubilation by many Israelis and Arabs. Pictured: Some of the hundreds of Syrians celebrating the killing of Nasrallah in the streets of Idlib, Syria, on September 28, 2024. (Photo by Muhammad Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images)

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on September 27, was often described by many in the West as a "formidable enemy" of Israel. Nasrallah's death, however, has shown that many Arabs, including some of his fellow Lebanese citizens, also considered him an enemy and arch-terrorist. The Hezbollah chief was responsible for killing not only a large number of Israelis over the past three decades, but also many Arabs, especially in Lebanon and Syria.

That is probably why the news of Nasrallah's elimination was greeted with jubilation by many Israelis and Arabs.

Hezbollah has long been an ally of the Ba'ath regime of Syria, ruled by the Assad family. Hezbollah has helped the Ba'ath regime during the Syrian civil war in its fight against the Syrian opposition, backed by the US.

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