Even many of the Shi’a in Lebanon now want Hezbollah to be disarmed, so that their country can be spared further attacks by Israel, and a peace agreement can be reached between their country and Israel. More on Hezbollah’s loss of Shi’a support is discussed here: “Two-Thirds of Lebanese Shias Want Hezbollah Disarmed as Survey Finds Openness to Peace With Israel,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, October 13, 2026:
A new Lebanese opinion poll points to mounting pressure on Hezbollah to relinquish its weapons, even among its traditional Shia base of support, with a clear majority of respondents backing state control of the Iran-backed terrorist group’s arsenal and nearly two-thirds supporting some form of agreement with Israel.
The latest data comes as Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist group which for decades has exerted significant influence across Lebanon, continues to refuse to disarm despite the US, Israeli, and Lebanese governments all demanding disarmament to move forward with a broader ceasefire and potential peace deal.
According to the poll conducted by the Statistics Lebanon Institute, a Lebanese public opinion research organization, among the country’s Shia community, 66.4 percent of respondents support transferring Hezbollah’s weapons to the state, compared with 29.6 percent who believe the Shia terrorist organization and Iran’s chief regional proxy should retain its arsenal.
Among the survey’s key findings, 63.3 percent of respondents expressed support for some form of agreement with Israel, whether through direct negotiations, mediation, or a comprehensive regional deal.
The newly released survey, which was conducted nationwide in September among 800 Lebanese citizens of the Shiite community aged 18 and over, also found that 71.1 percent of respondents believe the Lebanese government should have sole authority over matters of war and peace, while just 5.9 percent support giving Hezbollah’s leadership a greater role in the country’s future.
Hezbollah has been hemorrhaging support from its core constituency, the Shi’a in Lebanon. It never had the support of either the Christians or the Sunni Muslims, but it least felt that its fellow Shi’a solidly supported it. No longer.
Even more striking, 78.5 percent of respondents expressed confidence in the Lebanese Army, with 51.1 percent identifying it as the institution most capable of ensuring long-term security, compared with just 16.5 percent who gave Hezbollah that distinction.
The Americans have been strengthening the Lebanese National Army with hundreds of millions of dollars in weaponry. At the same time, the IDF has greatly weakened Hezbollah. Since October 8, 2023 (when Hezbollah joined Hamas in attacking Israel), the IDF has killed about 10,000 members of the terror group. It has also seriously wounded about 4,000 Hezbollah members with its exploding pagers, rendering 1,500 completely unfit for further service. The IDF has destroyed 80% of the arsenal of 150,000 missiles and rockets that Hezbollah possessed at the outset of the latest war. And finally, the IDF has located, and destroyed, many miles of underground tunnels belonging to Hezbollah, including those beneath the Ali Taher Ridge, where the IDF blew up two tunnels spanning more than 2 km combined using over 1,000 tonnes of explosives. The loss of men, of weapons, and of hiding places for both has made Hezbollah less of a threat to the Lebanese National Army (LNA), which has been seizing weapons caches belonging to Hezbollah.
More than two-thirds of the Shi’a in Lebanon believe that Hezbollah has failed to achieve its objectives. It has done little damage to Israel. But it has provoked a deadly response by the IDF to its rocket and missile attacks, that has destroyed a great deal of infrastructure, especially in the Shi’a stronghold of southern Beirut. More than two-fifths of the Shia are, as a consequence, disappointed and furious with the terror group that claims to represent them. More than one-third of the Shia want Hezbollah to give up its weapons and become a political party.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, a Maronite, and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, a Sunni Muslim, have long been opposed to Hezbollah, that has brought so such damage to Lebanese infrastructure by its attacks on Israel, to which the Jewish state powerfully responds.
The UN peacekeepers have so far proved useless in the ongoing struggle to weaken and disarm Hezbollah. Can you imagine them daring to demand that Hamas hand over its weapons, and being willing to fight when Hamas refuses? The effort by the Americans to build up the Lebanese National Army by supplying it with weapons, and by the IDF to keep killing Hezbollah fighters, seizing their weapons caches, and destroying the terror group’s huge armories of rockets and missiles, including those hidden in tunnels that have now been blown up, is the only way to disarm Hezbollah. And now the latest opinion polls show that two-thirds of the Shi’a support that policy; Hezbollah has brought them nothing but destruction and they want it, at long last, permanently disarmed. And 63.3%, or close to two-thirds, of the Shi’a are even ready to support a peace agreement with Israel.
ed says
Don’t disarm them
eliminate them
mgoldberg says
I bet ⅔ of the Nazi party would have voted to disarm the party and the army had they been given the choice at the end of that war. Fortunately- they weren’t. Herein lies the lesson.
Taffy says
The lopsided fracture among Shia muzzies invites an opportunity for Mossad to have dissenters send the GPS coordinates of Hizb’allah weapons stashes, tunnels, headquarters, and personnel concentrations to Israel for evaluation of its veracity and then for airstrikes to eliminate the threat.
Billy says
As Allah states, 100% of Allah’s Muslims are a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against Non-Muslims with Muslim hatred, discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism to gain more taxpayer money, more political power, and more government control as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah inspires religious hatred because Allah’s enemies, the Non-Muslims, are Allah’s worst creatures since they do not believe in Allah. Allah in Qur’an 8:55 says, “Surely the worst creatures before Allah are those who became infidels, so they do not believe.” See also Qur’an 7:179; 98:6. Plus, ALLAH’S MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.”