The Bulgarian Politician Trying to Rally Europe against Hizballah
But many still fear the terrorist groups, and its Russian patrons.
February 1, 2021
The Bulgarian Politician Trying to Rally Europe against Hizballah
But many still fear the terrorist groups, and its Russian patrons.
While Hizballah has for four decades successfully terrorized civilian populations on at least three continents, European states have proved painfully slow to designate it a terrorist group, let alone impose sanctions and other law-enforcement measures. Both the EU itself and France only applied the designation in 2013, but still hold fast to a fictitious distinction between the group’s terrorist “military wing” and its supposedly legitimate “political wing.” Nonetheless, the continent has begun to acknowledge the dangers of Iran’s Lebanon-based proxy, and last year six Central European states banned Hizballah completely. Much credit, writes Alex Benjamin, is due to Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the former deputy prime minister of Bulgaria:
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