By RAMZY BAROUD - February 4, 2010

One thing we all know by now is that Israel is a highly militarized country. Its definition of ‘existence’ can only be ensured by its uncontested military dominance at all fronts, thus the devastating link between Palestine and Lebanon. This link makes any analysis of Israel’s military intents in Gaza, that excludes Lebanon...seriously lacking.

By Robert Fisk - 21 January 2010

...[H]ere's the big question[:]...If Israel ignores Obama and attacks Iran's nuclear sites...the Hizbollah could fire rockets into Israel, perhaps even revealing its new anti-aircraft missile capacity. Hamas might join in from Gaza. Hamas is a tin-pot outfit; the Hizbollah is not. An Israeli attack on Iran will unleash Iranian military power against America. But part of that power is Hizbollah in Lebanon. This is serious business.

By DANIEL DRENNAN - January 13, 2010

From an America that doesn't deserve him, Emory Douglas is coming to Beirut. For fifty dollars, one can enter an Art Center's hallowed halls and benefit from a workshop with the artist...Meanwhile, in a Lebanon that deserves him less, the Voices most in need of him remain outside, ever marginalized; waiting to be lifted, their song never heard.

By Amal Saad-Ghorayeb - 13-08-2009

The Hizbollah movement in Lebanon emerged intact and confident from war with Israel in July-August 2006. Since then it has reinvented its strategy, arsenal and thinking to pose an even greater threat to its enemy to the south.

By ESAM AL-AMIN - June 12-14, 2009

...[T]he make-up of the current parliament changed only by one seat from the previous one...Moreover, the real surprise was that Gen. Aoun’s party, the coalition partner of Hizbollah, received, according to the results announced by the Lebanese interior ministry, 52 per cent of the Christian vote, though picking up fewer seats than his Christian rivals. Only in a fantasy world would such numbers be declared “a clear repudiation of Hizbollah’s coalition program,” as the clearly biased mainstream media...would have you believe.

The reasons are multifactorial, but primarily involve heavy-handed American interference, Israeli threats and salient political endorsements.

Two articles

A respected former Lebanese prime minister says the West has nothing to fear should the Hezbollah-led opposition win Sunday's national election...[Salim el-Hoss], a Sunni Muslim...[said] “Hezbollah is not the monster it is made out to be in Israel and the West...Sunnis are the people most sensitive to any threats from Shiites. I'm Sunni, and I can assure you, there's nothing to worry about.”

By FRANKLIN LAMB - March 4, 2009

The [election], just 12 weeks away, has tightened dramatically and it is commonplace to hear citizens list the names of the countries backing one faction or another with money, political influence or both...Earlier predictions of a Hezbollah landslide have evaporated with the Party of God and its allies now playing scrappy defense in face of an intense US orchestrated political onslaught.

By Ramzy Baroud - Znet

Gaza's resistance is nothing short of a 'miracle', said Aljazeera's military expert. Millions of Arabs around the world agree. The New Middle East defined in Lebanon in July-August 2006, was confirmed in Palestine in December-January 2008-2009. A new language with new terminology and a new culture is springing up from the ashes and the rubble of Gaza. Arabs are eager to define themselves and shed years of defeat and defeatism. A New Middle East, indeed.

By FRANKLIN LAMB - Counterpunch

Many questions are being asked throughout Lebanon about whether the Hezbollah leadership will yield to growing pressure from all parts of Lebanon and within its ranks to force Israel to lift its destruction of Gaza? If so, are there ways it could be done without a igniting a sixth war in Lebanon?...These days the Lebanese Resistance, led by Hezbollah is on Full Red Alert and there is a palpable sense of foreboding in many Hezbollah supporting neighborhoods.

By Roee Nahmias - December 15, 2008

"America and Israel are attempting to obliterate the Palestinian issue in all of its parts," Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said during a televised interview with the organization's Al-Manar network on Monday...He said the Palestinian refugee issue was not receiving a hearing in the US, Israel, and the Arab states, and called on the "brothers in Egypt" to open the Rafah crossing indefinitely.

by Karin Leukefeld - Monthly Review

Nawaf al-Moussawi is Deputy Secretary and a member of the Politburo of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Al-Moussawi, a Doctor of Philosophy, is Hezbollah's spokesman for international relations.

By FRANKLIN LAMB - November 18, 2008

"We, as Lebanese, are here to confirm that we cling to freeing every grain of our soil. We will not abandon the great national cause, which is the continuation of the liberation of our land. The resistance looks forward to hoisting the flags of victory again over the Kfarshuba hills, Shebaa Farms, Ghajar and Abbasieh where 80 percent of the land is still occupied".

--Sheik Nabil Qwork, Hezbollah leader addressing villagers at Abbasieh Village, 10/2008

By FRANKLIN LAMB - September 23, 2008

The fundamental consequences of the 1982 Massacre at Sabra-Shatila and the founding of Hezbollah are two seismic events from the same time and place which some argue are locked in an embrace that will return Palestine to the Palestinians.