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July 21, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008681

Hostage to Hizballah

[Wall Street Journal] Fouad Ajami - A cleric by the name of Hassan Nasrallah, at the helm of the Hizballah movement, handed Lebanon a calamity right as the summer tourist season had begun. Beirut had dug its way out of the rubble of a long war: Nasrallah plunged it into a new season of loss and ruin. Now, the man who triggered this crisis stands exposed as an Iranian proxy, doing the bidding of Tehran and Damascus. Nasrallah did not accurately judge the temper of his own country to begin with. No less a figure than the hereditary leader of the Druze community, Walid Jumblatt, was quick to break with Hizballah, and to read this crisis as it really is. "We had been trying for months," he said, "to spring our country out of the Syrian-Iranian trap, and here we are forcibly pushed into that trap again." The writer is director of the Middle East Studies Program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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