Tell Congress the EU Must Ban Hezbollah Terrorism
It has been 10 years since the European Union banned the “military” wing of the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed terror group that has attacked American, Jewish, and Israeli targets abroad, such as the 1994 car bombings of a Jewish community center in Argentina, the bombings of the Israeli Embassy in London, and the 2012 suicide bombing of a bus in Burgas, Bulgaria. The organization has a unified command structure that oversees all of the group’s disparate, and often illicit, activities. A ban on Hezbollah’s military branch has not stopped the political wing of the organization from operating openly in Europe, as it has done for years. Raising funds, recruiting, acquiring technological training and materials – all of these activities are allowed to continue with impunity in much of Europe. And in the European countries that have not banned Hezbollah in its entirety, no authority can stop the political arm of Hezbollah from using fungible assets to support the organization’s military and criminal activities.
The U.S. Congress must urge the EU to strike a serious blow to Hezbollah terrorism by banning the organization as a whole. Ask your Congress member to co-sponsor H. Res. 599, a bipartisan resolution that would urge the European Union to ban the Hezbollah terrorist group in its entirety.
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