Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah during a TV interview. (Credit: Al-Manar/screen grab).
The rules have changed. The Free Patriotic Movement is now playing with Hezbollah barefaced as if the end of Michel Aoun’s term in office freed the FPM from the commitments it found itself bound to respect when it was at the height of its glory.“Hezbollah and the Amal movement are conjoined twins. Any attempt to separate them will end up in bloodshed,” the former president said in a television interview four days before he left the Baabda palace, blaming Hezbollah for not “meeting him halfway” in his dispute with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.The interview was titled “When the president decides to come out of his silence” when it was first announced — this title was not a simple play with words. On that evening, the general’s bitterness came to light, as well as his determination to challenge Hezbollah.Commenting on his successor, Aoun...
The rules have changed. The Free Patriotic Movement is now playing with Hezbollah barefaced as if the end of Michel Aoun’s term in office freed the FPM from the commitments it found itself bound to respect when it was at the height of its glory.“Hezbollah and the Amal movement are conjoined twins. Any attempt to separate them will end up in bloodshed,” the former president said in a television interview four days before he left the Baabda palace, blaming Hezbollah for not “meeting him halfway” in his dispute with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.The interview was titled “When the president decides to come out of his silence” when it was first announced — this title was not a simple play with words. On that evening, the general’s bitterness came to light, as well as his determination to challenge Hezbollah.Commenting on...