The Lebanese state, angered by Hezbollah’s defiance, has officially banned the group’s military wing. But can the state actually stop Hezbollah from firing salvos at Israel—or, for that matter, even from aiming at the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) if challenged?
It has long been feared that if the Lebanese state took on Hezbollah, it could split the LAF, inflame sectarian tensions, and lead to a civil war. But some believe that the ghost of the country’s last civil war is a convenient narrative excuse that only serves Hezbollah and keeps the Lebanese state a hostage to its whims.
Some in Lebanon hoped that Hezbollah would refrain from attacking Israel if only to prove its stated raison d’être of protecting Lebanon from external threats rather than serving at Iran’s beck and call.
Hezbolla was the only defense against jizzrael. They pushed them out of the south in 2005, but now they’re coming back in to create settlements and eventually swallow the whole country. The LAF can’t stop them and the USI supports jizzrael annexing the whole region. Although the Maronites are happy with this because of their hatred of hezbolla and the Palestinians, or muslims in general. And of course a civil war would be jizzrael’s wet dream to further weakening the country as they invade and there’s no one to stop them.
