Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim political party and militant group based in Lebanon, where its extensive security apparatus, political organization, and social services network have fostered its reputation as “a state within a state.” Founded in the chaos of the fifteen-year Lebanese Civil War, the Shiite group is driven by its opposition to Israel and its resistance to Western influence in the Middle East.
Led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament.
Hezbollah was established in the wake of the 1982 Lebanon War by Lebanese clerics who had studied in Najaf. It adopted the model set out by Ayatollah Khomeini after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the party's founders adopted "Hezbollah" as the name chosen by Khomeini. The organization was created with the support of 1,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps instructors, and aggregated a variety of Lebanese Shia groups into a unified organization to resist the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.
During the Lebanese Civil War, Hezbollah's 1985 manifesto listed its objectives as the expulsion of "the Americans, the French and their allies definitely from Lebanon, putting an end to any colonialist entity on our land". From 1985 to 2000, Hezbollah also participated in the 1985–2000 South Lebanon conflict against the South Lebanon Army (SLA) and Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and fought again with the IDF in the 2006 Lebanon War. During the 1990s, Hezbollah also organized volunteers to fight for the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.
Since 1990, Hezbollah has participated in Lebanese politics, in a process which is described as the Lebanonisation of Hezbollah, and it later participated in the government of Lebanon and joined political alliances. After the 2006–08 Lebanese protests and clashes, a national unity government was formed in 2008, with Hezbollah and its opposition allies obtaining 11 of 30 cabinet seats, enough to give them veto power. In August 2008, Lebanon's new cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement that recognizes Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to "liberate or recover occupied lands" (such as the Shebaa Farms). Hezbollah is part of Lebanon's March 8 Alliance, in opposition to the March 14 Alliance. It maintains strong support among Lebanese Shia Muslims, while Sunnis have disagreed with its agenda. Hezbollah also has support in some Christian areas of Lebanon.
Since 2012, Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian civil war has seen it join the Syrian government in its fight against the Syrian opposition. Between 2013 and 2015, the organisation deployed its militia in both Syria and Iraq to fight or train local militias to fight against the Islamic State.
From 2006, the group's military strength grew significantly, to the extent that its paramilitary wing became more powerful than the Lebanese Army. Hezbollah has been described as a "state within a state", and has grown into an organization with seats in the Lebanese government, a radio and a satellite TV station, social services and large-scale military deployment of fighters beyond Lebanon's borders.The group currently receives military training, weapons, and financial support from Iran and political support from Syria, although the sectarian nature of the Syrian war has damaged the group's legitimacy. In 2021, Nasrallah said the group had 100,000 fighters.
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okay, I wasn't hoping to vent again, I wasn't trying to get upset again, but I kind of need to vent again since it just always something with me, but I need to talk about my dad... .again
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I'm upset about my dad cough because I just heard it again and it sounds very bad.my dad has this cough for a while now, but it wasn't bad or not really concerning? but ever since he came back home last week. it has been very bad. and I have told my dad how he should really see a doctor a few times, but he keeps ignoring me. saying how it's not that bad and everything fine. meanwhile I could have headphones on with music loudly and still hear him coughing really badly. I could hear him far away when he has his bedroom door shut while he trying to sleep. He might not say it's bad, but it sounds pretty bad and he should at least get it CHECKED OUT
but nooo why get it checked out. it's fine right? it's all FINE. ITS FINE IT'S FINE IT'S FINE. I don't want to cry again. That cough legitimately makes me think of the worst that he's dying. and I legitimately can't not go through that again because I already lost my mom this year when she was dying from copd and sepsis and stuff. I really can't.
and maybe I'm just being overly worried since it just a cough right? just a very bad... cough, but just a cough. that's all. but like. he did almost drink himself to death this year. and that cough seriously makes me worried it something related to his drinking again and. and. that it's not good. like it's a bad harbinger and im getting upset again so soon, so fast.
just why doesn't he want to go fucking see a god damn doctor. just fucking see one. just see one. just see one. just see one. see one. see one. it the same shit with his drinking. he doesn't want to see a therapist or some professional, despite everyone encouraging him to, and even when he sober he doesn't want to see someone. why the fuck does he ignore me. why the fuck does he ignore everyone around him. why don't we matter? why don't I matter?
what the fuck is stability. what the fuck is being fine anymore. what the fuck is the point of even trying anymore. while here I am coming apart again so fast, and back into this pit of darkness. I am so tired and I am tired of constantly trying of going on and on and just for what? I am starting to not want to anymore. I'm just gonna go get some sleep I guess since at least sleeping, I can forget I exist and this world exists. and I tend to feel better after sleeping.