In the war-torn Middle East, the biggest headache for Western countries should be the Lebanese Allah Party, a party known for its stubbornness and toughness, whose purpose is to oppose the oppression of Western countries and Israel. The entire party, under the leadership of leader Hassan Nasrallah, views the situation in the Middle East from the perspective of the oppressor and the oppressed.
It is clear that the Western countries that wage wars of aggression with ulterior motives are the oppressors, and the Lebanese people are among the oppressed.
Nasrallah's ideal is to rid Lebanon of Israeli oppression and establish a state that is fully liberalized politically and economically.
Because of the frequent attacks of the Allah Party against Israel, this party is listed as a "terrorist organization" by Western countries. Nasrallah is seen as Israel's "number one terrorist" that must be eliminated.
Under these circumstances, the Middle Eastern hero did not choose to back down, but led the elite of the Allah party to continue to exert his influence and advance towards the ideal goal.
"Chosen Son" born of commoners
As the Allah's position in Lebanon grew, so did its leader, Nasrallah, in the country.
In Lebanon's recent presidential election, the presidency has been undecided, and Nasrallah's words have increased the pressure on the candidates.
"We need a brave president who puts the interests of the country first and dares to stand up to the forces of aggression," Nasrallah said. These words expressed his determination to keep fighting.
As the founder of the Allah Party, Nasrallah was the "chosen son" born for the "holy war".
Nasrallah was born in 1960 to an impoverished Shiite family that lived in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, far from the city, and the family struggled to get by with his father, who ran a fruit and vegetable business.
Later, my father opened a small grocery store, and the family's situation was a little better. Nasrallah was sensible as a child, often helping his father with the grocery store business, but in the store, what attracted him the most was not the food, but a mousa. Portrait of Sadr.
Moussa. Sadr is regarded as the spiritual leader of Lebanon's Shiites, who have improved their economic, cultural, and educational backwardness, and are revered as "imams."
Looking at the determined eyes of the leader on this portrait, Nasrallah Jr. began to establish his ideal in life, and he must become a leader like Sadr in the future and make his own career in religious movements.
To establish his ambitions at such a young age, we have to admit that Nasrallah was the "chosen son" because no one in that family instilled too much religious knowledge in him.
His greatest entertainment was reading religious books, often holding a religious book obsessively for a day, and besides that, his most important thing was to go to the neighboring village to worship.
Because their village was too poor to build a mosque, little Nasrallah would religiously go to his neighboring village every day to worship, raining or windy, and he never stopped.
In 1976, Nasrallah made the important decision to study in the highly academic Najaf, because Najaf, though an Iraqi city, is a Shiite mecca.
However, as an ordinary Shia underclass resident, it was obviously unlikely that he would be accepted into the Najaf seminary, and later, a well-wisher who had studied in Najaf helped him write a letter of recommendation, and Nasrallah embarked on the road to the temple of his heart with the letter.
When he arrived in Najaf, he was already destitute, but he was lucky to meet the noble man in his life, Abasa, the teacher he has followed ever since. Mousavi.
With the encouragement of his teacher, Nasrallah devoted all his energy to religious studies, and there was nothing else in his life, and he completed his primary studies three years ahead of schedule and returned to Lebanon full of knowledge.
In Lebanon, 18-year-old Nasrallah attended a religious school founded by his teacher, while at the same time he joined the Amal movement, founded by childhood idol al-Sadr.
His admiration for Sadr persisted, not only appreciating the strength and decisiveness of idols, but also often imitating the infectious power of their speeches and expecting himself to become an influential religious leader.
Six years after joining the "Amal Movement", due to the large-scale invasion of the Israeli army, the Lebanese Amal Organization took the battlefield to resist the Israeli army with the cooperation of the Syrian army, but during the war, differences within the team occurred.
Nasrallah and his teacher Musawi led seven others to form an Islamist group of nine delegates and broke away from the Amal Movement.
Their nine-member group, supported by Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini, carried out several confrontations with Israeli forces, forcing Israeli troops to begin slowly withdrawing from Lebanon.
In 1985, the group issued its first open letter announcing the formation of the Lebanese Allah Party, with Mousavi as its leader.
He declared the Allah party a jihadist fighter within the Islamic sect whose purpose was to drive Israel out of Lebanon and restore a free and democratic Islamic state.
Because the Allah Party exists to confront Israel, they are first and foremost a thorn in the side of the Israeli army, and as party leaders, Mousavi's danger is everywhere.
In 1992, despite every precaution, Mousavi was hit by an Israeli fighter jet and killed instantly. The Allah Party lost its core leader, and the young Nasrallah stepped onto the political arena and began his career as a Middle Eastern champion.
Led to the rise of the Allah Party
Nasrallah was only 22 years old when he founded the Allah Party with his teacher, and although he was one of the founders, he did not hold a position in the party center, but because of the presence of his teacher, he rose through the ranks little by little.
In the process, he held almost most positions in the party and did a lot of work.
In 1989, because the situation in the country was still relatively stable, this studious young man wanted to complete the studies he had interrupted, and he returned to Najaf to start studying.
But not long after his return, as the conflict between the Allah Party and the Amal movement escalated and even turned into an armed confrontation, Mousavi urgently needed students to come back and help, and Nasrallah had to return to Lebanon.
But soon after his return, the teacher was killed by Israel, and Nasrallah was deeply saddened by his departure, and the question of the successor was in front of the members of the Allah Party.
Since Nasrallah has always been in tune with the teacher, many people say that they are the heads and tails of a coin that have formed a whole. Out of respect for Mousavi, calls for Nasrallah's succession were high.
But Nasrallah was just in his prime, and some questioned his youth, but everyone also took into account the young man's experience from the grassroots, and his work made him close to everyone in the party.
In the end, everyone realized that only by choosing this young man could they stabilize the military to the greatest extent, and it turned out that people's choice at that time was correct.
Nasrallah was an ambitious man who wanted to push the Allah Party onto the Lebanese political scene, and after he became leader, the Allah Party began to intervene in Lebanese politics as a party.
After 1992, the Allah Party began to participate in every general election in the country and gained a seat in the Lebanese Parliament. In the eyes of the people, the Allah Party played even more role in resisting aggression than the government, and Nasrallah's tough tactics began to appear.
In 2000, after several years of relentless fighting, Israeli forces finally withdrew from much of southern Lebanon, and Nasrallah personally negotiated with Israel to protect Lebanese prisoners of war.
Negotiations lasted for four years, and later, with German mediation, Israel released more than 400 prisoners of war, including fighters from Lebanon and other Arab countries, a move that won the hearts and minds of the Allah party.
The actions of the Allah party also angered Israel, and in 2006, in order to eliminate the recalcitrant party, Israel installed a "puppet government" in southern Lebanon and amassed most of its forces in an attempt to annihilate the party in one fell swoop.
In the face of the menacing enemy attack, Nasrallah did not panic, although the Allah party only had 5,000 elite troops, but these good Shiite men were all jihadist fighters who were not afraid of death.
In addition, the Allah Party has 10,000 militias, whose faith will motivate them to burst out their maximum strength on the battlefield.
In a fierce standoff between the two sides, the Allah destroyed several Israeli tanks and disabled a warship. Although both sides suffered heavy damage, the Allah party won in the end.
This victory made Israel not underestimate the Allah party, and in the Lebanese national consciousness, it also completely shattered the idea that the Israeli army is "invincible".
After this victory, Lebanon entered a brief phase of peace, and Nasrallah understood the importance of people's livelihood, and he began to build hospitals and schools in southern Lebanon, and set up several orphanages to house children displaced by the war.
The indomitable strength of the Allah Party in resisting foreign invasion and the moderation it showed in the later period in "people's livelihood" made it one of the three strongest forces in the country.
In just over 20 years, the Allah Party has developed from an insurgent organization to a participating party in the country, and plays an important role in the situation within the country and in the entire Middle East. This progress is inseparable from its leader, Nasrallah.
However, in the process of Allah the development of the party, Nasrallah also discovered many shortcomings in the party, and he began to make adjustments for the development and growth of the party.
Adjust your strategy to challenge the future
Looking back at the historical development of the Allah Party, we cannot but admire Nasrallah as a very wise leader who has been adjusting his tactics to the ever-changing political situation in Allah the Middle East over the course of decades of the Party's development.
At the beginning of its founding, the spiritual leader of the party, Fadera, was an extreme sermon, praising the power of "jihad" and even identifying with acts of terrorism, which in his view was an obligation of the congregation.
Later, under Nasrallah's leadership, this belligerent style gradually changed. He always wears glasses and a square scarf, and he is full of talent, so his personal image is more elegant and his style is more gentle.
His powerful speech, in which he repeatedly revisited people's need for a free and secure way of life, in addition to emphasizing that "driving out of Israel" is a necessary purpose.
His propaganda content won people's favor, warmed the Allah Party members, and greatly enhanced the people's identity.
In addition, when the Allah Party was founded, their purpose was to establish an Islamic state in Lebanon, using Islamic laws as the basis for governing the country.
But over time, Nasrallah found that this purpose was difficult to implement in Lebanon, where there were so many religious denominations and people wanted administrators to be people who were championed, and governing by a single sect would only lead to chaos.
Nasrallah believes that although he believes in Islam, if he weighs the interests of the country only by doctrine, it is still narrow, and after repeated discussions among party members, the Allah party has changed its development program.
Nasrallah positioned the Allah Party as a party serving the Lebanese people, who would always stand in the Arab position and resist all forces of aggression.
This positioning makes the Allah party more gentle, and also presents the political style that a regular party should have.
At the same time, Nasrallah also made a series of adjustments to the Allah Party to ease pressure.
If the Allah Party wants to achieve a healthy development in the future, it must relieve two major pressures from internal and external.
Internal pressures are factional, and Nasrallah became a leader because he worshipped Shia "imams" and became obsessed with the power of teachings, and he often preached in speeches.
Among the Shiite underclass, Nasrallah is the "god" who rescued them and their most trustworthy.
But as the leader of a political party, Nasrallah knows that if he continues to develop the Shiite nature of the Allah party, it will be difficult for him to unite other Muslim groups in the Arab world, nor will he become a reasonable party organization aimed at opposing Israel in the eyes of the vast number of Arabs, so the Shia nature of the Allah party must be changed.
Nasrallah's change was to open his mind and work with Sunni parties and Christian congregations in the country, a move that greatly strengthened the Allah's appeal.
Of course, the transition was very difficult, and many party members did not understand Nasrallah, and some core members of the party submitted their resignations, calling Nasrallah "pragmatic". As everyone knows, it is his "pragmatism" that ensures the benign development of the Allah Party.
The Allah party also has external pressure, that is, the image of a "terrorist organization" in the international community, although this is a propaganda strategy of Western countries, but Nasrallah understands that the party's political activities in the international community must be strengthened in order to change its inherent image.
In the future, Nasrallah's Allah Party is likely to adjust its former resistance character, because the current party is no longer one of the several forces in Lebanon, but has become the main force in the country.
I believe that the wise Nasrallah will put himself in the perspective of Lebanon, readjust his development strategy, let the Allah Party play a role in the political stage of the Middle East, and make himself a generation of heroes in Middle East politics.
Resources:
"Research on the Allah Party of Lebanon"-CNKI
Review of the Lebanese Allah Party-CNKI
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Author: Wish
Editor: Lin Yan