Why Does Europe Think Hezbollah Is Only Partly Terrorist?

Why Does Europe Think Hezbollah Is Only Partly Terrorist?

The European Union is poised to add the military wing of Lebanese Hezbollah to its list of banned terrorist groups. Why not the whole organization? Let’s start by saying that it will be good news if the U.K. can persuade the other 26 EU countries to list even part of Hezbollah as a terrorist outfit. Europe has held off for far too long -- even after the Bulgarian government connected Hezbollah to a bus bombing last July that killed five Israeli tourists and their driver. The designation would make it much harder for the group to finance its operations through Europe and its banks, or for European officials to talk openly with it.

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