The Taliban government of Afghanistan has reportedly offered to provide manpower to fight alongside the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah in its escalating conflict with Israeli forces. This development, if confirmed, would mark an unprecedented shift in Taliban policy, with the Sunni Islamist group having previously considered Muslims from the Shiite sect to be apostates, leading to attacks on Shiite minorities in Afghanistan and high tensions on the Afghan-Iranian border in the 1990s.
These sectarian issues have been a primary cause for the alignment of a range of jihadist groups in the Middle East against Hezbollah, forcing the militia group to fight a two front war both against such jihadists and against Israel. This division notably led Israel to join its allies in Turkey and the Western world to fund Sunni Islamist groups in Syria in the 2010s to weaken Hezbollah, as confirmed by Israel Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot in 2019.
The dispatch of Taliban forces, widely revered among Sunni Islamist groups, to fight alongside Hezbollah, could thus mark a watershed moment in Shia-Sunni Islamist alignments.
Taliban Personnel in Armoured Personnel Carriers
Talibans getting too swell-headed.
ReplyDeleteThey fought the Americans on their home-turf, in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Taking on the Israeli army on THEIR home turf is likely to lead to a massacre of the Taliban.
Then all the Leftie Wankers are going to scream and rabid rave genocide by the Israeli Army.
Wakakakaka…
ReplyDeleteU know mfering genocide!
The guerrilla warfare hardened Taliban would provide the Hamas with knowledge & tactics that Zionists would have never expected from a ragtagging Hamas!
Massacre?
Yes! On the side u never expected!