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Eylon Levy discusses with Jonathan Elkhoury the implications of Lebanon confronting Hezbollah and the historical context of this issue.

Send us Fan Mail Support the podcast and keep it independent. 👉Subscribe on Patreon for $10/month: For years, the world treated Hezbollah as a problem to be managed... or ignored. Now Lebanon is being forced to confront what that evasion has cost. In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Jonathan Elkhoury, a Lebanese-Israeli and the son of an officer in the former South Lebanon Army, about Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon, why the Lebanese state failed to dismantle it aft...

People in this episode

Host: Eylon Levy

Guest: Jonathan Elkhoury

Topics covered

• Hezbollah
• Lebanon
• political conflict
• state failure
• Middle East

Keywords

• Hezbollah
• Lebanon
• Eylon Levy
• Jonathan Elkhoury
• politics
• Middle East
• state failure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hezbollah

Places: Lebanon, South Lebanon

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