Since leaving the Amal party in <a href="https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/hezbollah">1982</a>, Hezbollah — meaning “Party of God” — has established a name for itself like no other. A Shiite Islamist terrorist group committed to Israel’s destruction, Hezbollah has arguably become Lebanon’s most powerful political party, obtaining <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/lebanon-s-elections-hezbollah-in-the-driver-s-seat">veto</a> power and a position in the current leading coalition, which <a href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-does-hezbollah-want-lebanons-health-ministry">controls</a> the majority. Now the highest-grossing terrorist group, receiving <a href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-does-hezbollah-want-lebanons-health-ministry">$700 million</a> from Iran out of its likely $1.1 billion in total <a href="http://e.forbes.co.il/1-hezbollah-annual-income-1-1-billion/">income</a>, Hezbollah has achieved notoriety, executing high-profile attacks: The U.S. Marine <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/world/meast/beirut-marine-barracks-bombing-fast-facts/index.html">Barracks</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/iran-helped-al-qaeda-with-the-1998-u-s-embassy-bombings-in-africa">embassy</a> bombings. Hezbollah has since furthered large-scale regional discord, provoking wars with Israel, supplementing Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian Civil War, and now, threatening Israel with <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/12/10/israels-blitz-of-hezbollahs-terror-tunnels-will-help-win-the-pr-war/">140,000</a> rockets and impending war.
Despite its antagonism, Hezbollah has also established a reputation for its deceitful “benevolence,” creating an elaborate welfare system that many Lebanese cannot resist and the under-resourced Lebanese government cannot match. This welfare system — entailing infrastructural, medical, and educational services — has fueled a dependency cycle through which many, especially disenfranchised Shiites, turn a blind eye to terrorism and reciprocate support for Hezbollah in return for social services. To defeat Hezbollah, policymakers must overcome Hezbollah’s “bene-violent” duality and offer economic considerations to displace Lebanon’s dependency on Hezbollah’s welfare apparatus.

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