The Women of Hezbollah (Dir. Maher Abi-Samra)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>  >...Hezbollah, which is a perfectly
>>  >legitimate civilian institution...
>>  >
>  > >Seth
>  >
>>  Well that's certainly a new one...
>.
>Is it? Hezbollah runs candidates for offices. It operates social welfare
>agencies. Its military wing is virtually disbanded. It has a few guerrillas
>fighting against Israeli troops on a tiny patch of Lebonese land that Israel
>still illegally occupies.
>
>How is Hezbollah any less legitimate than the Israeli Likud, an outgrowth of
>the openly terrorst Lehi paramilitaries of the 30's and 40's?
>
>Seth

I haven't seen _The Women of Hezbollah_ (Dir. Maher Abi-Samra), but 
the description at <http://www.frif.com/new2001/hez.html> sounds 
interesting.
-- 
Yoshie

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