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Thread #93626   Message #1824830
Posted By: bobad
01-Sep-06 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Hezbollah Winning?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Hezbollah Winning?
Yesterday's "Talk Of The Nation" program on NPR discussed the war in Lebanon from the perspective of Arab Americans. I didn't catch the entire show but one snippet I did catch was a Lebanese-American telling about how his uncle's 100 unit apartment building in Lebanon was destroyed by Israel's bombing.

The part that surprised me was that his uncle had sympathy for Israel and layed the entire blame on Hezbollah (contrary to what the propagandists have been spinning). He told about how Hezbollah set up their rockets in proximity to his apartment building and would ride up on scooters, fire them off the take off on their scooters knowing full well that the Israeli's would bomb the location and civilian structures would be hit.

I suspect that many more Lebanese have the same opinion of Hezbollah but are afraid to voice it for fear of retribution.

The program can be heard here