Is Hizbollah a terrorist group?
The Hizbollah (“The Party of God”) guerrilla was formed among other militias during the war in the eighties. It was mainly composed of radical Shiite Muslims with a platform calls for the establishment of an Islamic republic in Lebanon. It was sponsored by Iran and Syria. During the ninety’s, and while Syria occupied 90% of Lebanon and Israel occupied around 10% of it, Hizballah played a higher Lebanese profile and a lower radical call for Islamic state. The guerrilla gained popularity as a means of resistance against one of the two occupiers by fighting against Israeli occupation of Lebanon. However, and after the Israeli pullout from Lebanon in May 2000, Hizbollah refused to disarm and enroll solely in the civilian social and political life. It changed its pronounced aim from liberating Lebanon to ‘protecting the Syrian occupation of Lebanon’. This behavior deprived it from most of its Lebanese popularity. Furthermore, Hizbollah proved by occupying the Southern territories that were
