Lebanese Hezbollah miscalculated on Friday when it launched rocket attacks on the Israeli-held Golan Heights.

Claiming to be the great, loyal servant of the Lebanese people and the best means of resistance to Israeli aggression, Hezbollah’s narrative is one that fuses nationalism to Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamism. But this narrative has two problems. First, Israel does not occupy Lebanon and has not done so since 2000. The rationale for the resistance is thus moot.