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Last year, Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, began sowing the seeds of doubt, deploying all the tools at his disposal to convince us that the killers could not have been anyone from his party. His most famous sleight of hand was to show us dubious, not to mention out-of-date, aerial footage of Beirut’s road network and offer it as proof that Israel had been tracking Hariri’s movements so as to best plan its attack. By the time the envelope was unsealed last week, the spell had long been cast. It was Israel. Nasrallah told us so.

Had there been video footage of Nasrallah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad jointly flicking the detonator switch as Hariri’s motorcade sped past the St. Georges Hotel on that fateful day, we would still believe they were Israeli lookalikes. Israel is our security blanket, our Xanax—call it what you will. We are a people who don’t want to consider any alternative to a safe but ultimately stunting worldview that casts Tel Aviv as the villain. Buying into Israel as the bogeyman is the drug we take to assure ourselves all is well.

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