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🇱🇧✝️☪️🇮🇷 Christians and Hezbollah Unite Against ‘Epstein Empire’
March 23, 2026 — Originally published in The Telegraph and since REMOVED from their website, though it remains accessible via Yahoo News.
Ras Baalbek, a Catholic town of 6,000 in Lebanon’s northern Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, shows the complexity of the country’s sectarian landscape. Here, Christian residents have forged an unlikely alliance with Hezbollah to protect their heritage and their lives. Each year, the Iranian-backed group buys the town a Christmas tree, a small but symbolic gesture of solidarity.
“The relationship between the village and Hezbollah is stronger than with the Pope,” says Rifiat Nasrallah, 60, a quarryman whose marble sarcophagi line the cemetery. “The Vatican did nothing for us, but Hezbollah spilled their blood to protect us. The Pope only has prayers.”
Two Lebanese soldiers were in Rifiat Nasrallah’s home as he spoke. On the wall hung a crucifix beside a portrait of Hezbollah’s former secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah. The two men are not related. The image captured the coexistence of the village’s Catholic faith and Hezbollah’s presence.
During the Syrian civil war, the threat that brought Christians and Hezbollah together came from the east. Islamic State fighters attacked from nearby Qasr in Syria, kidnapping workers and threatening to behead villagers. The Lebanese army initially stayed on the sidelines. Hezbollah responded first, sending fighters and coordinating defensive operations alongside local residents.
“At first, it was only Hezbollah and the villagers who fought the Salafists,” Nasrallah recalls. “We fought together with missiles and rockets. Many were wounded, some died. I was nearly killed by shrapnel.”
The Lebanese army later joined in and is credited with driving IS out of the region by 2017, but the early defense cemented the bond between the Catholic village and the Shia militia.
Today, renewed regional tensions fuel anxiety in Ras Baalbek. Christians worry about attacks from Syrian Salafist groups, while Hezbollah monitors Israeli activity across Syrian airspace. Nasrallah is clear about his priorities. “Israel is our first enemy. Hezbollah is our friend.”
Shia refugees in the valley recall constant drone strikes, air raids, and daily violence during the last ceasefire. One described it as the “cruellest” period of the war. Trauma has deepened suspicion toward global powers. “We are at war with the Epstein people,” the refugee said. “They eat, fry, and rape kids. They are monsters. The worst part is they rule the world.”
For Ras Baalbek, Hezbollah is no abstract force. The militia defended the village from IS, provided medical care during Covid, delivered electricity when generators were scarce, and maintained Christmas traditions.
Nasrallah is unequivocal. “How can we as Christians here not be with Hezbollah? They protect our churches. They fought Isis with us. They gave us care, generators, even a Christmas tree. How can we not be with them now?”
❗️Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich, speaking to Israel’s Radio 94FM:
“The battle in Lebanon must end, at the very least, with the Litani River becoming the new border of the State of Israel. We must, of course, continue striking Hezbollah and decisively defeat it.”
Host: “Do you mean establishing settlements?”
Smotrich: “No, not at this stage. We are talking about a fully cleared security strip. Alongside the security aspect, there is also the need to instill in the enemy the ‘cost of mistakes’ and the ‘cost of defeat.’”
“Arabs, whether in Gaza or Lebanon, do not calculate in terms of casualties. What matters to them is land and territory. Everyone in the region dealing with us must understand that when they lose, they lose land to us.”
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/55398
The shamelessness of these ghouls will never stop making my blood boil. I’m genuinely going to throw a party they get their just desserts.
🏴☠️Trump in the last 96 hours
Friday, “I don’t want a ceasefire with Iran.”
Friday, “We plan to gradually reduce our military efforts in the war against Iran.”
Saturday, Axios reports that Trump is planning “peace talks” with Iran.
Sunday, “Iran wants a deal. Not me.”
Sunday, “If Iran doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, the US will destroy Iran’s power plants.”
Monday, “The US and Iran had very good and productive talks… I ordered a five-day postponement of any strikes on Iranian power plants.”
🇦🇺🛢 Sydney petrol stations are running dry.
Nearly 250 service stations across New South Wales and Queensland are out of diesel. Those who can get fuel are paying a dollar a litre more than three weeks ago.
Unions are demanding government intervention to compensate truck drivers.
The war has come to Australia.
Video in https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/179245
This is what is coming for every Western country that depends on the Hormuz. Things are going to get wild.
We, the Handala Hack , have today initiated a new phase of Operation Lockheed Martin.
We now possess the complete data of 28 senior American engineers based in the occupied territories and involved in military projects—including names, identification numbers, passports, places of residence, and service bases. All of this information has been leaked .
These engineers, who have worked for years in key technical roles for the occupier’s military, were engaged in critical projects such as the maintenance of F-35 and F-22 fighter jets and the THAAD defense system. The veil of technical secrecy has now been lifted.
In recent hours, we have established contact with some of them to demonstrate just how fragile digital barriers can be. From conversations about their daily interests to ordinary details of their lives, all was done to show that “privacy” is merely a word in a book, not a reality.
We called them and told them where they live, the names of their children, their favorite foods, their weekend activities, and the locations of their families’ residences in the United States.
They were told they have a limited time to change course and leave an area that is no longer safe. We warned that delaying their decision means entrusting their fate to a storm that has already begun—a storm made not of smoke and fire, but of data and exposure.
They were given 48 hours to cease cooperation with the Zionist regime and leave the occupied territories immediately. Otherwise, their homes would become missile targets. We also have friends in the United States who care more for their families than they do themselves, and if they do not return home, these friends will visit their families.
Go home right now.
Files in https://handala-team.to/lockheed-martin-employees-given-48-hours-to-respond-a-tight-deadline-looms/
Well, this IS praxis
Iranian media official sources says there was no contact between Tehran and Washington, Trump backed down in fear of an Iranian retaliation.
US/Isntreal suicide pact confirmed: they have again attacked Iran’s energy infrastructure, despite Iran’s repeated warnings of severe consequences. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-israeli-attack-on-gas-infrastructure-in-isfahan--khorrams
Yeah the world is fucked.
Imma keep it real with you Ayatollah Mojtaba, blow up Israel
Well, goddamn. If the world is gonna go to shit, gods willing, the US and all of its imperialist chains go straight to hell. May humanity survive and may it achieve true liberation.
amen
Well now we’re in the deepest doodoo since WWII.
And III > II …
It’s rational, just not for us: https://xcancel.com/bidetmarxman/status/2034798211039465549
(However, it doesn’t mean they will necessarily escape the conclusion you have said)
True, it makes sense as a last ditch effort for a declining empire to try taking out a major adversary (that isn’t China, since it’s too late for that). But this specific tactic at this specific time? I hope they get what they’ve brought upon themselves, with 500 years of interest.
Looks like more countries could break rank with the USA and import Russian oil
10/10 shit posting.
Repeating something I said on the first megathread, is that this war could last a few more days or a few more decades. It’s a war and we don’t know what will happen, so if you’re feeling like it’s too much you could, and perhaps should, stop following it. Iran and allies are likely to suffer more casualties than the empire’s army that was built with the stolen riches from all of the world, which might just make it harder to follow for some.
Iran has a plan and from my observations so far seem to be executing it really well though, so a second victory like last year or better is quite possible!
Tbh I am almost on the other side of that spectrum where I am too optimistic. I keep on refreshing the threads in the hopes of seeing another important target being hit lol.
Might need to reflect on that one, but it is hard to not have a smile creep up on my face when I hear some Zionist shitting himself at the rockets hitting his street.
Also, can this war take decades? I feel like if the US can take control of the strait or if Iran can hold out until the prices raise too high in the west then it will be declared over and the loser will be forced unto the negotiation table.
The same way the regime could have a coup and capitulate to Iran to save some billionaries today it could also be that Iran, Iraq and Hezbollah could push into the genocidal entity and gulf countries, which might take a few years at least, and then take a few more decades if they have to deal with europe without direct land access through Russia, for example.
It’s a war and there are many many many ways it could go, even if somethings look more likely at the moment.
It’s not going to last a few more days. Don’t listen to the ochre orangutan
its terrible that the plan includes such long chains of succession. smart, but terrible.
🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷The New York Times reports that the war in Iran actually began due to a large-scale failure of Israeli intelligence.
The “Mossad” allegedly made a strategic bet on an internal uprising in Iran, which turned out to be a fatal mistake. Subsequently, Israeli special services and the country’s leadership convinced Washington of the need for a coordinated strike, but the plan completely failed.
It was assumed that the targeted elimination of the top religious and political leadership of Iran would provoke a mass protest movement, and armed Kurdish forces on the borders would become the core of direct military pressure on the ground.
The American intelligence community was initially skeptical of this scenario, pointing to the lack of real prerequisites for such a development of events. Nevertheless, the Mossad’s arguments about the “quick collapse of the regime” became decisive for involving the US in a full-scale conflict. And it was probably not easy to argue with Trump, as there was a real risk of losing funding and jobs.
As a result, Washington found itself hostage to a strategy based on a weak hypothesis: that an external military “roll” would lead to an instant destabilization of power. In practice, however, this caused the opposite effect - an unprecedented consolidation of the Iranian leadership and a sharp escalation of the conflict.
They started drinking their own koolaid
I find it absurd when Netanyahu goes out addressing the people of Iran to go out and wreck havoc, like does Israel not realize they’re hated worldwide?
This is total bullshit. Its a justification. “Oh we didn’t want to murder thousands of Iranians and spark a regional war. We were sure if we killed their leaders it would be over and everything could be done in 2 days. But they started fighting back so now we have to do genocide. oopsie”
They wanted a genocide. They always want genocide.
Motherfuckers should have picked up a history book and should have realized that it didn’t work in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and wouldn’t work here.
