The myth of Hezbollah’s electoral domination | News , Lebanon Elections | THE DAILY STAR
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While Western media also framed the Lebanese election and the political focus around Hezbollah and Iran versus anti-Hezbollah camps, new parliamentary alliances and arrangements will more likely form [...].
Calling into Question Hezbollah’s Electoral “Takeover”
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To see the election outcome through the prism of an outright Hezbollah victory is reductionist and misses the point. Earlier this week, Israel carried out its largest military operation targeting Syrian soil in decades, action which comes on the heels of Trump declaring that the United States will no longer adhere to its commitments under the Iran nuclear deal. The tacit argument being made by those touting the notion that Hezbollah has seized control in Lebanon, and explicitly by many Israeli political and military leaders, is that the Lebanese state is a legitimate target in any future conflict between Israel and Hezbollah . Apart from engaging in lazy and incomplete analysis, there can be no other informed interpretation of attempts to promulgate the flawed assertion that Lebanon is now, suddenly, under the control of a single political party.