Gulf begins mass expulsion of Lebanese Shiites over Hizballah's role in Syria

[Christians4LessGvt]

Gulf begins mass expulsion of
Lebanese Shiites over Hizballah's role in Syria

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

June 12, 2013
 
Kuwait is the first Gulf emirate ready to act on the resolution of the recent Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Jeddah to punish Hizballah for its "flagrant intervention in Syria" against "freedom fighters." The Interior Ministry in Kuwait is about to "end the residency of some 2,000 Lebanese Shiite citizens" and shut down their financial and commercial businesses. 

The six-member bloc denounced Iran's Lebanese proxy as a terrorist group for its "flagrant military intervention in Syria and its participation in shedding the blood of Syrian people." The Saudi Cabinet earlier condemned Hezbollah's "blatant intervention" in the Syrian crisis.

These Kuwait and Saudi moves are expected to soon touch off mass expulsions from the six Gulf nations of tens of thousands of Lebanese Shiites employed or operating businesses there. This forced repatriation of masses of unemployed Shiites will not only be a destabilizing factor in Lebanon but is bound to raise military temperatures between Shiite Iran and the Sunni Gulf.

Tehran and Hizballah may resort to retaliatory steps, including the activation of sleeper terrorist cells against the Sunni governments.

Tehran will certainly not be happy about the GCC taking the opportunity of getting rid of Iranian and Hizballah spy networks operating in those countries, and even less about the liquidations of businesses which helped bankroll the activities of Hizballah and Iran's Revolutionary Guards covert operations.

Kuwait will also "deny visas" to members of Lebanese groups associated with Hizballah, which run their own militias, such as Nabih Berri (Shiite Amal) and Walid Jumblatt (Druzes).

The GCC is therefore striking hard at supporters of Iran, Hizballah and the Assad regime across a wide spectrum.

Tuesday, June 11, debkafile reported exclusively that Hizballah and Iran had suspended their military and financial ties with the Palestinian Sunni Hamas after discovering its members fighting with Syrian rebels in the al Quseyr battle.

A day later, the Sunni Gulf is seen to be meting out punishment to the Shiite powers. The estrangement between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Arab world is deepening sharply in consequence of the Syrian conflict.

http://www.debka.com/article/23036/Gulf-begins-mass-expulsion-of-Lebanese-Shiites-over-Hizballah?s-role-in-Syria

[Xavier_Onassis]

This sounds like a reasonable thing to do, I suppose.

I met a Syrian Christian guy named George in Ecuador last summer. It turns out that it is very easy to distinguish Shiites, Sunnis, Christians and Druzes (not to mention Armenians and Greeks) by their surnames.

Hezbollah is unlikely to benefit from the Syrian Civil War. They will take a lot of casualties and this will discourage other Shiites from enlisting. That is a good thing. Hezbollah has served its purpose, the expulsion of Israel from Lebanon. They are also a Lebanese political party, and will probably continue being one, but less effective since they will have less muscle. It will be a good thing if Lebanon can avoid a repeat of their civil war. Mostly what it did was to limit the power of the Lebanese Christian elite (the Marionites).