In a let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Scott Mor­ri­son and to Min­is­ter of Home Affairs Peter Dut­ton last year, the Exec­u­tive Coun­cil of Aus­tralian Jew­ry (ECAJ) argued that by list­ing only Hezbollah’s exter­nal secu­ri­ty organ­i­sa­tion as a ter­ror­ist organ­i­sa­tion, “Aus­tralia has been endors­ing a fic­tion. Hezbol­lah lead­ers them­selves have open­ly and repeat­ed­ly declared that no sub­stan­tive sep­a­ra­tion exists between its dif­fer­ent wings”.

Hezbol­lah con­trols the major port and air­port in Beirut.  After the hor­rif­ic explo­sion in Beirut Port on August 4 which killed more than 200 peo­ple, Hezbol­lah is once again com­ing under inter­na­tion­al scruti­ny.  Lis­ten to ECAJ co-CEO Peter Wertheim being inter­viewed on the sub­ject by 2GB’s Michael McLaren.