Table of Contents
| 1 — Introduction |
| 2 — The Founder of Ḥarakah ʿAmal al-Shīʿiyyah Which Became Hizbollah |
| 3 — Names of the Founding Members of Hizbollah in Lebanon and Their Goals |
| 4 — The Beliefs of Hizbollah |
| 5 — Iranian Shia Proxies: Hizbollah in Bahrain |
THE FOUNDER of the original parent group is Musa al-Sadr, an Iranian national, he was born in 1928 and reached Lebanon in 1958, he was given Lebanese nationality. And he is a student of al-Khomeini and also has close ties with al-Khomeini.
The son of al-Khomeini, Aḥmad is married to the neice of Musa al-Sadr, and the nephew of Musa al-Sadr, Murtaza al-Ṭabtabaʾi is married to the granddaughter of al-Khomeini. Musa al-Sadr set up Ḥarakah ʾAmal al-Shīʿiyyah as an armed group in the north of Lebanon and in Beirut and there was cooperation between it and the national forces.
Al-Sadr also played the right-hand man for any Nuṣayri[1] that entered Lebanon from Syria, and when the Nuṣayri Syrian army entered Lebanon, al-Sadr changed face from a Lebanese nationalist to a Nusayri Bāṭini colonizer, and he took certain steps, from them:
a) ordering the officer Ibrahim Shahin to split from the Arab army and he set up a Lebanese army allied to Syria (the Nuṣayri Bāṭinis), and in the south, the leader Aḥmad al-Muʾāmirī also split and joined the Nuṣayri Bāṭini army (that had come in from Syria), and
b) he (al-Sadr) set up meetings with the Roman Orthodox and Roman Catholic bishops and other individuals and representatives.
All of this was to help form a regional government that would be controlled by the Syrian Nuṣayris.
These activities indicate the true loyalties of Musa al-Sadr, which is to the Shīʿites of Iran and the Syrian Nuṣayri Bāṭinis (who themselves are an extreme sect of the Imāmiyyah Shia - see here) against a general Sunni Arab population.
In 1985 the Ḥarakah ʿAmal al-Shīʿiyyah’s forces besieged the Palestinian refugee camps in South Lebanon (and were aided by some Christian factions). This was supported by the Nuṣayri Bāṭini leader of Syria, al-Assad, who did not want the presence of Palestinians in the south to invite any major invasion from the Jewish state and also because he wanted the area to be dominated by the Shia.
The battles became known as "the war of the camps" and the Shia committed great atrocities against the Palestinians in the camps. They killed old men, women and children in refugee camps, they also killed some Palestinians in the hospitals of Beirut, slitting their throats, [2] and their militias gathered tens of wounded into the camps and killed them, and witnesses also reported that they saw the militias of Ḥarakah ʾAmal kill more than forty-five wounded in the Gaza Hospital and its surrounding areas.
These militia, after taking over the refugee camp of Sabra, went into the streets of Western Beirut on 2/6/1985 chanting, "Lā ilāha illallāh, al-ʿArab aʿdā Allāh" (the Arabs are the enemies of Allāh). And Kuwaiti News (4/6/1985) and al-Watan (3/6/1985) both reported that the Militia of Ḥarakah ʾAmal kidnapped twenty-five Palestinian girls from around the camps of Sabra.
All of the above indicates that the major objective of Ḥarakah ʾAmal al-Shīʿiyyah was to get rid of Palestinian Sunni presence in the region, and there was understanding and co-operation between the Jews and the Shia from years prior.
Ḥaydar al-Dāyikh one of the leaders of Ḥarakah al-ʿAmal said:[3]
We used to carry weapons in the face of Israel, but Israel opened its arms to us and loved to aid us, Israel aided us in exterminating the Palestinian Wahhabi terrorist from the South (of Lebanon).
And Subḥī al-Ṭufaylī in his meeeting with al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper (25th September 2003 / 29th Rajab 1424H) said that when the Israeli army entered Lebanon and destroyed the Palestinian factions (in the South) with participation of the Shia, the Shia of South Lebanon stood to receive the Zionist Israeli troops, and this is confirmed by Hasan Nasr Allah as documented in the book Sajal al-Noor (p. 227) issued by Hizbollah itself.