Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
An early source of hostility between the two was the Lebanese Civil War, when the Marxist-Leninist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, an ally of Palestinian groups like the PLO, fought against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and cooperated with Israeli adversaries like Hezbollah and Iran. Today, Lebanese Armenian political party Dashnaktsutyun has openly cooperated with Hezbollah and the Syrian government, reflecting a continuous hostility between Israelis and Armenians in the Middle East.