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Hassan Nasrallah

Nasrallah’s Gallows Humor Comes Back to Haunt Lebanon

Nasrallah’s Gallows Humor Comes Back to Haunt Lebanon

Hezbollah’s leader is a master of ceremonies and narrative. The head of arguably the world’s most powerful nonstate militant group is blessed with an auteur’s sense of theatrics and spectacle. He exemplified the tenaciousness of the Lebanese and their exceptionalism, capable of achieving what the world bet they could not.

“Lebanon Will Be Last”

“Lebanon Will Be Last”

The obstacles are daunting, but no law of nature dictates that Lebanon must remain last in line to make an honorable and complete peace with its neighbor to the south, one that secures the interests of the “Precarious Republic” and its citizens.