NYT Salutes Hezbollah’s Christmas Spirit? Are You Kidding Me!

Hezbollah was formed in 1982. It is a radical Shi’a Muslim group in Lebanon, with its primary focus being that it opposes the influence of so-called “western Imperialism” in Lebanon. It also refuses to even acknowledge the legitimacy of the nation of Israel and if given an opening to do so would wipe Israel off the map so it can be completely taken over by the Arab world. It was actually officially labeled as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in October of 1997.

The New York Times just published an article on Christmas Eve that has a lot of people shaking their heads. We have this report that they were actually saluting Hezbollah for its wonderful Christmas spirit, and from what I could tell, it even seemed to be celebrating the fact that they were integrating the person of Jesus Christ into the holiday routine.

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The opening passage of the Times article paints a remarkable picture:









The mufti, Ahmed Kabalan, went on to engage in some novel religious and political thinking: Christians and Muslims, he said, “are one family, against corruption, with social justice, against authority, against Israel, with the Lebanese Army and with the resistance.”

New York Times writers Vivian Yee and Hwaida Saad seem vaguely aware that this is all about factional politics and media manipulation, not Hezbollah suddenly deciding to return all the presents it stole from Whoville because its heart grew three sizes. The delicate nature of Yuletide in that restless and often violent country is remarked upon.

Also, as the above passages indicate, Hezbollah is not interested in helping Christians have a merry Christmas. They want to appropriate the holiday for political purposes, obscenely comparing their extremist violence to the “rebel” attitude of Jesus and recruiting Christians as allies against Israel.

The key passage of the article lacks the appropriate cynicism, or even skepticism, about Hezbollah’s motives and reads as uncomfortably sympathetic to its point of view:

Even Hezbollah, the Shiite political movement and militia that the United States has branded a terrorist organization, has helped ring in the season.


In previous years, it imported a Santa to Beirut’s southern suburbs to distribute gifts. On Saturday, Hezbollah representatives were on hand for the Iranian Christmas concert, an event that also featured handicrafts by Iranian artists, but the organization skipped Santa this year because of financial constraints.


These demonstrations of Christmas spirit seem intended, analysts said, to demonstrate Hezbollah’s inclusivity as a major political and military force in Lebanese society and to highlight its political alliances with Christian parties.



The article does not dwell upon why the United States might have gone and “branded” those jolly old elves of Hezbollah a terrorist organization, or list any of the other nations which have done so, which seems like a very important bit of context to omit from the story. The terrorism brand was applied to Hezbollah in 1997 by a secretary of state the New York Times was generally very supportive of.

Hezbollah couldn’t afford to “import a Santa” this year? That’s odd because ever since former President Barack Obama lifted sanctions on Iran and left the ayatollahs flush with cash, they’ve been pumping some $700 million a year into Lebanese Hezbollah, increasing its financial support by over 200 percent. Whatever did Hezbollah do with all that money? Has the cost of Santa rentals increased dramatically over the past year? Are they spending vast sums of money digging tunnels under Israel because they think Santa Claus might be trapped in a cave down there?

Almost 30 paragraphs into the story, the Times got around to observing that Christmas is “by no means a universal part of the holiday calendar of observant Muslims, especially conservative ones, some of whom consider Christmas decorations and other rituals forbidden. The article went on to praise Shiites (the sect of Islam followed by Hezbollah and dominated by Iran) for being more inclusive and respectful of other cultures than Sunni Muslims.

Fox News captured some of the outraged responses to the NYT’s whitewash of Hezbollah:


Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor wrote that the Times “does the bidding of murderous Hezbollah cowards.”


[…] “This is a new low,” geopolitical analyst Jason Buttrill tweeted. “Hezbollah was Al Qaeda before there was AQ. They were ISIS before there was ISIS. They kidnapped and murdered the CIA station chief in Beirut. Killed over 200 Marines that same year. And kidnapped journalists and pastors.”


Conservative Review reporter Jordan Schachtel wrote, “Oh just the New York Time trumpeting Hezbollah propaganda on Christmas.”

Matt Vespa at Townhall.com denounced the article as “troll bait” and “trash.”

“They imported a Santa. All sins are wiped clean, said by no one who is serious,” he snorted.

Source: Breitbart News

So Hezbollah thinks they’ve been treated unfairly because they have been labeled as a terrorist organization. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around something that ridiculous. Between all the actions of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, and all the other attacks that have been, and continue to be, carried out against Israel, I’d say they have earned that title fair and square.

It seems really bizarre how they are working so hard to deceive the rest of the world into believing in their premise that “Jesus isn’t just for Christians” is a part of their current belief system.

The one thing that does remain true is that Jesus came to Earth for ALL mankind, regardless of race, creed, or religion, and if they come to see the light of his salvation, then they will become a new species of being that never existed before. (See the Holy Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:17)


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