How To Use Hezbollah In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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U.S. academic Finkelstein meets top Hezbollah official in Lebanon
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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In an exclusive interview with NewsMax, the Lebanese-born Phares likens the current Hezbollah offensive in Lebanon to a "putsch" -- with the convoluted aims of reestablishing a pro-Syrian-Iranian regime in Lebanon, reconstructing a third wing to the Tehran-Damascus axis, reanimating the Arab-Israeli conflict, rejuvenating Syrian dominance, isolating Jordan, reaching out to Hamas, crumbling Iraq, and unleashing Iran's nuclear programs.
Archive 2006-08-01
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All of this adds to recent speculation of increased posturing and counter-espionage ongoings between Israel and Hezbollah (along with the Lebanese intelligence services) involving the destruction of telecommunications towers in Southern Lebanon and the break-up of an Isreali spy ring earlier this year.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup
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The tribunal is expected to indict members of the powerful Lebanese Shiite faction - Hezbollah.
Tensions Mount In Lebanon Over Hariri Murder Probe
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And instead, they're upset about it, because Hezbollah is a "legitimate political party", and banning it will "stigmatize" them.
Daimnation!: The federal government has finally
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Hezbollah guerrillas have been bombarding Israeli troops, which occupy a parcel of land called the Sheba (ph) Farms at the foot of the Golan Heights.
CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2002
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And conveniently forgotten in fallacious references to a cycle of violence is that — following from their oft-stated call for the destruction of Israel — Hamas, Hezbollah (which is more or less an Iranian expeditionary force), Iran itself, and the Arab confrontation states are the parties that want to change the status quo, by violence and by their own flamboyant admission.
Why Israel Needs the Bomb
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DAN GILLERMAN, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.: Well, what is going on at the most is a number of Israeli ground troops very near to the border on the Lebanese side, trying to destroy some Hezbollah outposts.
CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2006
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Despite a couple of Hezbollah rocket launches, the cease - fire is holding in Israel and Lebanon.
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For worse or "worser" the rightward drift of the Israeli electorate underlies a deep disenchantment, resentment and apprehension with the state of its external security embodied by the troika of terror that Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran pose to Israel's security.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Bibi & Avi or Tzpi & Avi: Change We Can't Believe In
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Israeli forces shot five Hezbollah militants in two separate incidents.
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Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, today said his fighters will turn southern Lebanon into what he called a graveyard for Israeli troops.
CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2006
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The overflights are a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a devastating 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah militia.
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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Ask a secular Palestinian or Lebanese civilian which of their political parties they trust most, and even the most begrudging among them may name Hamas or Hezbollah as the "cleanest" of their politicians.
Sharmine Narwani: Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah
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Lebanon is girding for the unsealing of indictments by a U.N. tribunal in the case of Hariri's murder, which is widely expected to implicate Hezbollah and maybe also the Assad regime.
Don't Bank on Beirut
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The U.S. branches of Hezbollah are more antonymous, and they ` ve been more directed for the second tier of fundraising, procurement of weapons, training, recruitment.
CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2006
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As for its successor, the ultramontane Sunni Hamas, and its even more chiliastic Shia half-ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, they do not want any accommodation or compromise, and they do not pretend to.
Sesquipedalian Blatherskite
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The Sunni leader, who recently tried to mend relations with Syria by stating he had been wrong in accusing Syria of his father's murder, reaffirmed his commitment to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) over the killing of his father and defied Hezbollah's demand that Lebanon officially accuse Israel of the murder.
Adla Massoud: Lebanon and the STL
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There are Security Council resolutions that have been approved that took note and took note of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon, and called on all militias in southern Lebanon to disarm, which is something Hezbollah has certainly -- has not done.
CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2006
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Even when Hezbollah substantially outguns its rivals, it tells its followers they are fighting from a vulnerable position of weakness.
A Privilege to Die
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So in the case of Cuba, this would mean, changing the form of government, releasing political prisoners, giving an atomic wedgy to Hugo Chavez, etc.; or with Iran, ending their nuclear program, changing their political system, cutting off funding to Hamas and Hezbollah, etc.
Archive 2008-06-01
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MEIR: First of all, a buffer zone will enable -- or will disenable any force, hostile force to launch multiple bombs into Israeli cites in the northern part, to kill enough soldiers, and to use all kinds of mines against Israeli patrols, because we have to make sure that this zone is clean of Hezbollah.
CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2006
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They pointed to an upsurge in antigovernment guerrilla activity inside Iran, including a bomb in Zahedan, the economic center of the province of Baluchistan, that killed 11 soldiers in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on February 14; the mysterious death of the Iranian scientist Ardashir Hosseinpour, who worked on uranium enrichment at the Isfahan nuclear facility; and the defection of a high-ranking Iranian general named Ali Asgari, a former deputy minister of defense who was also the Revolutionary Guard officer responsible for training and supplying Hezbollah during its war against the Israelis in southern Lebanon in the 1980s.
Grand Illusions
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That Hezbollah, with its Iranian connection, with its connections to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, are advancing a version of Islam, which is basically and fundamentally anti-Western, anti-Israel, and seeks to establish the kind of rejectionist hold on the region.
CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2006
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They will create comparisons designed to mislead: Reut said there is a "coalescence" between "two parallel processes" - the so-called delegitimization forces, such as NGOs and leftist organizations, and the militant Islamist efforts led by groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
IToot Stream
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So on the one hand, you have these jihadist fighters with that jihadist intensity of Hezbollah and guerrilla campaign, and yet they are well funned, well armed and well trained, Wolf.
CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2006
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Iran's ongoing support for Hezbollah and Hamas, coupled with its direct participation in the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, constitute sufficient casus belli to justify a reactive Israeli military strike against the Iranian nuclear program.
Warning Iran Against Hitting 'Soft' American Targets
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Hezbollah Leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad banqueted together and discussed "the latest developments in the region, and Zionist threats against Lebanon and Syria," according to Lebanese Al-Manar television, in reference to Tel Aviv's saber rattling hinting at a fresh conflict with Hezbollah.
Patrick Galey: Nasrallah and Ahmadinejad's Banquet of Defiance
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If there was ever of picture of a total stalemate, that it is, but the one thing the MSM does not want to entertain is any suggestion that the Qana incident was staged by Hezbollah.
The "Green Helmet" mystery continues
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The letter, introduced by career Israeli legmen, Mark Kirk and Steve Israel also informs the White House that "We must seek to support stronger multilateral efforts to disarm Hezbollah and clear southern Lebanon of Iranian weapons," despite the fact that international lawyers at the US Library of Congress Research Service recognize that the new Lebanese government's acceptance of Resistance arms moots certain provisions of UNSRC 1701, and 1559.
Countercurrents.org
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ROBERTS: But, Mr. Ambassador, the European Union has expressed concern at what it calls a disproportionate response to the kidnappings by Hezbollah.
CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2006
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This impressionability made him a poor political historian but a fabulous bellwether of the mood on the street—specifically, of the mood that Hezbollah was trying to cultivate at any given time.
A Privilege to Die
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Before this fall, "3.14" coalition of the evening of 21 Druze leader Jumblatt said Hezbollah-led camp backward, making the two camps now matched the seats in Parliament.
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Moustapha Badreddine, brother-in-law of the late Hezbollah military supremo Imad Moughnieh, topped the four-man list, but otherwise the details of the indictment remain sealed.
Lebanon's Justice Delayed
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BRENT SADLER, CNN BEIRUT BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): After more than two months in hiding, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah breaks cover -- a mass of followers assemble amid the ruins of Hezbollah's stronghold, south of the capital, Beirut, to hear him speak.
CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2006
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Instead, Bush gave Israel carte blanche to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon, allowing the indiscriminative mass killing of innocent men, women and children on both sides.
Think Progress » 34 percent:
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Rather, Hezbollah sprang from the resentment of Lebanon's long-oppressed Shiite population, and the bounteous backing of Iran.
The Lessons of the Second Lebanon War
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I agreed with de La Sablière on a phrase admonishing “concerned states and other parties,” an unfortunately typical example of UN-speak, but one that we could say made clear that Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah were all covered.
Surrender is not an Option
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Even then, while Hezbollah and Hamas launched their rockets from nurseries and infirmaries, Israel behaved with unparalleled restraint, doing everything in its power to forewarn civilians of coming offensives and then using state-of-the-art munitions with laser-like precision to reduce, as much as humanly possibly, collateral civilian casualties.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Tom Friedman Slanders Israel
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The shakeup was a Hezbollah message to Saudi Arabia and its Prime Minister Saad Hariri that in Lebanon, the group alone calls the shots.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Lebanese-Israeli Clashes: What Really Happened
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Salamey said the Hezbollah channel also focused on stories that supported the Syrian government's claim that protesters are receiving support from outside the country, broadcasting pictures of what it described as confiscated weapons that had been smuggled from Lebanon, through Jordan and even the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
Hezbollah Supportive of Egyptian, Tunisian Uprisings But Not Syria's
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Instead, Sasser showed him a home videotape of a Hezbollah demonstration in Beirut and asked if he could identify anybody.
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Berri accompanied us all the way south, in various heroic poses—Berri resting chin on hand and looking pensively into the distance; Berri in a manly political embrace with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah; Berri shaking one finger in the air; Berri making a fist and looking like a wiseguy in black sunglasses.
Day of Honey
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Despite the quietly voiced complaints about them from his allies, he also praised Hezbollah.
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And if we are reacting mutedly, than we're inviting further attacks and further arming of Hezbollah.
CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2006
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Last night on The World Over on EWTN with Raymond Arroyo was a Melchite Archbishop who said 95% of the Muslims in Lebanon are good and peaceful and live amicably with Christians, it is the radical Hezbollah, the minority, who use sayings from the Koran to incite violence.
Neo-Nazi influences in radical Islam
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They said Nasser wouldn't have been hired by the BBC because of what they described as his biases and having worked for Hezbollah's
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Hezbollah rockets found their target in the Israeli port city of Haifa.
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It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah's Hay Madi barracks.
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Pressure for his resignation has been building since Monday, when a government commission blamed Mr. Olmert for what it called his severe failures during Israel's war against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas last summer.
CNN Transcript May 2, 2007
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“If we organize a celebration, too many people are concerned whether we will put the name Hezbollah or the name Amal on it,” she complained.
A Privilege to Die
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She says President Bush will ask Congress to approve a grant of $770 million for Lebanon's long-term redevelopment and rebuilding from last summer's battle between Hezbollah and Israel.
CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2007
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TRANSLATION OF ALI LARIJANI, IRANIAN NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: Hezbollah does not need Iranian weapons.
CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2006
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Yeah, there\'s that whole first black nominee for president thing, but more significant is the fact that the greeting, which has been described by confused white journalists as a \ "fist bump, \" \ "closed-fist high-five, \" \ "a frat-tastic fist bump\" and \ "\'Hezbollah\ 'style fist-jabbing, \" is finally being introduced to mainstream culture.
Katie Halper: The Obama Pound: In Historic Moment, White People Exposed to "Fist Bump" for First Time
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When Hezbollah offers to turn this into a world war, I wonder ... will they, or are they overimpressed with their own power?
OpEdNews - Diary: Is It a World War?
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A terrorist underworld - including groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Jaish-i-Mohammed - operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities.
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Iran has Revolutionary Guards stationed in Lebanon and it, effectively, holds sway over extremistShiite Moslem terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah, the Party of God.
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But ignoring it or treating it with condescendence, motivated by the achievements in Libya, would cost Obama dearly, especially if he fails to take decisive action in Syria or provides Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon -- as well as the regime in Damascus -- with a way out.
Raghida Dergham: How Will Iran and Hezbollah Respond to the Syrian Regime's Predicament?
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Hezbollah seems determined to disestablish Israel, and after nearly three decades of trying to do so believes its goal is in reach.
A Privilege to Die
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He said Hezbollah started the crisis and is the nation of Lebanon hostage.
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Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent…
Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
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When the government failed to step down after almost two months, Hezbollah called a daylong “strike” on January 23, 2007.
Day of Honey
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Hezbollah is waging "asymmetrical" warfare against Israel based on increasingly radicalized and even fanaticized mass support.
Nathan Gardels: Beginning of the End for Israel?
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BLITZER: Is he, though, a legitimate target for what they call targeted assassination -- the leader of Hezbollah?
CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2006
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It is in a state of paralysis and people believe, people who are working this situation as I have been told by western diplomats, that this could head to a reignition of the '75 civil war, because the one million Sunnis there are not going to just stand by and say, here, Hezbollah, have the country.
CNN Transcript May 13, 2008
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And Hezbollah led a political coalition in Lebanon that recently overthrew a pro-Western government in Beirut.
Iran Adds Palestine Statehood Wrinkle
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I recall the acrimony poured out towards Jews on this nasty little "current affairs" show after the Hezbollah and Hamas wars and how an audience purposely packed with a crowd of rentaMuslims who have not appeared in such numbers since, how strange made the then US Ambassador cry after a particularly vicious and orchestrated post 9-11 backlash set up by the extremists at the BBC troughers Gentlemans Club on same "current affairs" show.
OPEN THREAD
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So how is it that Beirut's political establishment, soon to be under the effective control of Hezbollah and under the influence of Syria and Iran, seems unanimous in its resolve to reappoint Riad Salameh to a fourth term as governor of the central bank?
Don't Bank on Beirut
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For similar reasons, Iran, the sponsor and "cultivator" of Hezbollah comes out looking better, becoming better accepted as non-Arabs in the Muslim world.
Lebanon Winners and Losers and The Future of Warfare.
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I imagined what we must look like to the Hezbollah men crouched resentfully in their tents: two unveiled women, one of them eating pink cotton candy and wearing a cherry-red jacket; one cranky old hajji, barely able to walk, supported by her son, who seemed to have brought her to the tent city expressly so she could parade through and tell them they were bums.
Day of Honey
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But Hezbollah fired so many volleys of rockets from the nearby orchards that it feared reprisal bombings against the crowd that would gather to bury the dead in the open field by the ancient hippodrome.
A Privilege to Die
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While Fadlallah sometimes condemned suicide attacks, what had become standard procedure for Hezbollah set the template for the post-9/11 age of terror, and Fadlallah was one of its most char ismatic theorists.
Iran and Hezbollah's Spiritual Leader
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The White House has given Israel time to "defang" Hezbollah and is oddly silent as the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon grows.
Think Progress » Kristol Suggests People of Iran Would Embrace U.S. Attack, Triggering Regime Change
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The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon is revealed as a Potemkin village because the real power is Hezbollah - further "legitimized" by the democratic vote.
"This defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation."
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But, in the past few weeks, we have been witnessing Israel conducts what it calls pinpoint operations in and out of Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon.
CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2006
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BLITZER: The president and other U.S. officials are blaming Syria and Iran, and using what they call their proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, to create this crisis, perhaps, perhaps as a diversion from the issue of Iranian nuclear weapons.
CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2006
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ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: Well, it has to be a successful battle to stop the rocketing of Israeli towns and cities by the criminal Hezbollah terrorist organization.
CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2006
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A terrorist underworld - including groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Jaish-i-Mohammed - operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities.
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Remember how, while constantly singing the praises of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama for his "multilateralist" and sophisticated view of the world, our pundits killed off entire forests blasting Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his lack of "nuance" in supporting Israel when it was under attack from Hezbollah rockets in 2006?
Winnipeg Sun
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Suddenly word came that four of the TWA hostages had been kept behind, still held by Hezbollah who were said to be seeking a “nonbelligerency” guarantee from the United States.
Turmoil and Triumph
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Iran has Revolutionary Guards stationed in Lebanon and it, effectively, holds sway over extremistShiite Moslem terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah, the Party of God.
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But wire reports of "colossal damage" to Beirut in retaliation for the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Haifa tell a distinctly different story, that is, a spiraling conflict that is fast turning the capital city of a sovereign nation to rubble.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Already, members of the Da'wa Party, many of whom were taught in Iran, have taken over mosques in Basra, and members of Hezbollah have heavily infiltrated the Shi'ite population, in addition to Iranian intelligence and members of the Pasdaran-i-Inqalab Iran's Revolutionary Guards to pave the way for vilayet-e-faqih.
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It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah's Hay Madi barracks.
