Israel's Attack on Lebanon and Hezbollah

[nicky g]

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Hezbollah is nothing but a proxy force for Iran and Syria.

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I don't agree. I don;t see how it could be a proxy force for both a theocratic Shi'i Islamist regime and a secular Baathist regime at the same time, even if they are aligned on some international issues. Certainly it receives some support from both regimes. But Hizballah came into being as a resistance to the Israeli occupation of Lebanon, aided but by no means formed by the Iranians. It is ideologically close to Khomeinist thinking and it receives some help from the Syrians. But it is no mor a purely proxy force than the Falange was a purely proxy force for Israel; it has its own base, popularity, local demands etc.

Your analysis is interesting and perhaps partly correct. But by dumb I meant more unjustified/going to lead to bad things for little gain/I disapprove of it (stick that in your pipe and smoke it, that, Hizb Allah)