Hezbollah threatens Lebanon’s president: ‘He will lose his status if he meets Netanyahu’

Hezbollah is "controlling" the south of Lebanon and they also have a sit in the government. The army cant touch them as Lebanon fear a second civil war so they pretty much control all of Lebanon at this point. They already murdered the last PM and Lebanon was to scared to do anything. Their bank is funded by iran so they always had outside funding to buy support from the citizens that suffered from their actions.

Hezbollah is part of Lebanons ruling coalition. Together with fellow Shia militants in Amal, they are 30 of 64 members of coalition of the 128 in parliament.

The southern part of Lebanon is where Hezbollah was supposed to have demilitarized/left and is where they are firing rockets from. The terrain overlooks northern Israel so thats why Israel focuses on that.

It’s pretty close but not in total. There’s a few other pockets, but they’re far from Israel’s border and the vast majority are all in south Lebanon where Israel is currently attacking. There are many civilians also living in these areas which is what makes it difficult, but hezballah has more funding than the entire Lebanon army, almost all of which comes from Iran, -80-90%. So Lebanon doesn’t really have the power to control them and Lebanon wants to avoid another civil war with them. The Middle East is just a very unstable region and there’s belligerents everywhere with governments either joining them or unable to control them, so in the end all the innocent civilians pay the price.

Yes Hezbollah de facto controls the South, Hezbollah is the one who started the last 3 wars against Israel and is the one who Israel is bombing and attacking. The vast majority of us Lebanese hate Hezbollah and want them eradicated.

Southern Lebanon is the "front line" of the border between Israel. Hezzbolah is all over Lebanon though. Not sure if you were curious, but you know how the cartels in Mexico have alot of control over the country? It's like that, but way worse. If we avoid using terms like "terrorist", Hezbollah can be described as a non-state Militia organization. Of its kind, they are the most well funded and armed. They are infamous for how large their rocket inventory was a few years ago and they have held their own against the IDF. Depending on which side you ask, they'll claim victory for it. Their interests are not exactly adversarial to Lebanon, its people and its government, but they aren't exactly in alignment either. Most of the people of Lebanon are not happy with Hezbollah and would prefer them to be disarmed. But this is a 60/40 issue, and the sides are very polarized; they either love them or hate them. And regardless of how you feel about an armed militia bossing you around, at least they're not destroying your homes and displacing you forcefully like Israel is. It should be pointed out that Lebbanon doesn't recognize Israel as a state, and most of its people dislike Israel.

From a very simplistic perspective, yes. And I don't say that in a negative way. Rather, it's the easiest way to get a fairly decent idea of the situation. It's why you see headlines about Israel bombing Lebanon and also headlines about diplomacy with the Lebanese government. Iran and Russia have been using groups like Hezbollah to wreak havock across the region for decades now. This is also why despite Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and so-on, the relationship between Israel and the various actual countries, like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, is probably better than it ever has been. Right now, Israel is doing a lot of the dirty work that no one wanted to, and can't publicly support. So yes, the simplest way to think of it is that Hezbollah has forced their way into Lebanon and the Lebanese government. What part of the Lebanese government remains doesn't actually like them, but also can't defend against them. Israel is targeting areas that Hezbollah has taken over and are using for military purposes. It's hard on the people, but the government knows is Hezbollah who is driving the destruction because of when, how, and where they choose to attack from. Ultimately, Israel is much more reasonable to deal with than Hezbollah. Israel's position is basically "stop bombing our civilians, we stop bombing the civilian infrastructure being used for bombing us". Hezbollah's position is basically "hide behind human shields and civilian infrastructure and make the world sympathetic to us so we can force Israel out of existence". Only one of those two things will ever happen, and it's the one where Israel continues to exist. Luckily, the Lebanese government is starting to realize that it is not so bad of an option.

I think the lines of control are messier than that. Hezbollah is in essence an Iranian invasion of Lebanon. They are an insurgent force with pockets of control. Yes, Israel is attacking those Iranian proxy pockets. However, Israel is not being terribly discriminate and the insurgent / mixed target environment has turned the entire situation into a humanitarian nightmare. The circumstances are muddier and harder to parse because Iran, Hezbollah, and Israel are all pumping loads of self-serving propaganda into the information space.

Hezbollah has many of their military assets in southern Lebanon (artillery, rockets, drones, etc) since it’s where most of the launch sites are located. However, they also can control territory in other parts of Lebanon. Entire neighborhoods in the capitol, Beirut, for example are Hezbollah strongholds. Hezbollah has strong support amongst the Shia population (30% of Lebanon’s population), so they have significant sway in the public and politics.

Lebanon was called the Paris of the Middle East. It was a majority Christian country. Then, it took in Muslim refugees from the area that became the modern state of Israel starting in 1948. After a civil war that pushed the Christian community into a minority government, sent many of the Christian population into other countries as Lebanese diaspora, the only party allowed to run a militia was Hezbollah. They are backed by Iran and are a well recognized by most international organizations as a terrorist organization. The leadership of Hezbollah published a manifest that explains their world views like anti-Jew, anti-Christian, anti-Zionism, anti-Americanism, and the establishment of an Islamic state governed by Sharia. Basically, ISIS but Shiite instead of Sunni.  The Lebanese government is not able to restrain the militant part of the Hezbollah party. The Hezbollah party is part of the government in Lebanon.  This dispute can be framed in North American terms in a sense that it would be like if in the USA the GOP started a militia that answers to no branch of the government but to the GOP. Then that militia shot rockets and otherwise bombed Canada to try and get Canadians to give up sovereignty and submit to American sovereignty to become part of the USA. 

If you can recall the absolutely massive explosion that happened in the port of Beirut Lebanon : [Explosion in the port of Beirut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion) Most studies indicate this was due to the corruption and administrative failures of Hezbollah. They are a major part of the elected government of Lebanon and grew to a point where they simultaneously have a bloc with effective veto power over all government activity and a larger private army than the technical Lebanese army. The explosion and subsequent display of corruption in attempts to shield themselves from blame has been considered by some as an action that started to turn electorate opinion against them within their districts. It provided a visible basis to a counter perspective that they could only be relevant politically if people felt the need for their protective and resistance against Israel. When comes to peace and managing a country though, they readily demonstrate their negligence and ineptitude. On paper, you see Israel attacking hezbollah in the south and pursuing a renewed buffer zone. It’s my opinion that the non-Hezbollah parties in the Lebanese government are actively colluding in this to weaken Hezbollah’s army as well as weaken them politically such that then non Hezbollah parties can retake majority control of the government.

Now you get it. People forget, if hamas and hezbolah didnt exist. Israel would not be bombing shit as we speak. They just wouldn't.

>Ok so pardon my ignorance here, but does Hezbollah just control southern Lebanon south of that main river? Yes. They are not only represented in Lebanese government, but the rest of the Lebanese government has essentially zero control in southern Lebanon. That's essentially a full Hezbollah state within a state.

People lack the understanding of how networks work; in favour of Iran. IRGC controls iran,lebabon, yemen. It is a sort of empire the westerners refuse to see.

Hezbollah controls Lebanon. Lebanon effectively has no military ( power of violence in Lebanon). The only power they have is constitutional but even that is limited by religious division built into their constitution and extreme corruption. — if Lebanon had military control over their country. I bet the Israel never would have invaded like they did. And France would be providing Lebanon with support, because it wouldn’t look like supporting a terrorist organization.

Hezbollah controls the whole thing. It has a section.M of Beirut itself that is its own turf (that’s why you hear about the IDF attacking there regularly)

And the Palestinians deserve to be free of Hamas. And Iranians deserve to be free of the IRGC. Godspeed to them all.

Nothing is stopping from coordinating with Israel to destroy Hezbollah. They just don't want to. They don't even recognize Israel.

This is the most important argument in this entire conflict: Regardless of your opinion of Israel, it's there now and it will stay. Learn to live with Jews having a sovereign state. Coexistence, even co-operation is possible, when the neighbouring countries accept this apparent fact.

If Palestinians had accepted the proposed peace and borders after the first war between Israel and Palestine, they would have had 2 independent nations which could have worked out something long term. But no, they chose to sell their own land to an Arabian league in return for eradicating Israel. When the coalition led by Abdul of Jordan attacked, it was not to liberate Palestinian lands, it was to split the land between them. As stated by him in an interview.

Don’t worry people on Listnook will find the way. If there is anything that is certain, it is that.

Kinda hard to do when Hezbollah parties own militants are better equipped than the countries own military.

Because… ignorant haters will hate…

UNIFIL are unless just like the UN. They have always been nothing but human shields for Hezbollah.

No. Hizbolla are fundamentalistic extremist. They belive their deaths, or any deaths to civillians due to their actions, is in service to a magical entity who's goals is the only thing that matters. Inhuman suffering to thousands upon thousands mean NOTHING to these types of people. Also, strangely enough, the goals of this magical entity is only clearly understood by a microscopic number of people, who then disseminate its truth to the rest of the people. If you need something closer to home, look at the current administration of the US, and all Evangelical "christian" cults that is in that nation, who does simply not care that they murdered over hundred girls under 8 with a missile strike on an elementary school. Or you can look at Nethanjahu's Israel. Iran's religious armies. Huities. The Crusades. The Jihads. Talking is all good between logical people. But when someone brings in fundamentalism or their personal "undying" Ego (Putin/Trump/Kim/Nethanyahu) into everything... Then logic dissapears, and logical people has the choice to stoop to bloodshed, or die for nothing because the fundamentalist wont care they killed them all.

None. As said time and time and again, “Who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.” If they don’t want peace, war will come to them