Hezbollah pays war victims

[WeedGremblin]

BEIRUT, 19 August 2006 â?? Hezbollah handed out bundles of cash yesterday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the groupâ??s support among the masses.

â??People already had faith in Hezbollah, this will strengthen their faith,â?� said Ayman Jaber, 27, with a wad of $12,000 in banknotes Hezbollah had given him.

Israeli and US officials have voiced concern that Hezbollah will entrench its popularity by moving fast to help people whose homes were destroyed or damaged in the 34-day conflict with Israel.

Hezbollah has not said where the funds are coming from to compensate people for an estimated 15,000 destroyed homes. The scheme appears likely to cost at least $150 million. The Lebanese government has yet to launch anything similar. â??Nobody helped us other than Hezbollah,â?� said Fayrouz Ali Jaber, 53, as she waited for the $12,000 which she said she would use to house her family of nine. â??The state hasnâ??t helped us, or looked out for us. It doesnâ??t even know us.â?� Her home was in Haret Hreik in Beirutâ??s southern suburbs. â??It was a deluxe flat, furnished with everything,â?� she said. â??Nothing survived.â?�

Al-Fadl Shalaq, head of the Council for Development and Reconstruction, said the devastation from the 34-day conflict exceeded that caused by Lebanonâ??s 1975-1990 civil war. He put the material loss at $3.6 billion.

Late last night, Israeli warplanes flew over Lebanonâ??s Bekaa Valley and the north of the country but did not launch an attack, a security source said. A Reuters reporter said military jets, helicopters and drones had circled over the area and had come under anti-aircraft fire but had not been hit and had not opened fire themselves.

Trying to bolster a five-day-old truce, Lebanese troops moved deeper into the south and about 600 deployed in Shebaa village, near the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms enclave.

The Lebanese Army has had no presence in the area since an Arab decision allowed Palestinian guerrillas to operate there nearly 40 years ago. Israelâ??s 1982 invasion expelled the Palestinians and Hezbollah took over the region after the Israeli military ended a 22-year occupation of the south in 2000.

The Shebaa Farms is a small patch of land claimed by Lebanon, but occupied by Israel since it captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 War. The United Nations deems the territory Syrian until such time as Syria cedes it to Lebanon.

On Thursday, the Lebanese Army began deploying a force that will eventually number 15,000 soldiers south of the Litani River, about 20 km from the border with Israel.

UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown yesterday made an urgent appeal for European countries to provide troops for a peacekeeping force. â??The particular appeal I want to make today is that Europe comes forward with troops for this first wave,â?� he told journalists.

While around half a dozen countries have offered troops, European powers expected to have provided key contributions have proven reluctant to give firm troop pledges for a 3,500-strong vanguard force due to be in place in 10 days. â??The next few days are going to be very challenging to make sure that we meet this commitment to 3,500 troops, or 7,000 boots on the ground in 10 days from now,â?� Malloch Brown added.

Italyâ??s government approved sending troops and the defense minister said his country might eventually lead the mission. Officials have said Italy might contribute up to 3,000 troops.

Malaysia, which has offered between 850 and 1,000 troops, said Israel should have no role in deciding which countries make up the expanded UN peacekeeping force. â??Weâ??re going to be on Lebanese territory... Weâ??re not going to be on Israeli territory,â?� said Malaysiaâ??s Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar on his return from Lebanon.

Malaysia holds chairmanship of the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, and does not recognize Israel. Syed Hamid was responding to reports that Israel did not want peacekeepers from nations not having diplomatic relations with it.

[graymatter]

Oh, come on now, the funds are coming from Iran...

[eg420ne]

Oh, come on now, the funds are coming from Iran...

AND!?! whats your point, or is that just heavy sarcasm i see here...:cool:

[Bong30]

Hezbullah is IRAN............ Iran Is paying these people off....

Yes EG believe it................


Iran had Hezbullah start shit..........to see what would happen

[Krogith]

BONG Hesbullah is Leb and Isreal sent troops into leb and Hesbullah caputured them. Them Isreal started bombing Leb. Hesbullah from day 1 Said it would trade troops for worngfully held prisoners. ISREAL STARTED THIS

[Bong30]

Krogith your Hate for BUsh Blinds your DUMB ass...............

Its like talking to a KID......a dumb kid that is

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The Hezbollah[1](Arabic: حزب الله‎ ḥizbu-llāh,[2] meaning “party of God”) is a Shia Islamist political party in Lebanon, comprising a militia and extensive front programs for social development.[3] Formed in 1982 to fight Israel's occupation of Southern Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War,[3] It was officially founded on February 16, 1985 when Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin declared the group's manifesto. [4] It originally sought to bring the Islamic Revolution to Lebanon,[5] and wanted to transform Lebanon's multi-confessional state into an Iranian-style Islamic state. According to a BBC analysis, "This idea was eventually abandoned and the party today is a well-structured political organisation with members of parliament".[6] It continues to call for the elimination of “the Zionist entity” (i.e. The State of Israel), the founding objective of the organization.[7] The current Secretary-General of Hezbollah is Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who has held the office since 1992.


Introduction
Hezbollah (a.k.a. Hizbollah, Hizballah) was formed to combat the Israeli occupation following the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and with the stated goal of eliminating Israel.[8] It was officially founded on the 16th of February, 1985 when Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin declared the group's manifesto. It follows a distinct version of Islamic Shia ideology developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.[9][7][5]Hezbollah is currently one of the two main organizations representing the Shia community, Lebanon's largest religious bloc, but the only militant one.[10] It is also a recognised political party in Lebanon,[11] currently taking just over 10% of the seats (14 out of 128) in the Parliament of Lebanon. The bloc it forms with others, the Resistance and Development Bloc, 27.3% (see Lebanese general election, 2005). Hezbollah also organises extensive social development programs which runs hospitals, news services, and educational facilities. Its Reconstruction Campaign ('Jihad al-Bina') is responsible for numerous economic and infrastructure development projects in Lebanon.[12] .
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Hezbollah and Israel have clashed since 1982 [6], Hezbollah is responsible for multiple kidnappings,[13][14][15] [16] murders,[17][18][19] [20] hijackings,[21] and bombings.[22][23][24][25] against Israel. There is a wide disagreement about how this organization and its violent acts should be characterized. Israel occupied part of Lebanon during a time when many of these attacks took place, and although Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 with UN verification, Hezbollah considers Israel to be in occupation of the Shebaa Farms which Israel captured from Syria in 1967. Additionally, Israel holds some Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails. Finally, Hezbollah and some of the Arab and Muslim world consider Israel an illegitimate state. For these reasons, many consider violent acts performed by the organization against civilians to be justified as acts of Jihad. Although some Arab states (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia) have condemned Hezbollah's actions saying vaguely that they harm Arab interests,[26] throughout most of the Arab and Muslim worlds Hezbollah is regarded as a legitimate resistance movement, resisting all of Palestine.[8] Some countries regard Hezbollah's violent acts to be terrorist attacks, and thus they consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization. The United States, Canada, Israel and the Netherlands consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization, while the United Kingdom and Australia consider only Hezbollah's external security organization to be a terrorist organization, thus making a distinction between the organization's terroist activities and its social activities. Russia,[27] the European Union,[28] and several other countries including the China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, among others, haven't characterized Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The European Union does not list Hezabollah or its constituent groups in its list of terrorist organizations, but does list Hezbollah's senior intelligence officer Imad Mugniyah;[29][30] making a distinction between the organization as a whole, and its senior members.


History
The neutrality of this section is disputed.
Please see the discussion on the talk page.

Main article: History of Hezbollah
Hezbollah was formed primarily to combat the Israeli occupation following the 1982 invasion of Lebanon[6][31] It was officially founded on February 16, 1985 when Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin declared the group's manifesto. The publication of the manifesto was timed to coincide with the anniversary of Ragheb Harb's death.[32]

Scholars differ as to when Hezbollah came to be a distinct entity. Some organizations list the official formation of the group as early as 1982 [33] whereas Diaz and Newman maintain that Hezbollah remained an amalgamation of various violent Shi’a extremists until as late as 1985.[34] Another version states that it was formed by supporters of Sheikh Ragheb Harb, a leader of the southern Shiite resistance killed by Israel in 1984.[35] Regardless of when the name came into official use, a number of Shi’a groups were slowly assimilated into the organization, such as Islamic Jihad, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth and the Revolutionary Justice Organization.[citation needed] These designations are considered to be synonymous with Hezbollah by the US,[36] Israel[9] and Canada.[37]

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Hezbollah's strength was enhanced by the dispatching of one thousand[38] to fifteen hundred[39] members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the financial backing of Iran. It became the main politico-military force among the Shi'a community in Lebanon and the main arm of what became known later as the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon.[38]

They have fought with Israel for more than twenty years and as a result tens of Hizbullah leaders and officials including the former Secretary-General,Seyyed Abbas al-Musawi have been assassinated by Israel.[40][35]


Ideology
Hezbollah follows a distinct version of Islamic Shi'a ideology (“Willayat Al-Faqih”) developed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.[9][8]
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Iranian Expediency Council Secretary and former commander of the Revolutionary Guards Mohsen Rezai said in August 2006, "Iran is a model and example for Hizbullah. The Iranian faith, tactics and experience are being put to practice in Lebanon... Hizbullah looks to Iran for tactics and moral [support], and we are proud that our experience [serves] other Muslim countries."[41][42]

Hezbollah initially aimed to transform Lebanon into an Islamic republic; there is some speculation that this goal has been abandoned[8][6] although doubts remain.[43] Nasrallah has been quoted as saying:

"We believe the requirement for an Islamic state is to have an overwhelming popular desire, and we're not talking about fifty percent plus one, but a large majority. And this is not available in Lebanon and probably never will be."[44]

Position on Israel
Hezbollah's founding primary aim was resistance against the occupation of Lebanon by Israel (1978-2000). From the inception of the organization to the present [7][5][45] [46][47] the elimination of the state of Israel has been Hezbollah's primary goal. Secretary-General Nasrallah’s has stated that “Israel is an illegal usurper entity, which is based on falsehood, massacres, and illusions.”[48], and considers that the elimination of Israel will bring peace in the middle east: "There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel."[49][50] In an interview with the Washington Post, Nasrallah said "I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful. That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.". [51]

Israel's occupation of the Shebaa Farms (along with the presence of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails) is often used as a pretext and stated as justification for the organization's continued hostilities against Israel even after Israel's verified withdrawl from Lebanon in 2000. Hezbollah's spokesperson Hassan Ezzedin, however, had this to say about the Farms: "If they go from Sheba'a, we will not stop fighting them. Our goal is to liberate the 1948 borders of Palestine...[Jews] can go back to Germany or wherever they came from;”[52]
In a 1999 interview, Nasrallah outlined the group’s three “minimal demand[s]: an [Israeli] withdrawal from South Lebanon and the Western Bqa’ Valley, a withdrawal from the Golan, and the return of the Palestinian refugees.”[48] An additional objective is the freeing of prisoners held in Israeli jails[53][54][8], some of whom have been imprisoned for eighteen years.[55] Hezbollah's desire for Israeli prisoners that could be exchanged with Israel led to its abduction of Israeli soldiers which triggered the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.[56]

After the successful conclusion of a "war of liberation", Hezbollah's spokesperson Hassan Ezzedin has stated that, "[Jews who lived in Palestine before 1948] will be allowed to live as a minority and they will be cared for by the Muslim majority".[57]

In contrast to the above, in recent interviews Nasrallah has answered questions concerning the establishment of a Palestinian state established alongside an Israeli state in a way which suggested that the organization no longer has the intent to destroy the state of Israel. . Hezbollah’s present leadership disclaims any interest in contesting Israel’s right to exist outside of disputed territories.[5] In a 2003 interview, Nasrallah stated that "at the end of the road no one can go to war on behalf of the Palestinians, even if that one is not in agreement with what the Palestinians agreed on."[58] "Of course, it would bother us that Jerusalem goes to Israel... let it happen. I would not say O.K. I would say nothing."[58] Similarly, in 2004, when asked whether he was prepared to live with a two-state settlement between Israel and Palestine, Nasrallah said he would not sabotage what is a Palestinian matter.[5] He also said that outside of Lebanon, Hezbollah will act only in a defensive manner towards Israeli forces, and that Hezbollah's missiles were acquired to deter attacks on Lebanon.[59]


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Position on Jews
Hassan Nasrallah has a history of making anti-Semitic statements (e.g.[B] “if they [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide”[60]). Despite Nasrallah's remarks, Hezbollah's official Web site marks a distinction between "Zionist ideology" and Judaism. It sees the rejection of Zionism as an attitude hold across "races, religions, and nationalities". It likens Zionism to "the concept of creating 'Israel' by the use of force and violence, by stealing the Arabs’ lands and killing Palestinians". "[O]pposing the Zionists ideology is not opposing setting a home for Jews".[61] Amal Saad-Ghorayeb a Shiite scholar and Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University, however, argues that Hezbollah is not anti-Zionist, but actually anti-Jewish. She quotes Hassan Nasrallah as saying, "If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli." Regarding the official public stance of the organization as a whole, she argues that while Hezbollah, "tries to mask its antiJudaism for public-relations reasons..a study of its language, spoken and written, reveals an underlying truth." In her book, "Hezbollah: Politics & Religion," she examines the, anti-Jewish roots of Hezbollah ideology, arguing that, "Hezbollah believes that Jews, by the nature of Judaism, possess fatal character flaws, and that their", "Koranic reading of Jewish history has led its leaders to believe that Jewish theology is evil.[62] "

In 2004 the Hezbollah-owned television station Al-Manar was banned in France on the grounds that it was inciting racial hatred. The court cited a 23 November broadcast in which a speaker accused Israel of deliberately disseminating AIDS in Arab nations.[63]


Women’s rights
In keeping with Lebanon’s generally secular and egalitarian culture, Hezbollah recognizes and promotes women’s rights (in the mold of the Western liberal tradition) somewhat more strongly than do other groups associated with Islamic jihad, or for that matter than does Iran, Hezbollah’s self-proclaimed “model and example”[41] (see Women in Muslim societies).[64]

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AND!?! whats your point, or is that just heavy sarcasm i see here...:cool:

The POINT is Hezbollah has zero resources if left to fend for themselves. They started as a grassroots movement in response to the first Israeli occupation. Iran liked that and adopted them. They should at least have balls enough to admit who their cash cow is.

[Krogith]

ARE you reading your own article?



""After the successful conclusion of a "war of liberation", Hezbollah's spokesperson Hassan Ezzedin has stated that, "[Jews who lived in Palestine before 1948] will be allowed to live as a minority and they will be cared for by the Muslim majority".[57]""

Isreal is being an agressor by #1 haveing occupation of southern leb after and sence 2002 ( Not To Mention all of there occupation of like 20 years befor that ) and #2 Sending the 2 troops in to leb spying in the 1st place!



Who are we to tell a libirated country that the group that liberated you and alot of your people suport should disarm.... EVEN IF THEY DID THE ARMS AND WHAT HAPPEND WOULD OF NOT CHANGED because there all the same people and there goal to stay A LIBERATED country free from ISREAL OCCUPATION Bong

[Ozarks]

ARE you reading your own article?



""After the successful conclusion of a "war of liberation", Hezbollah's spokesperson Hassan Ezzedin has stated that, "[Jews who lived in Palestine before 1948] will be allowed to live as a minority and they will be cared for by the Muslim majority".[57]""

Isreal is being an agressor by #1 haveing occupation of southern leb after and sence 2002 ( Not To Mention all of there occupation of like 20 years befor that ) and #2 Sending the 2 troops in to leb spying in the 1st place!



Who are we to tell a libirated country that the group that liberated you and alot of your people suport should disarm.... EVEN IF THEY DID THE ARMS AND WHAT HAPPEND WOULD OF NOT CHANGED because there all the same people and there goal to stay A LIBERATED country free from ISREAL OCCUPATION Bong


Hezbollah has never "liberated" anyone, the "war of Liberation" talked about is a euphemism use by Hezbollah for the war they are waging against Israel. Perhaps YOU should re-read the article.

Foucus on:


"After the successful conclusion "


Hezbolah is a standing army in a foreign country (Lebanon) bought and paid for by Iran. They do what Iran tells them to do when Iran tells them to do it.

[Krogith]

leb formed hesbullah to kick isreal out of leb occupation ISREAL has been the agressor for over 25 years even after 2002 they still occupyed part of south leb they were not supost to. Isreal sent in troops that got cought. Hesbullah was CREATED by the Leb people during a Isreal occupation.

[Myth1184]

BONG Hesbullah is Leb and Isreal sent troops into leb and Hesbullah caputured them. Them Isreal started bombing Leb. Hesbullah from day 1 Said it would trade troops for worngfully held prisoners. ISREAL STARTED THIS


The 2 troops that were Kidnapped were not in Lebanon...

and the prisoners Israel are holding arent there Wrongfully, they are criminals


Krog, I believe your just a spoiled kid raised by liberals, and you smoke too much pot.

[jamstigator]

AND, the trade they wanted was 2 Israeli soldiers for *hundreds* of their people. And the percentage of militants that Israel releases that turn around and begin killing Israelis again is huge. That was a bad trade, and nobody could blame Israel for turning it down. That'd be like someone with 2 dollars asking if you'd take that and in return give them 500 dollars. Uhhh...no thanks. I'm sure Israel would have traded 2 people for 2 people, but that exchange was never offered.

And Hezbullah is certainly funded by Iran. Who do you think procures their weapons and missiles, pays for their clothing and food and logistics and TV time, etc? These guys are militants, they're not working a 9-to-5 bagging at the grocery store and buying missiles with their paychecks. Without Iranian funding, they'd just be a gang of disheveled dudes wielding sticks and standing in a field looking angry.

[Bong30]

You tell him guys.............. right and a left, Jab and move, and stick and move.................