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Hizbullah - A Mission to Nowhere (Hardcover)
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Hizbullah - A Mission to Nowhere (Hardcover)
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This book explores the rise of Hizbullah as a direct consequence of
both the Iranian Revolution and the entanglement of Lebanon in the
Arab-Israeli conflict. Protracted civil war and overwhelming
foreign intervention by Lebanon’s neighbors enabled Hizbullah to
emerge as the country’s dominant politico-military force.
Hizbullah disabled the Lebanese political system and, in its
capacity as Iran’s premier foreign proxy, allowed the Islamic
Republic to take the lead in the regional tug of war with Israel.
In its quest for achieving a distinguished regional status
commensurate with its ambitions, Iran used Hizbullah to abort the
Syrian uprising, actively contribute to its burgeoning influence in
Iraq, and participate in its propaganda war against Saudi Arabia on
a range of issues. The renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran coincided
with a worldwide campaign to dry up Hizbullah’s sources of
funding and compromised its integrity as a critical provider of
patronage to its Lebanese Shi’ite base of support. The emergence
of Russia as the real power player in Syria made it extremely
difficult for Hizbullah to justify the high human cost it incurred
to salvage the regime of Bashar Asad. This book examines the rise
of Hizbullah and the marginalization and repression of Shi’ites
that made them susceptible to exploitation by their sectarian
leaders.
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