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November 29, 2018

Hizballah Is Trying to Take Over the Lebanese Economy

The next step in turning Lebanon into Hizballah and Hizballah into Lebanon.

In March, Hizballah’s leader Hasan Nasrallah declared in a speech that his group, which effectively controls the Lebanese parliament, would begin to focus on reducing government corruption and enacting financial and monetary reforms. Elisheva Simon explains that this was not mere propaganda but signaled a shift away from the longstanding arrangement whereby the terrorist group left the management of the Lebanese economy to its Sunni allies. She writes:

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