Nasrallah...The Legend That Was Buried With Him
“Imagine if he had not died,” my interlocutor says over the phone from Beirut. He has close knowledge of Hezbollah and is in daily contact with its broader social environment. He poses a hypothetical question: What if Hassan Nasrallah had survived and had been the one required to lead the confrontation? He does not mean a military confrontation with Israel. “That is what the party is doing, and that is its playing field,” but rather “a confrontation with himself, his supporters and his community over this catastrophe he brought upon them.”
