Hizbullah's Abou Zaynab Steps Down as Christian Ties Official
Hizbullah politburo member Ghaleb Abou Zaynab has stepped down as the party's point man on relations with Christian parties.
“I have relinquished the duties related to the Christian file and I have not resigned from Hizbullah,” Abou Zaynab told al-Jadeed television on Sunday, clarifying earlier media reports.
“I'm still on the course of jihad under the directions of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah,” the party's secretary-general, Abou Zaynab added.
The man, who was in charge of dialogue with Christian parties for the past 14 years, took part Friday in a Hizbullah delegation that offered Christmas greetings to Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki.
Abou Zaynab is known to have close ties with the Free Patriotic Movement, Hizbullah's main Christian ally, and in 2006 he played a big role in forging the landmark memorandum of understanding between the two parties.
He was also part of the Hizbullah delegation that attended the Vatican ceremony that promoted Patriarch al-Rahi to become a member of the elite College of Cardinals -- the body that advises the pope in the governance of the Catholic Church and elects his successor should he die or resign.
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over 10 years
Hassan, thank you for the kind words. I just don't see that. Why is HA first stating they are in Syria to protect religious shrines only? Why did HA allow the Syrian regime to infiltrate Lebanon in such a way for over 20 years that harmed and neglected a large percentage of the population. I understand you may be a better bet than KSA or Nusra/ISIS, but I don't buy the Lebanon thing as much as their purpose being a Shiite thing.
over 10 years
this terrorist was not extremist enough for the party of terror for him to keep his job.
over 10 years
Your statements are totally inept and shows an IQ next to zero.
I pity you.
over 10 years
you're a joke, what a pavlovian reflex.
over 10 years
Coming from you, one of the worst of them all? Yeah your words have so much meaning, have a cookie.
over 10 years
ooh Southern, you should be so afraid of this cartoon figure called terrorist living in the U.S
He is Naharnets Assassin.
over 10 years
Abu Zaynab..anotther jihadist...
over 10 years
you people are either spies to Iran or spies to Israel.
over 10 years
The Associated Press just reported Ghalib Abu Zainab resigned as a result of an internal inquiry within the iranian sectarian terrorist militia that led to his indictment on embezzlment charges of millions of dollars in funds destined to finance the surrogate Resistance Brigades of the terrorist party.
Mr. Abu Zainab is reported to own an impressive portfolio of real estate and businesses in the African continent and the Emirates.
Source: AP
over 10 years
Does the Emirates allow such people to run business, let alone own real estate there?
over 10 years
Abou Zainab is also in charge of the dialogue between Hizbullah and the Christian parties.
Gotta laugh at his job description...
over 10 years
may all your life savings be in Russian Ruble.... RIP flamethrower
over 10 years
Humm, I wonder what happened Abou Zainab was part of the Hezb's delegation that visited Cardinal al-Rahi and Archbishop Audeh just two days ago. Maybe now that Ali Larijani's charged another Hezballah member, Hajj Michel Naim Aounejad, of the dialogue between Hizbullah and the Christian parties Abou Zainab's position became redundant. No point paying two people for doing the same thing especially not in these depressed Iranian economic conditions.
over 10 years
This is how he is called among ex-fpm's
over 10 years
We call him "Caporal Aounallah".
over 10 years
All of you missing some thing - Some one not too close to Aoun had to tell him to step aside.
Abu Zeynab could not tell Aoun because Abu Zeynab is too close to him.
There will be no problem for the new guy to tell Aoun to forget the presidency.
over 10 years
He probably got sick of being the one to manipulate Christians on behalf of the Iranian group, said in a political way "screw it, I have better things to do than use people for a foreign groups games"
over 10 years
All of a sudden and out of the blue he developed an affinity to neckties so he had to go.
over 10 years
We are starting to se severe cracks in the Hezbollah structure: The high-profile spy, the MP who is about to be summoned to the STL as a suspect, the sacking of politburo member Abou Zaynab. Remember we can only see the top of the iceberg...
over 10 years
What do you expect, Hezbollah and it's friendly medias keep claiming victory upon victory while it's community watches as flag draped coffins keep coming back in droves, border towns are being attacked and their resident are afraid from being overrun, towns all over the Beka3 are being regularly shelled and even fortress Dahieh was breached a few times. Hezbollah's triumphalist narrative doesn't ad up, even the most diehard unpaid supporter can see that.
over 10 years
who are you talking to child? are you lost? where is your mommy?
over 10 years
I agree, it is really not nessecary to bad mouth Hezbollah. We have to stick to facts. There is more than enough facts to demonstrate that a burden this organization is to Lebanon the way they are operating today. Im not saying that they can contribute in a positive way to their society and to Lebanon as a whole in the future, but is will take and brave and wise leadership. That is something that Hezbollah of today are missing.
over 10 years
Even if they "find God" and join the state it doesn't take away what they did before. They are the main problem in Lebanon but not the only. Throughout the 71 years as a country, there has always been instability, corruption, lack of accountability, militias and fiefdoms (Ouwwet in Metn and Keserwen, PSP in Chouf, etc) and Hezbollah is just continuing all these concepts to a higher degree.
But bottomline is Hezbollah will never surrender their arms because their allegiance lies with an outside country and that country will never let them disarm.
over 10 years
Hizbullah Detains 'Israeli Spy' in its Ranks. 12/26/2014
Hizbullah's politburo member Ghaleb Abou Zainab was sacked from his position. 12/28/2014
i can assure you on the tomb of my son hadi and on the integrity of zeynib and the conscience of imamu ali that we are here to protect lebanon and not the shias.
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