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Source: http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-war-without-boundaries-20130531-2nh7t.html
Nasrallah Foresakes the
(Sydney Morning Herald-Australia) Ruth Pollard - ''The decision of Hassan Nasrallah to remove the veil of Hizbullah's involvement in Syria, to very openly trumpet that they are not only involved but they are all in to the end...this is a very significant boundary he has crossed,'' says Mona Yacoubian, senior Middle East adviser at the Washington-based Stimson Center. ''This project of resistance [to Israel] that had broad street credibility and appeal to the Arab masses has now all but vanished, and when he puts the Takfiris [Muslim apostates] equal to, or even more of an enemy, than Israel, something very significant has happened.'' Yacoubian says Nasrallah has ''catapulted a sectarian narrative ahead of a resistance narrative," and his attempts to describe Hizbullah's foray in Syria as part of the resistance against Israel are ''just so hollow."