(POLL) Is Hezbollah's War Lebanon's War...Or Not?

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Saturday July 22, 2006 · 7:39 AM PDT

2006/07/22 · 07:39

There are lots interesting questions about the Israel-Lebanon war.

But there is one that needs to be clarified right now -- on the eve of a Israeli ground offensive into Lebanon.

Here's the question:

Is Hezbollah's war Lebanon's war?

On one hand we have comments like this one, from a previous diary of mine:

Of course we should support Israel, as we should support Palestine and Lebanon. We should not support Hezbollah, Hamas or Al Qaeda. The difference is that Israel, Palestine and Lebanon are actual nations. Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda are radical religious extremists that for some reason we insist on elevating in stature for these comparisons.

But on the other hand we also have this more convincing counter-argument, from a reader of Belgravia Dispatch:

In 2005, Lebanon held an election. Hizbullah and Amal formed a common voting bloc entitled the Resistance and Development Bloc. It won all 23 seats in the south, on a platform that opposed the disarmament of Hizbullah. I am not happy about this development, and am no fan of hizbullah, but there it is. I have seen no evidence (by you or otherwise) - or even seen it asserted - that the election does not accurately reflect sentiments among the Shia in southern Lebanon.

So which is it?

Is Hezbollah's war Lebanon's war...or not?

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