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US
/ˈhɛzbɑˌɫə/
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NOUN
- a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon
How To Use Hezbollah In A Sentence
- Reut said there is a "coalescence" between "two parallel processes" - the so-called delegitimization forces, like NGOs and leftist organizations, and the militant Islamist efforts led by such groups as Hamas and Hezbollah. Window Into Palestine
- Hezbollah's chief says they're holding him after what he described as a complicated security operation. CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Crisis in the Middle East: Hezbollah Guerrillas Claim They Have Captured Another Israeli Soldier - October 15, 2000
- Israeli also holds Syria accountable for attacks by Hezbollah fighters against Israeli troops occupying land at the foot of the Golan Heights, called the Sheba (ph) Farms. CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2003
- The legitimate government of Lebanon has an interest in disarming and disbanding Hezbollah in conjunction with Israel. Think Progress » Israel agrees to 48-hour suspension
- U.S. academic Finkelstein meets top Hezbollah official in Lebanon The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel
- What has happened over the course of the last four weeks is that most of the Hezbollah fighters have either engaged, attrited the Israelis, or they've evacuated and they've expanded to the north. CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2006
- Syria and Iran partner closely in arming and financing the main Arab groups fighting Israel — Hamas in the Palestinian territories and Hezbollah in Lebanon. U.S. Woos Syria in Mideast Peace Push
- So the question of dealing with Hezbollah, or whether they deal with themselves by becoming a real political party instead of a terrorist group, is obviously on the agenda.
- Prompting the walkout is the much anticipated and imminent announcement by the United Nations Tribunal doing the investigating of the killings of official indictments against Hezbollah terror operatives reporting directly to Hezbollah's Secretary General Sheikh Nasrallah -- Hezbollah's mini ayatollah and Iran's puppet agent provocateur. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Firestorm Among Lebanon's Cedars
- Thus, when in 2000 they withdrew from the security zone they had established in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah moved in, and then their withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 resulted in a takeover by Hamas — eventuating in both cases not in peace or even improved prospects for peace but in war and more war. How Obama's America Might Threaten Israel
