Today, with shifting internal and regional conditions, and the growing costs of reliance on weapons—especially after the latest Israeli war—a quiet, self-evident question emerges: How can dignity and security be safeguarded through a just state, rather than through parallel channels?

The “war of support,” this catastrophe, if it can be called that, is one of the deepest and most challenging calamities to have befallen the Shia community since the establishment of Greater Lebanon. Never before in their history have the Shia in Lebanon felt such anxieties about uprooting, displacement, or extermination as they do today.