Addressing his followers via video this month, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem delivered a forceful diatribe against months-long negotiations between Lebanon and Israel over a permanent agreement that would entail the disarmament of his Iran-backed terror group.
The August 14 speech, marking the 20th anniversary of the terror group’s 2006 war with Israel, saw Qassem sharply castigating the Lebanese government for, as he said, failing to stand up for the country and caving to Israeli demands.
Even the Israelis think Beirut is rolling over, he said, quoting from one of Israel’s most widely circulated newspapers to drive his point home.
“Listen to this passage by a Jewish thinker named Moshe Yair in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper,” Qassem told his tens of thousands of followers. “This passage is from after the second round [of negotiations]… ‘Fortunately for us, [the Lebanese] sent a delegation that loves Israel and the United States.’”
There is just one problem: the journalist and thinker Moshe Yair does not appear to exist, neither at Yedioth nor any other Israeli publication.
