EU finally designates Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

It's about time. After all, they did just blow up a bus full of tourists on European soil and had a plot fail in Cyprus.



The EU only designated their "military wing" as terrorists but I guess that's better than nothing. There is no separate "military" wing of Hezbollah, there wasn't one of the IRA but it was a useful fiction for both sides because it let the terrorists enter negotiations while saving face.

Quote:

"It is good that the EU has decided to call Hezbollah what it is: a terrorist organization," Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers who decided on the blacklisting. "We took this important step today, by dealing with the military wing of Hezbollah, freezing its assets, hindering its fundraising and thereby limiting its capacity to act." Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote The Jerusalem Post by email, that "The decision will be partially welcomed by Washington and Jerusalem but it still ignores the evidence, including statements from Hezbollah's own leadership, that Hezbollah is not a two-winged organization neatly divided between political and military arms."

In all, a good move. Hezbollah raise a lot of money in Europe and now that source of funding has been cut off. Their major funding source is Iran, which is under heavy sanctions. Another major source of funds is drugs. They have networks all over South America and work with FARC, a leftist drug gang in Columbia.



If Hezbollah had a facebook page, it would look like this.

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