EPTOn April 15 2026 08:12 dyhb wrote:
The post-October 7th world has changed the recruitment scenario slightly. Prior to that, you were part of an Iranian-funded and trained state-within-a-state with over 100,000 rockets ready to fire onIsrael the zionist entity, with ample reason to believe you could obliterate the zionist entity (as Hezbollah's charter declares). Now, it's a teeny tiny bit different. Your longtime leader is dead, his deputies got pagered, the rocket attacks are now sporatic with depleted inventory, and your former base of operation is occupied by a hostile army.
So I reject the look to past recruitment to present recruitment. I'll repeat the full answer for your benefit. The Lebanese people outnumber Hezbollah, but have been under the thumb of Hezbollah, and are under no mystical belief that the Israel-Gaza situation upsets that status. They have seen the Hezbollah missiles and rockets flying to Israel, and have seen the missiles and rockets flying back. Bringing up Gaza-Israel as a primary motivation for the Lebanese to join terrorist regimes, given their experience with the current terror regime, is nonsense and I think you know it.
The post-October 7th world has changed the recruitment scenario slightly. Prior to that, you were part of an Iranian-funded and trained state-within-a-state with over 100,000 rockets ready to fire on
So I reject the look to past recruitment to present recruitment. I'll repeat the full answer for your benefit. The Lebanese people outnumber Hezbollah, but have been under the thumb of Hezbollah, and are under no mystical belief that the Israel-Gaza situation upsets that status. They have seen the Hezbollah missiles and rockets flying to Israel, and have seen the missiles and rockets flying back. Bringing up Gaza-Israel as a primary motivation for the Lebanese to join terrorist regimes, given their experience with the current terror regime, is nonsense and I think you know it.
I'm sorry to say but there's no content in this, it's just a bunch of words. The world in the future will be different seemingly only because you say so. People didn't decide to join Hezbollah based on the amount of missiles that they could get to launch on Israel, that's not the way humans make decision.
I realize that this is mostly academic because it's not like Israel will just stop attacking Lebanon in the scenario where "Hezbollah is gone", as obviously they don't really care about Hezbollah they just want to grab more land, so there's not going to be a future where we can demonstrate any of that. But really we shouldn't need a demonstration, your claim is dubious just on its own.
