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Thread #149360   Message #3476693
Posted By: Steve Shaw
07-Feb-13 - 07:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Israel condemned by UN
Subject: RE: BS: Israel condemned by UN
Hezbollah are vicious, murdering, indiscriminating terrorists.

Wrong, Keith. They are an integral part of the government in Lebanon. They are involved in infrastructure development and they run hospitals, schools and agricultural training institutions, and they enjoy the support of a large proportion of the Lebanese population. Your ignorant, dismissive, demonising characterisation of Hezbollah is absolutely typical of the attitude that is forever going to prevent peace from taking over the region.

wiki:

An IRIN news report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted:
"Hezbollah not only has armed and political wings – it also boasts an extensive social development program. Hezbollah currently operates at least four hospitals, twelve clinics, twelve schools and two agricultural centres that provide farmers with technical assistance and training. It also has an environmental department and an extensive social assistance program. Medical care is also cheaper than in most of the country's private hospitals and free for Hezbollah members."
According to CNN, "Hezbollah did everything that a government should do, from collecting the garbage to running hospitals and repairing schools." In July 2006, during the war with Israel, when there was no running water in Beirut, Hezbollah was arranging supplies around the city. Lebanese Shiites "see Hezbollah as a political movement and a social service provider as much as it is a militia."


I suppose that, if you were to ask the people in southern Lebanon whose kids have had their legs and feet blown off by some of the hundreds of thousands of deadly cluster bomblets (US made) left there in their fields by Israel, it wouldn't be Hezbollah they'd be calling vicious, murdering, undiscriminating terrorists. Though I fully expect that you'll come up with some way of blaming them for it.