For Hizballah, Post-War Politics are Local
By David Schenker
Hizballah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah’s coming out (of hiding) rally on September 22 made big headlines. Most of the attention in the West was focused on Nasrallah’s revelation that Hizballah still possessed some 20,000 rockets and missiles. But a closer reading of the speech highlights other equally troubling developments on the Hizballah front. Primary among these developments is Hizballah’s new focus on domestic issues. Nasrallah’s speech highlights Hizballah’s strategy for coping with the expanded UNIFIL and LAF presence in the South. This development poses new challenges for Washington and the moderate government of Lebanese PM Fouad Siniora.
I wrote an article on this the Weekly Standard Online (The Daily Standard). It’s called Hezbollah's New Mission:
The "resistance" takes aim at the Lebanese government.
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