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  • Extracto de un artículo de Robert Pape en The New York Times: "Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Hezbollah is principally neither a political party nor an Islamist militia. It is a broad movement that evolved in reaction to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in June 1982. In terms of structure and hierarchy, it is less comparable to, say, a religious cult like the Taliban than to the multidimensional American civil-rights movement of the 1960’s.
    In writing my book on suicide attackers, I had researchers scour Lebanese sources to collect martyr videos, pictures and testimonials and the biographies of the Hezbollah bombers. Of the 41, only eight were Islamic fundamentalists. Twenty-seven were from leftist political groups like the Lebanese Communist Party and the Arab Socialist Union. Three were Christians, including a female high-school teacher with a college degree. All were born in Lebanon.
    What these suicide attackers — and their heirs today — shared was not a religious or political ideology but simply a commitment to resisting a foreign occupation. Nearly two decades of Israeli military presence did not root out Hezbollah. The only thing that has proven to end suicide attacks, in Lebanon and elsewhere, is withdrawal by the occupying force".


El día 12 se ha convocado en Beirut a los miembros de diferentes organizaciones sociales y humanitarias, y a todos aquellos que quieran sumarse a título individual, para formar un convoy que se desplazará hasta el Sur como parte de un movimiento de resistencia civil pacífica: Will Israel bomb all of us?

1 comentario

jclavijo -

Muy interesante el enlace de Pape en NYT. Es toda una deconstrucción de algunos pasajes ciertamente maniqueos que uno encuentra en blogs y otros artículos.
Saludos!