Mar 24, 2021
By Hugh Fitzgerald

When a report appeared in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot on March 12, reporting on the claim of Israeli officers to “know everything” about Hassan Nasrallah,
this enraged the Hezbollah leader and his loyalists.

A report on their latest fit of rage is here: “Hezbollah slams IDF report on Nasrallah’s paranoia, megalomania,” Jerusalem Post, March 15, 2021:

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Nasrallah is certainly a megalomaniac, believing himself to be at the center of what he thinks is the most important conflict in the world: the Arab and Muslim war to destroy the Jewish state. He presents himself as the sole leader of the terror group, without any present rivals or potential successors. He is omniscient; nothing escapes him; he does not have, and does not need, a second in command. He is known to micromanage, believing himself to be the world’s greatest authority, in the same way that Hitler would overrule his generals, believing himself to be a military genius. But he doesn’t like having the IDF point this out. Since the assassination in 2008 of Hezbollah’s military leader Imad Mughniyeh, with whom he was close, he has had no successor waiting in the wings.

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