Hezbollah: Israel's Menace or Lebanon's Defender?

In the last episode of Conflicted, we saw Hezbollah, the Lebanese
Shia terror group, grow in power in the midst of the brutal
Lebanese civil war of the 1980s. But after a precarious peace came
to the country, an Israeli occupation of the south remained
throughout the 1990s. This allowed Hezbollah to remain an active
and armed militia, a fact which would come to haunt the country
over the following decades until today. In this second part of our
two episode exploration of Hezbollah, we look at the destabilising
effect the group have had on the politics of Lebanon and the
security of their southern neighbour, Israel. We’ll see how
Hezbollah’s leader, Hasan Nasrallah, has held the country to ransom
in the never ending game of political poker Lebanon is stuck
playing. And with Hezbollah now poised to join the 2023 Israel-Gaza
conflict from the north, we’ll take you through what their long
term motivations for such a move would be, and why their Iranian
puppet masters would be keen for them to do so. Join our FB
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