Amid the fighting in Lebanon, one name keeps coming up: Hezbollah. According to the United States and Israel, Hezbollah's members are Iranian-backed terrorists. Nonetheless, the group is a political force and provider of social services to some in Lebanon.
Guests:
Augustus Richard Norton, professor of international relations at Boston University
As'ad Abukhalil, professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at UC, Berkeley
Dan Schueftan, deputy director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa in Israel
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