I hope you're right Stephen, but I think Hezbollah will always try to manipulate Lebanese people into demonizing Israel, the same way right-wing warmongers demonize arabs in general. The source of power of these evil persons is conflict, war itself.
BTW, it's not an irony the fact Arafat became a (undercover) billionaire by monopolizing oil distribution in Palestine... On 8/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Helio W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I believe there's an similarity (superficial and crude of course but > IMO somewhat valid) between what happens in Brazil and what happens in > Lebanon. In Brazil the organized crime oppress AND helps poor people > (substituting many state's functions) and everytime the police strikes > heavily these poor and innocent people suffer from state's violence, > on and on and on again. But the criminals are the ones in direct > contact with those people in the day to day reality, living amongst > them. It's easy for that people to think that their real enemy is the > government (only present in crime repression operations), not the drug > dealers. > > I think the lebanese people are by now so drenched in hatred after > seeing bombs falling everywhere due to Israel disproportional reaction > that they can only think in short term and about revenge. I agree with you that in the short term the people feel united with Hezbollahh, but over the next couple of years the people will see through the affliction and find out that Hezbolla is only interested in it's own way of life. that any who look or talk differently will be severely dealt with. Many people say "follow the money" and that will certainly come true in the next 3 years of any rebuilding effort to southern Lebanon.
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