Can Hezbollah join the Lebanese consensus?

An essential yet difficult point to understand and explain is the relationship between Lebanon as a state and a society and Hezbollah. The answer is in the political system and its weakness, which is at the same time its strength. Its weakness is that it leads to foreign intervention, breakdowns and violence, while its strength is that it has the ability to reset and grow stronger after every crisis. Lebanon skipped the 20th century; it never became a sovereign, homogeneous, secular nationalist state with a unified national identity and strong state institutions.

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