revelations and revolutions.
seeking clarity.
hizbollah.
the so called ‘ayatollah’ ruhollah Khomeini was a revolutionary figure. not because he was there to take power from a totally corrupt regime of the shah, but because he represented a radical departure in so called shiite islam. his influence is really remarkable in that he and his successors have brought the republic of iran to a new profile in the entire muslim world. true.. it has come at a price but what was the alternative?
so what is the link between hizbollah and iran? it’s a question that opens many many more.
from this distance at least it seems that in 2006 hizbollah was the only fighting force to show againt the ‘israeli’ aggression that destroyed Beirut yet again.... and in a position to defeat the so called Israeli defence force (which has proved itself to be more an aggression force than defence force ….so often that the title has become propagandist.) …the hyper-trained and ultra well equipped ‘idf’ is no longer facing defenceless villagers and chickpea peasants with their women and children in the levant. that is a change.
the formation of hizbollah is connected with another Shiite group in Lebanon.. amal. in the early 1980s amal that had formed in the 1970s was interested in alliances with sunni and christian militias in countering the ‘idf.’ then...with the encouragement of Khomeini, people like ‘imad mughniyeh wanted to deal with Israel on their own terms . they had the backing of the ideology of the Iranian revolution....( subsequently they developed along lebanese nationalist lines.)
the fragile and essentially powerless edifice of Lebanese politics, factionalised and deep in civil war since 1975 began to change.
in 1983 came the formation of hizbollah (first called organization of the oppressed)initially as a guerrilla force .. their first move seems to have been the suicide bombings of the us embassy and then the marine base and French base in Beirut. apparently led by imad mughniyeh (who was assassinated in feb 2008 probably by mossad ). the action got rid of the un forces that occupied Beirut after the civil war and bloody exploits of ariel Sharon and his cohorts. (sabra shatila).. suicide action had been a technique developed by Khomeini in the war against iraq. iraq’s modern well equipped army had attacked iran in 1980 when its army was being purged and reorganized.. when iran was boycotted by the usa for the hostage crisis. (saddam thought he saw an opportunity.)
this particular Islamic jihad is a very bitter story. written in the blood of many martyrs to the cause as espoused by Khomeini.
from Iranian inspiration, hizbollah has achieved huge progress both as a guerrilla force and as a political party integrated into the fabric of Lebanon and now committed to pluralist democracy while at the same time committed to the removal of ‘israel’ from Palestine just as the ‘israelis’ are committed to the removal of the palestinians from what they claim to be their land. this is indeed a new force in the so called middle east.
the link with iran is underwritten by the religious fervour of revolutionary islam.
no point pretending it doesnt exist.
...tejasfu
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