✅ Voices from the Arab Press: Hezbollah plays up CNN interview

Politics

An-Nahar, Lebanon, July 18For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org A few days ago, CNN aired an interview with Ibrahim Moussawi, a Lebanese parliament member from the “Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc,” Hezbollah’s political arm. In it, Moussawi warned Israel against an invasion of Lebanon. Up until this point, the event was relatively unremarkable. However, immediately following the interview, Hezbollah’s propaganda machine exploited the interview, bestowing political and military significance upon it. Observers might have thought that Hezbollah had not only reached Jerusalem but had also hoisted its yellow flags over the White House. Moussawi defended his decision to interview with an American news channel, claiming that the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation reshaped ...

Jerusalem Post     Jul 29, 2024