There Are Many Arabs That Support Hezbollah? No Way!
We tend to think of public diplomacy scholarship as barely-disguised terrorist apologism - but that's not to say that it's not well-informed barely-disguised terrorist apologism! And it's pretty much a consensus among the public diplomacy people that Marc Lynch is near-unparelled in terms of being well-informed. So when even he says that the majority of the Arab world supports violent terrorist militias...
What do those publics think? Hard to say conclusively, of course. Outside of Lebanon (where Hizbollah is a local, not a regional, issue). The Arab public clearly does not share the 'official' Arab irritation with Hizbollah - Hassan Nasrallah is widely admired, and appears frequently on al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, and surveys which have asked about Hezbollah have generally shown that it is considered a legitimate national resistance movement and is admired for its "victory" over Israel in 2000.
... we tend to take that as a kind of admission that maybe anti-Israel violence is about something more than "root causes".
What do those publics think? Hard to say conclusively, of course. Outside of Lebanon (where Hizbollah is a local, not a regional, issue). The Arab public clearly does not share the 'official' Arab irritation with Hizbollah - Hassan Nasrallah is widely admired, and appears frequently on al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, and surveys which have asked about Hezbollah have generally shown that it is considered a legitimate national resistance movement and is admired for its "victory" over Israel in 2000.
... we tend to take that as a kind of admission that maybe anti-Israel violence is about something more than "root causes".
