Mick Hartley

Nassim Badani (a pseudonym) on Lebanon after the death of Nasrallah:

All the blood is in vain. With deterrence now gone, the blood of Hezbollah’s many martyrs is in vain. The blood Hezbollah spilled in Syria to keep its ally, President Bashar al-Assad, in power was in vain.

Hezbollah and their allies killed hundreds of thousands to help Assad claw back control of the country. They supposedly entrenched themselves on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, promising a new front with Israel if war were to break out.

None of that happened. Bashar has been quiet and largely stayed out of the conflict in Gaza. The so-called Golan Front was never activated — was there ever one to begin with?

Invading Syria was sold as the necessary action to preserve and improve Hezbollah’s resistance capabilities. But when it came to it, these capabilities seemed nowhere to be found.

In the end, Hezbollah turned into a cliche. Across the 20th century, Arab despots instrumentalized the Palestinian cause and, under the pretext of fighting Israel, turned their guns on their own people and sowed tyranny….

Nasrallah is dead. No one is coming to save us.