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December 3, 2025

As the Deadline to Disarm Approaches, Hizballah Has Lost Its Credibility

The collapse of the “resistance narrative.”

In 2007, fresh from its war with Israel, Hizballah was widely admired in the Arab world—among Sunni and Shiite alike—for its courage and apparent success at taking on the IDF directly. Since 2012, that reputation declined because of the Shiite group’s role in the Syrian civil war. Makram Rabah explains where that reputation stands now in its native Lebanon: 

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