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Hizbullah Loses Popular Lebanese and Shia Support
(JNS) Hany Ghoraba - For the first time in more than four decades, Hizbullah appears frail. Hizbullah is no longer perceived by the Lebanese public as a defender of their land. Prominent Lebanese Shia scholar Ali Al-Amin stressed on Al Arabiya on Oct. 10 the necessity of handing over Hizbullah's weapons to the Lebanese army. One desperate Lebanese resident of Beirut's southern district, a Hizbullah stronghold, said in an Oct. 17 viral video: "Our building is destroyed...We don't have money to eat....They should remove their munition storage from underneath our homes." Shia Muslim analyst Hadi Murad said, "This Iranian expansion is calling for fighting till the last Shia Muslim in Lebanon....The Iranian is not welcome to give us orders from above and below so we would fight for him and he is sitting at the negotiation table." The writer, an analyst at Egypt's Al Ahram, is a senior fellow at the Investigative Project on Terrorism.