hezbollah

Hezbollah, whose name means “Party of God” is a terrorist group who opposes the Western World and is considered an enemy of Israel. The Hezbollah was founded in 1982, as part of the Iranian Government Revolutionary Guard Corp. Israel’s invasion of Southern Lebanon in 1982 served as the trigger to mobilize the population of politically active and militant Shiite in Hezbollah. The Hezbollah wanted to adopt an Iranian philosophy as a solution to the Lebanese political problems. This philosophy included the use of terror as a means to supporting Lebanon. According to Jonathan Masters, in an article written for the Council on Foreign Relations in 2014 Hezbollah operates mostly from Lebanon’s Shiite controlled areas, parts of Beirut, Southern Lebanon the Bekka Valley.

The Hezbollah’s principles were formed as a result of the Iranian Revolution. The Hezbollah believed the United States were to blame for many of Lebanon’s problems. Israel was perceived as an extension of the United States and viewed as a foreign power. The Hezbollah self-proclaim to be a moderate national liberation organization aimed at introducing Islam World Wide. It portrays an image as a group who would rather not commit acts of terror. However, their only exception to this belief of ‘Do No Harm’ is if they believe that an act of terror would benefit the Muslim world. The Hezbollah believe that an Islamic republic, modeled after Islam to be ideal. Hezbollah’s ability to effectively use of violence and political discourse into a campaign of resistance has significant threat implications within Lebanon.

The Hezbollah supports the destruction of Israel and cooperates with other Islamic organizations such as the Hamas to accomplish this goal. According to an article in ...

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... its nuclear program. Hezbollah already believes itself to be in a conflict with the U.S, and it now wants to show how much worse the situation could become if tensions continue to build.

According to an article (Analysis Intelligence, 2013) there is a growing terrorist threat to the United States because Hezbollah has established a footprint in Mexico. Hezbollah has successfully used Mexico as a safe haven to smuggle weapons, into the United States has created a growing threat to the U.S. by providing Hezbollah the ability to access and strike targets on American soil. The danger in having terrorists in Mexico blending into the Mexican population is that it makes it much more harder for the authorities to accurately identify these individuals as terrorists and gives these terrorists the mobility to move about Mexico and possibly within the Unites States freely.