Friday's address by Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, focusing on developments in Yemen, was a model of consistency - as in consistent double standards.
As expected, the Hezbollah leader railed against Saudi Arabia for its intervention in Yemen, and accused the kingdom of using its influence in a host of other countries. Naturally, Nasrallah didn't mention that Yemen is Saudi Arabia's neighbor, that Riyadh has a national interest in what happens there, or even that the two countries have social and cultural ties.
Nasrallah didn't do so, because it would have resembled his own party's repeated justifications for its intervention in the Syrian crisis.
Instead, Nasrallah acted as if it were still March 8, 2005, and delivered a vigorous "thank you" to the Syrian regime, which has been busy killing its own people for four years.
Hezbollah - a nonstate group that acts without consulting national authorities - has intervened across the region and has even sought to project its power on other continents. While Nasrallah also criticized how certain groups receive foreign funding, he conveniently forgot how his party, armed to the teeth, is guilty of the same.
While Nasrallah is entitled to his views, to end the speech supporting dialogue and reconciliation in Lebanon, demanding that it remain aloof from the region's crises, was the icing on the cake. If Hezbollah leaders truly want to live in peace with their fellow Lebanese, they should take a long, hard look at their own record before attacking unilateral intervention and demanding acceptance of their growing list of foreign meddling.
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