Foreign Affairs: Hezbollah is capable of adapting and surviving as assassinations won’t destroy it
More than 40 days after Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s security general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Foreign Affairs magazine said that these assassinations won’t destroy Hezbollah.
The Foreign Affairs, in an article titled “Targeted Assassinations Won’t Destroy Hezbollah: The Dirty History of a Flawed Tactic.
On September 27, Israel assassinated, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, by dropping between 60 and 80 bunker-busting bombs on a densely populated neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
This strike, the other attacks that followed it, and the Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, all represent an escalation of the year-long escalation against Hezbollah’s leadership.
The Foreign Affairs pointed out that according to Netanyahu’s logic, and the logic of other Israeli government officials, these assassinations will help destroy Hezbollah forever, but the reality is that these assassinations are unlikely to succeed.
The Foreign Affairs explained that Hezbollah is a forty-year-old organization with a large social base, a political party represented in parliament and government in Lebanon, and enjoys support.
The article confirmed that Hezbollah is an organization capable of adapting and surviving, noting that Israel may succeed in temporarily fragmenting the group, but Hezbollah can reunite its ranks, and the new leaders are likely to take revenge on Israel.
Foreign Affairs reminded that throughout history, assassinations haven’t been a political solution but rather a tactic, and that they do nothing to resolve the underlying issues driving the conflict, as targeted killings prolong the violence rather than end it.
