tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post347265487234151633..comments2024-01-18T11:30:45.737-05:00Comments on Les Politiques: The Hezbollah between USraeli sponsored anti-guerilla and national and regional dialoguesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-85819380486899778282007-04-16T09:55:00.000-04:002007-04-16T09:55:00.000-04:00Agreed, appreciate your critique of the article an...Agreed, appreciate your critique of the article and the crucial qualifications. The politics of naming and characterisation certainly matter. That passage epitomises the attempt to delegitimise the movement and falsely portray (reduce) it to simply an Islamist one, rather than a successful and highly organised resistance against Israel's belligerency. Thanks for the additional info and appreciateAnnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14669907426663593737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-83864075131868567842007-04-16T09:35:00.000-04:002007-04-16T09:35:00.000-04:00AnnThanks for the links. I am always angered at t...Ann<BR/>Thanks for the links. I am always angered at the reading of the NYT,. First they have this bad habit of askig warlord walid Jumblatt jis opinions on all Lebanese matters. Second Hassan Fattah contributed tio the report and Fattah is biased. And there is this distortion:<BR/>''Analysts say Sheik Nasrallah’s genius was to train hundreds of grass-roots fighters — school teachers and Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-31373623203710714622007-04-16T04:47:00.000-04:002007-04-16T04:47:00.000-04:00Indeed. Serious interviews and articles are few an...Indeed. Serious interviews and articles are few and far between in the Anglophone press. The NYT managed a <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/world/middleeast/07nasrallah.html?ex=1176868800&en=21e5e7b914752add&ei=5070" REL="nofollow">profile</A> of Nasrallah last August (also <A HREF="http://peoplesgeography.com/2006/08/07/nyt-nasrallah-profile/" REL="nofollow">here</A> Good point about Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14669907426663593737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-67218758987380284242007-04-14T12:23:00.000-04:002007-04-14T12:23:00.000-04:00Ann,Not all Islamist political movements are extre...Ann,<BR/>Not all Islamist political movements are extremists as defined by the Neocons and the west in general. I believe that Nasrallah is a moderate and what makes him a moderate is the Lebanese context and his two victories on Israel (something I have argued in my september article), the same context that makes others submissive and extremists at the same time (like Lebanese forces, Jumblatt Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-43445874853482488412007-04-14T11:50:00.000-04:002007-04-14T11:50:00.000-04:00Interesting interview, grateful for the translatio...Interesting interview, grateful for the translation. I will also read the September article you linked to with interest. Its refreshing to read a fair treatment of Nasrallah sans ideological blinkers of the neocon kind!Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14669907426663593737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-82379271862392601732007-04-11T15:54:00.000-04:002007-04-11T15:54:00.000-04:00Both secularism and desectarisation of Politics in...Both secularism and desectarisation of Politics in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are matters of vital necessity. Otherwise,there will always be a room for U.S-Israel to have the old Roman rule of divide and conquer played out in this oil doomed region!G.Garhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16573287809747571814noreply@blogger.com