BENGALURU: The killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday is a “big moral setback to the Lebanon-based Shia militant group, but they will not collapse. Nasrallah’s cousin Hashem Safieddine is being viewed as his successor. Militant groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis are not dependent upon a single leader,” said Aftab Kamal Pasha, well-known Indian analyst on the Middle East and former professor and director, Gulf Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “made a mockery of the international agencies by killing more than 40,000 people in Gaza, and now targeting Lebanon. He wants to expel Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai and Palestinians in the West Bank to Jordan so that the ‘River to Sea’ agenda of the Likud party is realised.”“The Middle-East conflict and the Gaza genocide is pushing the world to a new international order led by the global south. The BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — is emerging as democratic and inclusive next alternative to the US-led international order post World War II,” he said, calling it the new P5 group like the UN Security Council veto wielding powers.“India has come under a lot of pressure from the US because of its association with Russia and its emergence as a major player in BRICS, which now includes Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. The group is likely to expand further, with more than 40 countries keen on joining it,” the analyst told this newspaper from the USA.India’s former envoy to Saudi Arabia, author and strategic expert Talmiz Ahmed said that the killing of Nasarallah is yet another attempt and provocation by Netanyahu to provoke Tehran into a war.
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