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November 22, 2024

Hizballah’s New Leader Doesn’t Have What It Takes to Maintain the Public’s Trust

“More schoolkid than orator.”

On Wednesday, Naim Qassem made his third public appearance since becoming the secretary-general of Hizballah. A Lebanese writer using the pseudonym Nassim Badani provides a portrait of Qassem, whom he describes as lacking the charisma that contributed to the success of his predecessor, Hassan Nasrallah. While Badani’s assertion that the IDF has killed “thousands” of Lebanese civilians in the current war is dubious, as are his claims that Hizballah has “thwarted Isarel ground advances” and struck “key military installations,” his analysis of Qassem is worth reading:

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