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i put the edito here because i think it impacts on your conception of what you are talking about when you consider the question posed in the op.
as it stands, i find the op incoherent in that it asks questions that refer to matters of principle that are neither settled nor obvious.
you would think, for example, that the question about hezbollah's "assimilation" after the conflict would necessarily involve the particularlities of lebanese law and political structures, wouldn't you? unless the op is really asking you to evaluate the questions based on some vague sense of the legal situation drawn mostly from your impressions of american law, as if that law was a kind of universal model--which it self-evidently is not.
what is hezbollah ayway? the op implicitly situates it as some kind of alien body within lebanon--it isnt.
the op presupposes access to information about context that enables a coherent assessment of the questions posed: i do not see any agreement about that context and posted the monbiot piece to raise problems about that context.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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