Killing Hezbollah Leaders Failed 30 Years Ago. It Won’t Work Now

On Feb. 16, 1992, a decade into the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, Israel assassinated Abbas al-Musawi, Hezbollah’s co-founder and Secretary-General. At the time, Israeli media praised the army’s decisive action, predicting that “the age of tussling with Hezbollah on its home turf, the Buffer Zone, is over,” and that al-Musawi’s death would mark the beginning of “a new [...]