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Popping Hizbullah's Resistance Bubble
(Daily Star-Lebanon) Michael Young - Hizbullah has sought for years to position itself as a protector of the Lebanese state - hence its insistence on retaining its weapons. With the car bombs in Beirut, Hizbullah has been utterly incapable of even defending its own community. Hizbullah has imported the Syrian war into Lebanon and has become a hostage to the grinding, open-ended battle on behalf of a Syrian regime delighted to have fresh, non-Syrian bodies to feed into the battle. Even as it seeks to impose a form of hegemony inside Lebanon, Hizbullah has been shown to be no better than an auxiliary force regionally for both the Iranian and Syrian regimes.