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Holding a Gun, Hezbollah Lends a Hand

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Posted on Aug 5, 2006

Want to know some of the main reasons Hezbollah commands so much respect in Lebanon?


N.Y. Times:

TYRE, Lebanon, Aug. 5—Hezbollah paid for his wife’s Caesarean section. It brought olive oil, sugar and nuts when he lost his job and even covered the cost of an operation on his broken nose.

Like many poor Shiites across southern Lebanon, Ahmed Awali, 41, a security guard at an apartment building in this southern city, has received charity from Hezbollah for years. He says he is not a member. He does not even know the names of those who helped him.

Hezbollah fighters move like shadows across the mountains of southern Lebanon; its workers in towns and villages, equally as ghostly, have settled deeply into people’s lives.

They cover medical bills, offer health insurance, pay school fees and make seed money available for small businesses. They are invisible but omnipresent, providing essential services that the Lebanese government through years of war was incapable of offering.

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By Liz, August 7, 2006 at 5:42 pm Link to this comment
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Fadel Abdallah on 8/05 at 10:02 pm

I will say that you have this right on! Good post! wink

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By Fadel Abdallah, August 5, 2006 at 10:02 pm Link to this comment
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Hezbollah, with its meager resources and despite of all the obstacles it faces, was able to provide to the Lebanese people not only what the Lebanese government was not able to provide, but also what the so-called “Great United States” was not able to provide for one disastrous- stricken city of its union, New Orleans.

Who are then the forces of civilization builders versus the terrorists and destroyers of civilization?! The answer is obvious for those who have eyes to see and and brains to think!

Hezbollah is the type of government that should rule the world for the sake of the world’s own benefit and salvation. For me, this will be my new article of faith after I have lost all hope about the so-called “Western Civilization.”

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