“The extremist, Shia Hezbollah has already been designated and banned in its entirety by Israel (1989), the USA (1997), the Netherlands (2004), Canada (2002), the Gulf Cooperation Council (2016) and even the Arab League (2016) as a terrorist organisation . The United Kingdom will now join this ban as well. Germany has so far refused to do so.
Germany artificially divides Hezbollah into a military and a political wing and has banned only the former. Hezbollah itself does not recognise this division and has always actively rejected this distinction. It is financed essentially from two sources: from Iran and through crime.
Elio Adler, Chairman of the Board of WerteInitiative – jüdisch-deutsche Positionen e.V., has now called in a press release for Hezbollah to be banned in its entirety in Germany as a terrorist organisation as well: “This terrorist organisation must be banned completely here in Germany too. As Jewish citizens of Germany, we see the direct link between domestic and foreign policy here,” said Adler.
Hezbollah officials are also regular participants in the appalling Al-Quds march in Berlin. For Adler it is clear: “Hezbollah harms Germany every day: drug trafficking and money laundering for the benefit of the terrorists take place before our very eyes each day. Large parts of the money ‘earned’ in this way flow to the Middle East and thus finance terror and war.”
Less crime on Germany’s streets
WerteInitiative is calling for the following three measures: drying up Hezbollah’s financial flows, increasing the pressure of prosecution, and banning the so-called “political” arm of Hezbollah in Germany alongside the military one.
“Hezbollah must be banned as a whole as a terrorist organisation,” says Elio Adler.
According to WerteInitiative, a ban on Hezbollah as a whole would also lead to less crime on Germany’s streets. Weakening the organisation’s military resources in Lebanon and Syria would reduce the likelihood of a war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon and/or Iran. Germany could thus help to prevent a war without firing a single shot, says WerteInitiative.”
Link to the article on Audiatur-Online: https://www.audiatur-online.ch/2019/03/07/werteinitiative-hisbollah-insgesamt-in-deutschland-als-terrororganisation-verbieten/
