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Quiet honestly, i don't see the point of a Hezbollah makeover! The only choice it has, if it wants to have a modicum of legitimacy, is to morph itself into a LEBANESE political party (and spout LEBANESE loyalties and a LEBANESE agenda, instead of their Islamist Iranian projects... Hezbollah's Amal progenitor realized long ago that an Islamic Republic is unfeasable in Lebanon.) Frankly, I don't see how Hizbollah can reinvent itself and have a LEBANESE appeal. without their weapons and their nazi-like intimidation and extortion tactics, they won't be able to even muster the requisite Shi'ite support, let alone become a Lebanese party. How 'bout that name to begin with? How 'bout loosing that "Allah" part of their archaic moniker?? Hell, even Hazem Saghieh (the one who used to mock the Lebanese flag calling it 'the broccoli') has recently conscented to the particularism of Lebanon and is presently maneuvering to assimilate and normalize the "Christian" Lebanese narrative as LEBANESE history tout court. But Saghieh was a secularist marxist to begin with, and his rehabilitation was possible albeit difficult. I don't see a Party of God going through a similar transformation.
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Quiet honestly, i don't see the point of a Hezbollah makeover! The only choice it has, if it wants to have a modicum of legitimacy, is to morph itself into a LEBANESE political party (and spout LEBANESE loyalties and a LEBANESE agenda, instead of their Islamist Iranian projects... Hezbollah's Amal progenitor realized long ago that an Islamic Republic is unfeasable in Lebanon.)
Frankly, I don't see how Hizbollah can reinvent itself and have a LEBANESE appeal. without their weapons and their nazi-like intimidation and extortion tactics, they won't be able to even muster the requisite Shi'ite support, let alone become a Lebanese party. How 'bout that name to begin with? How 'bout loosing that "Allah" part of their archaic moniker??
Hell, even Hazem Saghieh (the one who used to mock the Lebanese flag calling it 'the broccoli') has recently conscented to the particularism of Lebanon and is presently maneuvering to assimilate and normalize the "Christian" Lebanese narrative as LEBANESE history tout court.
But Saghieh was a secularist marxist to begin with, and his rehabilitation was possible albeit difficult. I don't see a Party of God going through a similar transformation.
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