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Lebanon’s Anti-Heroes

Surveying_the_damage_inflicted_by_Israel_in_July_2007_of_Bint_Jbail_Lebanon_1351_t.jpgTruthDig.com
Dahr Jamail

“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
—Woodrow T. Wilson

“We rely on Hezbollah and these other countries which are helping us now because it’s all we have,” Abu Khalil, an unemployed construction worker injured by bomb shrapnel during last summer’s war in Lebanon told me. As we stood talking in the warm spring sun outside his largely destroyed village of Aita Ech Chaab, a few hundred yards from Lebanon’s southern border, he added, “And we rely on Hezbollah to protect us again from the next Israeli aggression, because our own government cannot and will not do that job.”

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Political Loyalties Being Rebuilt

Bloodied_and_torn_Koran_Israel_killed_the_father_of_the_Ridda_family_during_his_morning_prayer_in_A_1355_t.jpgInter Press Service

AITA ECH CHAAB — People in this southern Lebanese village are rebuilding their destroyed houses with renewed vigour. And, with renewed loyalties to a combination of Hezbollah, Qatar and Iran.

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