Hezbollah: A Short History

Justum Ad Bellum & Israel’s 2006 Attack on Lebanon: An Examination of Just War Principles

“…We were accepted with performed rice and flowers by the Shia in the South. It was our presence there that created Hezbollah (Dijxhoorn, 2017;Gleis, 2011;Norton, 2009)." A lot of has changed since then, and Hizbollah has become a resilient and effective guerrilla out-fit that create too many problems for the IDF and Israel.…”

“…Creating more enemies than you kill is self-defeating; making it politically and ideologically impossible to end a war and so is spreading new levels of anger and hatred to other countries and/or factions (Cordesman & Sullivan, 2007)." Professor Cordesman's analysis was also rightly reflected elsewhere including Iraq where the so-called firebrand Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr mobilised a large demonstration chanting "Death to Israel", and condemning the "Evil Triangle", believed to be in reference to the USA (and western supporters like UK), Israel, and Arab states that supported the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon (Norton, 2009). Anthony Cordesman sums up his perspective on the Israeli war on Lebanon as thus: "is more than a horrifying human tragedy; it is a brutal lesson in changing nature of modern war…a lesson that applies just as much to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on terrorism as it does to the fighting in Lebanon.…”

Socijalna politika (sigurnost) kao područje nacionalne sigurnosti: prilog raspravi o kritičkim sigurnosnim studijama

“…Politička platforma Amala uključivala je nacionalno jedinstvo te građansku, ekonomsku i socijalnu jednakost, a ne islamističku državu. Kolaps centralne države u građanskom ratu usmjerio je Amal i na pružanje socijalne pomoći širim društvenim slojevima što je Hezbolah preuzeo kao stratešku orijentaciju do danas (Norton, 2007.;DeVore i Stähli, 2015.;Alahga, 2011.a). Od trenutka nastanka, Hezbolah bitno kontrolira libanonske političke procese, inicijalno posredstvom vojnih djelovanja koji su bili praćeni socijalno-karitativnim angažmanom, a od završetka građanskog rata 1990. i potpisivanja Sporazuma iz Taifa i uključenjem u kon-stitucionalne političke procese (Alagha, 2011.).…”

The living archive of war in Rabih Mroué's Make Me Stop Smoking

“…In Lebanon, Hezbollah is the only group that has actually fought to protect Palestinians and resist Israeli intervention. As Augustus Norton (2007) writes, Hezbollah was the reason Israel finally withdrew from South Lebanon after 18 years' occupation. Hezbollah's motives have always been to support Palestinians and to change the social status of life for the Shi'a of Lebanon from that of second-class citizens.…”