The most recent poll I saw said 57%. This post here gives a good view of support by sect:
Support for Hezbollah
Shia 92%
Maronite Christians 25%
Orthodox Christians 30%
Sunni Muslims 35%
Druze 50%?
This is very close to what a recent survey found, though the Druze were not surveyed. Keep in mind that 33% or 1/3 of Lebanon came out for Nasrallah’s funeral. That’s a Hell of a lot of support.
I did a search on this question and my results were flooded with news articles from US, Israeli, Gulf Arab, and US Jewish news sources. All of these were biased and rather dishonest and tended towards promoting the idea that support for Hezbollah was low and crashing.
For some reason these anti-Hezbollah US, Israeli and Jewish voices dominate the Internet results, hence they dominate the Internet. I’m not exactly sure why that is, but the US media is not controlled by Jews though it was only recently. The US media is 30% Jewish, not fu…
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