“The threat we face is existential,” Nasrallah said. “We now have three options: to expand the war and fight far more than we have fought in the last four years, to capitulate and be slaughtered, or to disperse throughout the world, walking humiliated and purposeless from catastrophe to catastrophe.”
5月下旬，黎巴嫩真主党领导人哈桑·纳斯鲁拉在演讲时就叙利亚战争对其组织的影响进行了充分的阐释。“我们所面临的是存在性威胁”，纳斯鲁拉说。“我们现在有三个选择：扩大战争，打比过去四年多得多的仗、投降并遭受杀戮、或者分散到世界各地，屈辱而漫无目的地从一场灾难走向另一场灾难。”