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Aside From Israel, Lebanon Needs To Be Protected From Another Enemy: Itself – OpEd

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30.09.2024

By Faisal J. Abbas

The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will undoubtedly be a game-changer, not just for Lebanon, but for the whole region as well.

Will this be the end of the Iran-backed Hezbollah and its tight grip on Lebanon, which has lasted for decades? Time will tell. However, given the fact that Israel has also assassinated a large number of Hezbollah’s top-ranking generals and division leaders means that, even if the group were to live on, it would most likely be a caricature of its former self.

This is especially true when we take recent events into consideration. The carefully planned attacks that took place before Nasrallah’s assassination — such as when pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in the hands of 3,000 Hezbollah commanders and soldiers this month and the series of targeted assassinations that took out the likes of Fouad Shukr — clearly indicate that Israel has superior intelligence capabilities or that Hezbollah has been infiltrated, or most probably both.

This makes it unlikely that Hezbollah is capable of responding meaningfully or painfully as Israel will likely know about any attack in advance. (The fact that the most gruesome attack Hezbollah........

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