Hezbollah confronts a shifting political landscape under Iranian influence

The rejection of Lebanese–Israeli negotiations will remain a legitimate position for the party up to the moment when its most serious mistakes are revealed after the errors of being drawn into war, namely if it slips into internal Lebanese confrontation involving street violence and weapons. What requires urgent warning is a “retro” and outdated tendency, even if the party’s and Iran’s calculations would suggest avoiding such a misstep. The party’s discourse and its closely aligned media rely on fully militarized classifications for anyone who is not “Hezbollah,” in an almost delirious generalization. All “others” are either Zionists, traitors, or agents of America and Israel, while the state is described as shameful.