Beneath the School and Hospital

Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: The Evil of Hezbollah II: "31 Jul 2006 01:05 pm

This is a translation of a letter to the editor in the German leftwing daily, Die Tageszeitung. It's from a Lebanese Shiite, explaining Hezbollah's evil strategy:

I lived until 2002 in a small southern village near Mardshajund that is inhabited by a majority of Shias like me. After Israel left Lebanon, it did not take long for Hezbollah to take have its say in other towns. Received as successful resistance fighters and armed to the teeth, they stored rockets in bunkers in our town as well. The social work of the Party of God consisted in building a school and a residence over these bunkers! A local sheikh explained to me laughing that the Jews would lose in any event because the rockets would either be fired at them or if they attacked the rockets depots, they would be condemned by world opinion on account of the dead civilians. These people do not care about the Lebanese population, they use them as shields, and, once dead, as propaganda. As long as they continue existing there, there will be no tranquility and peace.

Let's hope an international force can get there soon."