Hezbollah Leads Work in Rebuilding Lebanon

Captain1 · August 17, 2006, 3:35am

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kuchh bhee keh lo bhai, kuchh log kabhi nahi manayn gai :)

Reza_Pahlavi · August 17, 2006, 6:13am

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Ma Mooli:

As soon as ceasefire was announced, Hezbollah members were back at the scenes mending water pipes and clearing debris from roads. They’ve started on the reconstruction project from today as the government will take a while to get moving. But Seyed Nasrallah has promised cash for rent, food and new furniture for im guessing over 15000 familes whose houses have been damaged. And whatever the seyeds says, he delivers. This is leadership in its truest form and this why they love him :k:
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Hezbollah Leads Work to Rebuild, Gaining Stature
By JOHN KIFNER**

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 15 — As stunned Lebanese returned Tuesday over broken roads to shattered apartments in the south, it increasingly seemed that the beneficiary of the destruction was most likely to be Hezbollah.

A major reason — in addition to its hard-won reputation as the only Arab force that fought Israel to a standstill — is that it is already dominating the efforts to rebuild with a torrent of money from oil-rich Iran.

Nehme Y. Tohme, a member of Parliament from the anti-Syrian reform bloc and the country’s minister for the displaced, said he had been told by Hezbollah officials that when the shooting stopped, Iran would provide Hezbollah with an “unlimited budget” for reconstruction.

In his victory speech on Monday night, Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, offered money for “decent and suitable furniture” and a year’s rent on a house to any Lebanese who lost his home in the month-long war.

“Completing the victory,” he said, “can come with reconstruction.”

On Tuesday, Israel began to pull many of its reserve troops out of southern Lebanon, and its military chief of staff said all of the soldiers could be back across the border within 10 days. Lebanese soldiers are expected to begin moving in a couple of days, supported by the first of 15,000 foreign troops.

While the Israelis began their withdrawal, hundreds of Hezbollah members spread over dozens of villages across southern Lebanon began cleaning, organizing and surveying damage. Men on bulldozers were busy cutting lanes through giant piles of rubble. Roads blocked with the remnants of buildings are now, just a day after a cease-fire began, fully passable.

In Sreifa, a Hezbollah official said the group would offer an initial $10,000 to residents to help pay for the year of rent, to buy new furniture and to help feed families.

In Taibe, a town of fighting so heavy that large chunks were missing from walls and buildings where they had been sprayed with bullets, the Audi family stood with two Hezbollah volunteers, looking woefully at their windowless, bullet- and shrapnel-torn house.

In Bint Jbail, Hezbollah ambulances — large, new cars with flashing lights on the top — ferried bodies of fighters to graves out of mountains of rubble.

Hezbollah’s reputation as an efficient grass-roots social service network — as opposed to the Lebanese government, regarded by many here as sleek men in suits doing well — was in evidence everywhere. Young men with walkie-talkies and clipboards were in the battered Shiite neighborhoods on the southern edge of Bint Jbail, taking notes on the extent of the damage.

“Hezbollah’s strength,” said Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a professor at the Lebanese American University here, who has written extensively about the organization, in large part derives from “the gross vacuum left by the state.”

Hezbollah was not, she said, a state within a state, but rather “a state within a nonstate, actually.”

Sheik Nasrallah said in his speech that “the brothers in the towns and villages will turn to those whose homes are badly damaged and help rebuild them.

“Today is the day to keep up our promises,” he said. “All our brothers will be in your service starting tomorrow.”

Some southern towns were so damaged that on Tuesday residents had not yet begun to return. A fighter for the Amal movement, another Shiite militia group, said he had been told that Hezbollah members would begin to catalog damages in his town, Kafr Kila, on the Israeli border.

Hezbollah men also traveled door to door checking on residents and asking them what help they needed.

Although Hezbollah is a Shiite organization, Sheik Nasrallah’s message resounded even with a Sunni Muslim, Ghaleb Jazi, 40, who works at the oil storage plant at Jiyeh, 15 miles south of Beirut. It was bombed by the Israelis and spewed pollution northward into the Mediterranean.

“The government may do some work on bridges and roads, but when it comes to rebuilding houses, Hezbollah will have a big role to play,” he said. “Nasrallah said yesterday he would rebuild, and he will come through.”

Sheik Nasrallah’s speech was interpreted by some as a kind of watershed in Lebanese politics, establishing his group on an equal footing with the official government.

“It was a coup d’état,” said Jad al-Akjaoui, a political analyst aligned with the democratic reform bloc. He was among the organizers of the anti-Syrian demonstrations after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri two years ago that led to international pressure to rid Lebanon of 15 years of Syrian control.

Rami G. Khouri, a columnist for The Daily Star in Beirut, wrote that Sheik Nasrallah “seemed to take on the veneer of a national leader rather than the head of one group in Lebanon’s rich mosaic of political parties.”

“In tone and content, his remarks seemed more like those of a president or a prime minister should be making while addressing the nation after a terrible month of destruction and human suffering,” Mr. Khouri wrote. “His prominence is one of the important political repercussions of this war.”

Defense Minister Elias Murr said Tuesday that the government would not seek to disarm Hezbollah.

“The army is not going to the south to strip the Hezbollah of its weapons and do the work that Israel did not,” he said, showing just how difficult reining in the militia will most likely be in the coming weeks and months. He added that “the resistance,” meaning Hezbollah, had been cooperating with the government and there was no need to confront it.

Sheik Nasrallah sounded much like a governor responding to a disaster when he said, “So far, the initial count available to us on completely demolished houses exceeds 15,000 residential units.

“We cannot of course wait for the government and its heavy vehicles and machinery because they could be a while,” he said. He also cautioned, “No one should raise prices due to a surge in demand.”

Support for Hezbollah was likely to become stronger, Professor Saad-Ghorayeb said, because of the weakness of the central government.

“Hezbollah has two pillars of support,” she said, “the resistance and the social services. What this war has illustrated is that it is best at both.

Referring to Shiek Nasrallah, she said: “He tells the people, ‘Don’t worry, we’re going to protect you. And we’re going to reconstruct. This has happened before. We will deliver.’ ”

Hassan M. Fattah contributed reporting from Sreifa, Lebanon, for this article, Sabrina Tavernise from Taibe and Robert F. Worth from Jiyeh.

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060816/ZNYT/608160373/1011&sectioncat=NEWS

Superb. :k:

As we can see this news is further burning up the supporters of DEFEATED Israel.

Reza_Pahlavi · August 17, 2006, 6:31am

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That person also kept telling us that no one would come forward to help rebuild Lebanon devestated by the child-murdering Israeli army. Well hey guess what? HEZBOLLAH has set the lead in the rebuilding work, and the USA want to follow them in this!

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-usmideast17aug17,1,7685307.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true

U.S. Hopes to Rival Hezbollah With Rebuilding Effort

Pro- defeated Israel supporters must be devestated.

Xcom_Cheetah · August 17, 2006, 8:23am

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Come on, don't ask him tough questions... questions which even their president can't answer.. :)(although he also can't answer grade 1 question:D)... he can only **Regurgitated **what the propoganda machine tells him..

abbasali1985:

His group kidnapped Israeli soldiers in retalliation for the 100s of doctors and politicians that Israel has kidnapped from Lebanon and Palestine. To this, Israel claimed it had a right to "defend itself"... So by defending itself, it destroyed the airstrip at Beirut International Airport, followed the next day by airstrikes on Southern Beirut.

To this, Hezbollah began launching rockets into Northern Israel.

Who started the war? If the war was started by the 'kidnapping' , then it was surely Israel that started the war because of their numerous kidnappings of innocent civilians.

If the war began by a large scale offensive, then it was surely Israel once again because they bombed Beirut's airport and blocked the seaport, shutting down the country.

A superior army, you say? Such a superior army infact, that they had indestructable Merkava tanks. Tanks that could withstand anti-tank missiles. This is why we saw footage of burning Merkava's. This is why we never saw 30 000 troops ever reach the Litani River. This is why the IDF's elite squadron carried "daring raids" by kidnapping a Grocer by the name of "Dib Nasrallah".

If Israel is seriously so superior, why were they unable to meet their objective of "eradicating, wiping out, and eliminating" Hezbollah "for good"? Only after they realised that they were getting embarassed and shafted, did they take the diplomatic approach.

Of course it was Hezbollah fighters that went and bombarded and crippled the Industrial sector of Beirut. Tell me why the IAF air raids specifically targetted milk and plastic factories in Beirut? Tell me why they targetted the business sector in Beirut and Tyre? Is this what was the consequences of Hezbollah?

If Israel is infact such an angelic force, why would they bother carrying out attacks on Christian and Sunni businesses and towns that had no affiliation with the Shia's and Hezbollah? Was their aim not to elimiate Hezbollah? Why then, did they have to cripple the Lebanese economy? How would this meet their objective, other than by using it as propoganda post-war to say that it was the cause of Hezbollah?

And "mixing" his illegal militia within the civilian population? Did you know that in recent times, only the IDF has been tried in international war crimes courts for actually using Palestinians as human shields?

At first Israel justified its Qana massacre by saying that Hezbollah were hiding amongst civilians and had missiles in basements... when in fact there were families hiding in the basement of the Qana apartment.

Then later on, when Israel was getting thoroughly humiliated on an international level, they claimed that Hezbollah had dug 'underground' tunnels which is why there were impossible to target.

So which one is it?

Which leader should I admire? The monkey-looking AmeriKKKan leader that lied to his people to go to war in Iraq, or the lovely Israeli leader who, after winning seats, declared that he would bring much more painful repurcussions to his 'enemies' than his predecessor (Sharon)?

What about when the U.S. sends millions of dollars for reconstruction to Israel to futher THEIR cause? So first you have an issue with Iran arming Hezbollah, which I can understand somewhat-- but now that they are funding them for reconstruction, you STILL look at the hidden agenda behind it?

Get a grip on life. There is a hidden agenda behind everything. The U.S. is in Afghanistan because of the massive narcotic industry (second biggest import after oil), and in Iraq for obvious reasons.

underthedome · August 17, 2006, 1:55pm

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Wow. This is "I'll get 72 virgins If I blow myself up in a pizza parler" speak.

Does anyone expect any rational discussion from someone with such beliefs? This poster believes Hezbullah is "The party of God". Honestly, this is off the deep end, this poster believes gods hand is controlling them. The guys who slammed jets into buildings had the same mentality.

Ma_Mooli · August 17, 2006, 1:57pm

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Next.

Ma_Mooli · August 17, 2006, 2:14pm

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whether the bar is high or low, we’ll celeberate each victory with a ticker tape parade and a mexican wave if we have to. after all its the little things in life you gotta appreciate.

Why? You think those living over there, are gonna be misinformed about Hezbollah? mate theres more chance of me being misinformed then those living amongst hezbullah, they have first hand observation, experience, do you think they cant judge their enemies from their friends? i suppose from your POV they need access to something like cnn news to get the unbiased account?

They know pretty well hezbullah did not bomb their houses, and they also know that despite the fact that they’re not responsible, they are helping them rebuild those very houses israel knocked down. It is Israel’s job to compensate, yet hezbullah are doing it for them. Theres a reaon why enjoys so much support, more so than the government, and more so now than pre-war. and for you guys to ignore that is simply ridiculous.

:halo: at semi-reasonable.

Not if Hezbullah has anything to do with it. I have always had complete faith in their leadership and i believe they are on morally right in this matter.

Seminole · August 17, 2006, 2:15pm

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It's just as naive and arrogant to say Israel has been the Party of G*o*d since they have demonstrated dominance over their bigger, non-Jewish neighbors that have been trying to defeat her for decades.

Ma_Mooli · August 17, 2006, 2:22pm

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No i have my reasons. its got nothing to do with dominance or size but more to with just/unjust, moral and immoral factor.

underthedome · August 17, 2006, 2:24pm

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Why did god kill those children with his Katyusha rockets in Nazareth?

Ma_Mooli · August 17, 2006, 2:26pm

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interesting question. perhaps you should ask God that?

underthedome · August 17, 2006, 2:35pm

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Since you believed Hezbullah is the "Party of God" I thought you might have some insight, no?

Ma_Mooli · August 17, 2006, 2:50pm

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yea i have my insights alrite, but jeez im no Angel Gabriel, despite what you may think

underthedome · August 17, 2006, 2:55pm

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Why do you consider Hezbullah to be "God's Party"?

Seminole · August 17, 2006, 3:07pm

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Well if that's the case, why has God been rewarding the wrong group?

I still don't see how a militia armed by the unGodly-like government of Iran that fires thousands of rockets into civilian areas has some moral high ground in your opinion?

Ohioguy · August 17, 2006, 3:50pm

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I just love the "Party of God" who launch 4000 Kaytusha rockets at a civilian population with virtually no aim, and a very high likelyhood that those rockets kill women and children. Every one of those rockets was a war crime, even though everybody seems just fine with it. A monsterous double standard at work here. Not a single Muslim has spoken out against this intentional civilian bombardment.

Let's face it, it is a victory from God because they are Muslims and Ma is a Muslim. And you guys accuse us of a war on Islam?

Seminole · August 17, 2006, 3:56pm

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I guess since their weaponry is inferior and unable to do the damage intended, they get a pass.

You ought to know by now OG... it is one ummah that needs to unite as one entity to ensure their superior system, religion and righteousness is implemented around the globe.

A Muslim can do no wrong. The lone exception are the rulers of Muslim countries and that is so they can be the scapegoats to explain why the ummah is what and where it is today.

Ohioguy · August 17, 2006, 4:01pm

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And they are really Zombies schilling for the US and the Zionists with utterly no free will, so that is excused.....

The Muslims world is so desperately in need of Heros, that Warlord/Clerics will have to do..... Pity.

mawarid · August 17, 2006, 4:06pm

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100 times better than the civilised neocons who have launched a "crusade" and have killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in the name of war on terror when in reality it is a war of terror and war on Islam. Millions sheepishly saying amen to their every move. Pathetic.

ravage · August 17, 2006, 4:08pm

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Thats because nobody except you would buy the legalistic crap in the face of concrete evidence of one side’s brutal killing of civilians and declaredly targetting civilian infrastructure, and another’s retaliation.

You are decietful when you suggest that katyusha rockets have a “very high likelihood” of killing women and children. That statement would be true if there were infact anything close to 4000 women and children killed for the 4000 rockets. Fact is Katyusha rockets have demonstrably a very low likelihood of killing ANYONE and therefore, unless women and children arent humans, it would follow that Katyusha rockets have a very low likelihood of killing women and children.

On the other hand, given the outcome of this war and numbers of civilians demonstrably killed by Israel’s “targeted bombing”, its clear that Israeli choice of firepower has a very high likelihood of killing women and children and civilians in general.

Stop lying and siezing the higher moral ground at the same time.