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Accompanying the raid were dozens of airstrikes that obliterated major military installations across Syria — all part of an Israeli campaign to preemptively defang Syria’s new authorities.

Hezbollah’s opponents are intent on defanging the Iran-backed group once considered one of the world’s top paramilitary factions and Lebanon’s most powerful political party.

Digital rights campaigners, Foxglove, said it showed the CMA had been "defanged."

In recent weeks, anti-Hezbollah parties worked together to choose a president and prime minister espousing policies to defang the group and strip it of its arsenal.

Whatever bigotry is portrayed here — like when the local pastor refuses to hug Desiree the way he does all other church-going ladies — is defanged by the loving community that surrounds the Slates.