The Spider's Web: Hizbollah Up Close and Personal
Filed under: Middle East
Our Manuela Paraipan, reporting from Beirut, has article on the website of the World Security Network entitled The Spider's Web: A Display of Hizbollah's War. Here's an excerpt:
I could not leave Beirut without having visited the Spider's Web exhibition at the museum opened by Hizbollah in Dahieh, the Hizbollah-controlled suburb of southern Beirut that commemorates its war efforts against the Israelis. This museum is there to give confidence to the Shias. As with any piece of propaganda, it is half true and half lie. It is true that Hizbollah did well as a guerrilla force and I am not discussing the legitimacy or the rightness of its acts but merely its capabilities on the ground, and it took Israel by surprise. On the other hand, Hizbollah cannot defeat Israel. Israel restrained itself this time. It did not want to solve the problem of Hizbollah for Lebanon, a country that considers Israel to be its enemy. They wanted to see Hizbollah pushed from the border and to a certain extent they succeeded in doing this.
Click the jump to view a gallery of photographs taken by Manuela inside the museum which could not be published WSN due to space considerations. If you have questions about the photographs (or the article), feel free to drop a comment and ask. Manuela will be stopping by when she has the chance to answer any you may have.
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