Recent inquiry into the crisis concept asserts that affective states of insecurity can propose an instrumental profit to elites trying to maintain extant power relations. Via their discursive construction, such imaginative landscapes aid warrant prior illegal forms of political action, rationalize raised forms of collective sacrifice and inspire nobel disciplinary technologies amid political subjects. This study employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) to handle Hizbullah’s mobilization of a specific ‘crisis imaginary’ as part of its attempts to justify its ongoing participation in the Syrian civil war. This perceptual regime acts to maintain a ‘state of exception’ for Hizbullah, maintain the practice of martyrdom as a form of Girardian ‘mimetic desire’ and build a broader moral universe that persists in binding the party’s audience to the resistance society while upholding their continued compliance.