Israel Matzav

The end of Hezbullah?

Lee Smith argues that, appearances to the contrary, what we may be witnessing this week is the beginning of the end for Hezbullah.

After all, the reason that Hezbollah fears the tribunal is because they understand that having been named guilty in the murder of a Sunni leader, they will have shown that they are not the Islamic resistance fighting the Zionist entity, but a sectarian project directed against the Sunnis. Their war against Israel was meant to earn them prestige in the great Sunni sea that has engulfed the Shia for more than a millennium. Now they have forfeited all that.

In the meantime, Lebanon is governed by a terrorist organization, which means that unlike Hezbollah’s patrons in Iran and Syria, the country is not merely a state sponsor of terror, but is an actual terrorist state, and one that will be in violation of several UN Security Council resolutions. Certainly Israel’s menu of targets will be much larger in the next round of hostilities with Hezbollah since the occluded cleric Hassan Nasrallah no longer has any state institutions to hide behind. Between Israel and their own countrymen Hezbollah will have little room to move, and that may well spell its end. As one anti-Hezbollah Shia activist once explained to me, “I saw the birth of Hezbollah so I know it will have an end as well.” In the coming months and years, Hezbollah may become stronger yet and enjoy some victories, but those will be temporary for what we are watching today in the streets of Lebanon is the beginning of Hezbollah’s end.

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Unfortunately, the only way Hezbullah's demise is likely to come about is in a bloody and costly war with Israel.

Labels: Hezbullah, Israel, Lee Smith, Politics, Special Tribunal for Lebanon, World Politics

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:27 PM