Hamas and Hezbollah’s Political Spectacles
A Birdseye view of Hassan Nassrallah’s funeral. Credit: AP
On Gazan landscapes of genocide, domicide, and educide, Hamas emerged, as if from the rubble, after the ceasefire to deliver showstopping releases of Israeli hostages. To the loud cheers of thousands of spectators, one group of hostages after the other climbs the podium, by turns smiling, waving to the crowds, and thanking their captors.
On Lebanese landscapes, last Sunday the 23rd, Hezbollah, whose resistance Israel severely tested and whose communities it hammered and displaced by the hundreds of thousands, threw a showstopping funeral for its martyred leader, Hassan Nassrallah. In unison, the huge mass of supporters chanted, fists raised high, labaika ya Nassrallah, we are at your command, Nassrallah.