Hezbollah: Background and Issues for Congress

Casey L. Addis and Christopher M. Blanchard | Congressional Research Service | 2010-10-08

This report presents an overview of Hezbollah's political and military activities within the context of Israel, Lebanese politics and U.S. policy interests. "Hezbollah continues to define itself primarily as a resistance movement and remains viscerally opposed to what it views as illegitimate U.S. and Israeli intervention in Lebanese and regional affairs," the report states. "It categorically refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist and opposes all concluded and pending efforts to negotiate resolutions to Arab-Israeli
disputes on the basis of mutual recognition, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."