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Originally Posted by host
djestudo, please read as much as you can and consider what is reported today, in the context of what has come before. Read about Jinsa, and about AIPAC.
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Host, those have absolutely nothing to do with anything I said, nor with what I asked.
As opposed to
this, which tells me everything I need to know.
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Hezbollah or Hizbullah[1] (Arabic omgحزب الله, meaning Party of God) is a militant, radical, Lebanese Islamist group, with a military arm and a civilian arm, founded in 1982 to fight the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.
Along with the Amal movement, Hezbollah is the main militant organization representing the Shia community, Lebanon's largest religious bloc. Founded with the aid of Iran and funded by it, it follows the distinctly Shiite Islamist ideology developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. It calls for the establishment of an Islamic state in Lebanon, on the principle of sovereignty of the jurisconsult, although recognizing that this could only come about with the consensus of the Lebanese people.
The civilian wing of Hezbollah runs hospitals, news services, and educational facilities and participates in the Lebanese Parliament. Its Reconstruction Campaign (Jihad al-Bina) is responsible for numerous economic and infrastructural development projects in Shia-populated areas of Lebanon.
Hezbollah is regarded by some in the Arab and Muslim worlds, such as the Iranian and Syrian governments, as a legitimate resistance movement and is a recognized political party in Lebanon, where it has participated in government.
However, as it initiates attacks against civilians in Israel and ideologically supports such attacks by other organizations, such as Islamic Jihad and Hamas, and many governments, including the United States, have designated it a terrorist organization(*).
On March 10, 2005, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that stated `Parliament considers that clear evidence exists of terrorist activities on the part of Hezbollah and that the EU Council should take all necessary steps to curtail them.'
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Sounds to me like it is essentially the same thing as Hamas: a terrorist organization masquarading as a political party.
I have no doubt that there are innocent people involved here. However, I also have no doubt that there are a hell of a lot of guilty people as well, and to ignore the guilty would be sending a terrible message to anyone who wants to protect the innocent.