Hezbollah

Robert Fisk writes: Hezbollah was once the Lebanese “resistance”, the tough, courageous, self-sacrificing guerrilla army which drove Israel’s occupation soldiers out of Lebanon 12 years ago. Today, it looks more like yet another Arab “security” institution – or insecurity institution – as it flies drones over Israel and continues to support, to the increasing condemnation [...]

Thanassis Cambanis writes: Hassan Nasrallah has always been more sophisticated than the caricatured nightmare featured in the breathless propaganda of Hezbollah’s many enemies. Even at his most noxious he usually managed to present himself as a man of principle. That’s why it was almost sad to see Nasrallah this week pandering like an old-time Arab [...]

In a speech in Beirut today, Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah made a nod to the Syrian people when he referred their “rightful demands” but the popular resistance leader did not acknowledge that the Syrians have to right to take up arms in pursuit of those demands. On the contrary he claimed that the war [...]

The New York Times reports: Mazen, a carpenter who organizes protests against President Bashar al-Assad in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, has torn down the posters of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, that once decorated his car and shop. Like many Syrians, Mazen, 35, revered Mr. Nasrallah for his confrontational stance with Israel. He [...]