Eduardo Vasco
Hezbollah's continued participation in the coalition government may be numbered, due to the offensive of reactionary forces against it, in alliance with Israel.
The current government of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is actively working to hand over Lebanon's sovereignty to the greatest enemies of the Lebanese people: the Zionist regime of Israel and American imperialism.
Since the beginning of the criminal aggression by Tel Aviv and Washington against Iran in early March, which extended to southern Lebanon, the Lebanese government has promoted a series of legal measures to prevent popular resistance against the invasion of its own country by the Israeli army.
On March 2, Hezbollah attacked Israel not only in retaliation for the aggression against the brotherly people of Iran, but also in response to repeated ceasefire violations by Israel. The two sides had established a ceasefire in November 2024, following the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon as part of the genocide in Gaza. However, Israel carried out more than 10,000 violations of Lebanese airspace and more than 1,400 ground incursions by the beginning of this year, according to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The tally of violations compiled by UN experts is even more staggering: more than 2,000 in the last three months of 2025 alone.
What was the action of the Lebanese government ? No, it did not mobilize a single soldier to protect the country's territorial integrity in the face of thousands of Israeli military incursions. On the contrary: it condemned Hezbollah's operations to defend Lebanese territory and banned them, declaring them "illegal."
Moreover, Nawaf Salam called Hezbollah's defense of Lebanese sovereignty "irresponsible acts," while Aoun accused the party of "dragging the country into war" - as if Lebanon had not already been at war for more than two years, a war against Israeli military invasion in which the only force fighting the invaders is precisely Hezbollah.
For his part, Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi had already stated that "Israel has the right to continue its attacks as long as Hezbollah remains armed." As can be seen, safeguarding sovereignty and protection against external threats is far from being the minister's objective.
But this ceases to be surprising when one discovers that Raggi belongs to the far-right Lebanese Forces party. The party was founded by Bashir Gemayel - the notorious CIA and Mossad agent who became president of Lebanon and whose Phalange, under his command, together with the Israeli army, carried out the infamous Sabra and Shatila Massacre against Palestinians just days after his death.
As revealed by renowned American investigative journalist Bob Woodward in his 1987 book VEIL - The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, Gemayel was recruited and began receiving regular payments from the CIA in the 1970s. When he became president of Lebanon, he began receiving clandestine paramilitary assistance from Israel, and Ariel Sharon pressured Ronald Reagan to send him another ten million dollars. "Bashir maintained close relations with Sharon and with the Israeli Mossad," Woodward wrote in his highly revealing work.
Given this history, it would not be surprising if it were revealed that the government of Raggi, Salam, and Aoun is a proxy of Mossad and the CIA. There is no shortage of indications, as we are seeing. Even more so after Aoun accused Hezbollah of acting "on behalf of Iran," without taking into account "the interests of Lebanon and the lives of its people."
Again: the only organization that is defending the sovereignty, interests, and lives of the Lebanese people is precisely Hezbollah. And this is a Lebanese tradition: it has been so since the founding of the party, at the beginning of the Israeli occupation, which only ended with the expulsion of the invading forces by Hezbollah itself. It was so again in 2006. And it is so now. Meanwhile, successive Lebanese governments have been either openly collaborative or, at the very least, complicit in the crimes committed by the Zionist entity against their own people.
Since last year, Lebanese government authorities have been implementing an attempt to encircle Hezbollah in order to disarm it under the pretext of pacifying the country. But the party has never agreed to this unilateral decision, which was made following pressure from the United States and Israeli governments. In September, Washington's special envoy, Tom Barrack, explicitly stated that the Pentagon is arming the Lebanese army to fight Hezbollah: "who else would they fight ? Are we arming them to fight Israel ? I don't think so," he told National News.
In other words, while Lebanon is being invaded by the greatest enemies of the Arabs and of peoples around the world, the Lebanese army and state are trying to disarm the population - after all, Hezbollah's armed wing is a true people's army - in order to leave it defenseless in the face of the invaders.
In early March, Lebanese armed forces arrested dozens of people for possession of weapons and ammunition following the government's decision to ban Hezbollah's military activities.
Meanwhile, the current Israeli aggression against Lebanon has already killed more than 1,000 people and wounded 3,000 Lebanese. They add to the more than 3,500 civilians killed in the October-November 2024 invasion and the approximately 500 killed during the ceasefire from November 2024 until the end of February 2026. In total, therefore, around 5,000 Lebanese civilians have been killed by Israel in the past year and a half - not to mention the use of white phosphorus by the Israeli army against civilians, documented by international organizations.
Hezbollah is a popular organization of struggle and resistance with revolutionary potential. This is why the fragile Lebanese bourgeoisie, intrinsically linked to and dependent on imperialism, as well as other landowning, clerical, and military sectors tied to the ruling minority, have launched an offensive to annihilate Hezbollah.
The Middle East, a classic powder keg, is experiencing a revolutionary period triggered by Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and continued by Iran's war against the United States and Israel. The house of cards that constitutes the monarchical, military, and "liberal" bureaucratic regimes - such as Lebanon - is beginning to collapse. Hezbollah represents the interests of the Lebanese nation and the Arab nation within Lebanon, the interests of oppressed peoples. Its existence is a threat to the exploiters of the Lebanese people, allies of the exploiters of all peoples in the region.
The question for Hezbollah, in such a scenario, is the following: Lebanon is sustained by a coalition government in which Hezbollah participates thanks to the popular authority it gained through the military expulsion of the Zionists in the two wars at the turn of the century. In a certain sense, since Hezbollah emerged as the main Lebanese party - a party of the most oppressed masses - Lebanon has lived with a kind of dual power. On one side, the traditional forces of order, the bourgeoisie, imperialism, and Zionism, currently represented by Salam and Aoun. On the other side, Hezbollah and its ally, the Amal Movement - but above all Hezbollah's social services, in areas such as healthcare, education, construction, and even energy and water supply, which help hundreds of thousands of people excluded from Lebanese government services.
Now this class conciliation is more strained than ever. The Israeli war of aggression against Lebanon is a new turning point: the ruling class, anti-Hezbollah, prefers to hand the country over to Israel and annihilate the main organization of the Lebanese people rather than form a united front with Hezbollah to expel the invader; Hezbollah resists with weapons in hand and strikes back against the foreign enemy, defending Lebanon's sovereignty.
Hezbollah's continued participation in the coalition government may be numbered, due to the offensive of reactionary forces against it, in alliance with Israel. The popular masses who believe in Hezbollah, as well as its militants and leaders, may begin to realize once and for all that the policy of alliance and conciliation with the Lebanese big bourgeoisie and bureaucracy has been exhausted and that from now on it will only be detrimental to the struggle for Lebanon's definitive independence.
Hezbollah is the party of the Lebanese people and the army of the Lebanese people. It does not need any alliance with those who have repeatedly proven to be in the service of Israel and the United States against the Lebanese people. Hezbollah's alliance, as already proven through struggle, is with the Axis of Resistance and with Lebanese organizations that truly fight for the expulsion of the invaders. It is the only alliance that will guarantee the complete and definitive victory of the Lebanese people: victory against its external and internal oppressors.