Lebanese TV presenter Dima Sadek criticizes Hezbollah in view of looming threat of war
Dima Sadek, a Lebanese journalist and television presenter, claimed on her MTV Lebanon show last month that there is nothing left in Lebanon except Hezbollah and its weapons.
Sadek stated that there is no electricity infrastructure in Lebanon and condemned Hezbollah for its recent threats against Cyprus, saying it cannot withstand a fight against the European Union.
“Do you know who we resemble? The passengers of the 9/11 planes,” Sadek said of the Lebanese public. “We are like airplane passengers who do not see what is happening around them. We are led by one person (he means Hezbollah) and we have no idea where we are heading… The only thing we know for sure is that this person is leading us to disaster and certain death.”
A 2024 poll conducted by the Washington Institute found that support for Hezbollah in Lebanon remains sharply divided along sectarian lines.
According to the survey, 34 percent of Sunnis and 29 percent of Christians have a “somewhat positive opinion of Hezbollah,” and 89 percent of Shiites said they have a “very positive” opinion of the group.
Sadek had previously publicly criticized Hezbollah and partly blamed the group for Lebanon’s economic crisis in 2019.
Tensions are increasing
As tensions rise on the northern front, war looms between Israel and the Iranian proxy terror group.
“We are facing a hellish, existential war. We are being held hostage. We have been kidnapped,” Sadek said.
On Thursday, Hezbollah fired over 200 rockets and 20 drones at Israel’s Galilee and Golan regions in response to the Israeli military’s elimination of senior Hezbollah commander Muhammad Neamah Nasser.
In addition, between 20 and 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Sunday morning.
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