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May 20, 2022

Elections in Lebanon Won’t Shake Hizballah’s Hold on the Country

The Iran-backed terrorist group is disappointed with the results, but will carry on nonetheless.

In the Lebanese national elections, held last Sunday, Hizballah fared poorly, winning only 62 (out of 128) seats in the parliament, and thus losing its previous 71-seat majority. The Christian Lebanese Forces party—the Iran-backed terrorist group’s major political opponent—meanwhile gained four new seats. But electoral disappointments won’t weaken Hizballah’s deeply entrenched control of the country, writes Eyal Zisser:

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