What does the crisis in Lebanon teach us about Hezbollah? We have heard for many years from an array of journalists, scholars, and pundits that Hamas and Hezbollah are complicated social movements that employ violence in the service of their political goals, and that they are therefore susceptible to ...
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NOAH POLLAK: The Lesson of Lebanon. "Islamic supremacist groups, despite their claims to the contrary, cannot be integrated into states or democratic political systems."
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Commentary Magazine ^ | 5/9/08 | Noah Pollak
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The Hezbollah rampage in Lebanon that we are witnessing should make it obvious to any sentient observer that Hezbollah's claims to democratic political legitimacy have always been intended only to manipulate the credulous. Participation in politics requires the willingness to persuade your foes, to compromise, to stand down when you don't get your way. But there is no record of Hamas or Hezbollah ever observing such restrictions. More
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More - Commentary has " The lesson of Lebanon ": " What does the crisis in Lebanon teach us about Hezbollah? It teaches us the same lesson we learned from Hamas when it took Gaza: Islamic supremacist groups, despite their claims to the contrary, cannot be integrated into states or democratic political systems ."
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For a different take, read Noah Pollak's analysis (via Michael J. Totten , who has plenty of other excellent Lebanon links):
What does the crisis in Lebanon teach us about Hezbollah? It teaches us the same lesson we learned from Hamas when it took Gaza: Islamic supremacist groups, despite their claims to the contrary, cannot be integrated into states or democratic political systems.
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Noah Pollak at Commentary :
What does the crisis in Lebanon teach us about Hezbollah? It teaches us the same lesson we learned from Hamas when it took Gaza: Islamic supremacist groups, despite their claims to the contrary, cannot be integrated into states or democratic political systems...
..The one thing Hezbollah has lost this week is the credibility of its claims to being a Lebanese "resistance" movement. Hezbollah has always countered concerns about its military buildup with the promise that it would never turn its weapons inward.
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The developments in Lebanon are worrying, but not surprising. Although the Hezbollah gunmen have pulled back for now , it is only a matter of time until they mount a full-blown coup. Those pundits that claim that you can talk and negotiate with Hezbollah, and that they will not use their weapons against the Lebanese government, have been fooling themselves .
According to this analysis in the Jerusalem Post, the recent events are a blow to the US as well. According to Toameh,
"The lesson to be drawn from what happened in the Gaza Strip and Beirut is that whenever the US openly backs an Arab, he or she is immediately discredited on the Arab street.
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