Hizballah's Christian Soldiers? - Time - The Diigo Meta page

• 10 Aug 07
  

  John MacLean
  • What could Lebanese Christians possibly have in common with Hizballah, the Islamist resistance movement? Perhaps it is the fact that Aoun's Christian supporters and Hizballah's rank and file are motivated by a shared animus towards Lebanon's political elite, a handful of families such as the Gemayel, whose progeny resurface in government after government. In fact, many of the supporters of the current government are civil war-era militia leaders, who accommodated themselves rather nicely to the years of Syrian occupation, but who have now emerged wearing business suits and talking U.S.-friendly language about democracy and independence.
• 08 Aug 07
  

  Barry Bowen

  lebanon politics

• 07 Aug 07
  

  Matthew Elliot

  "Aoun's popularity confounds any attempt to read Lebanon as a battlefield in a "clash of civilizations," because he and his party are openly allied with Hizballah, the Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim political party and anti-Israeli militia that leads the oppo

  Lebanon Hezbollah politics election Christian Shia Syria US instability

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