Who Is The Axis Of Resistance?

A brief introduction to Hamas, Hezbollah, etc

A Hamas billboard in Iraq, showing the pan-Arab nature of the Resistance

The Resistance is being Telegram’d, and you can follow them directly, but it’s honestly a lot. As Pintada commented “I am too lazy and stupid to get access to all those sites that you mentioned.” For people like them, I’ll do some updates, but first you need a bit of context. Who are all these groups the western media lumps as ‘terrorists’, and why have they got the worst people on Earth so terrified?

In this brief and inadequate introduction, I’ll try to outline the main ‘Axis Of Resistance’, from Hamas in Palestine to Hezbollah in Lebanon to Ansar Allah in Yemen and so on. There’s a lot going on, and I hope this provides some context. Once we know the actors, we can get to the action.

Is Resistance Terrorism?

Another poster from Iraq. You tell me what’s the terror, the tank or the lone man in tracky bottoms resisting it

Firstly, as an obligatory throat clearing for western audiences, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, etc are not ‘terrorist’ organizations in any objective sense of that term. Certainly not anymore. Terrorism is as terrorism does, and right now, the ‘terrorists’ are hitting tanks while the imperial military is attacking premature babies. If you can…