Looks like the Lebanese, especially the Shiites, now have a different opinion of Hezbollah.
Syrian Fighting Gives Hezbollah New but Diffuse Purpose
By BEN HUBBARDMAY 20, 2014
HERMEL, Lebanon For many months, Shiite communities across Lebanon lived in fear as car bombs tore through their neighborhoods, punishing Hezbollah and its supporters for sending fighters to aid President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war in neighboring Syria.
But Hezbollah succeeded on the Syrian battlefield in chasing rebels from the border towns where many of the attacks originated. The bombings have since stopped, leaving Lebanons Shiites grateful for Hezbollahs intervention and luring a new wave of aspiring young fighters to the groups training camps.
The situation here has changed 180 degrees, said Saad Hamade, a scion of one of largest clans here. The whole story is over for us.
Continue reading at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/world/middleeast/syrian-fighting-gives-hezboll
Syrian Fighting Gives Hezbollah New but Diffuse Purpose
By BEN HUBBARDMAY 20, 2014
HERMEL, Lebanon For many months, Shiite communities across Lebanon lived in fear as car bombs tore through their neighborhoods, punishing Hezbollah and its supporters for sending fighters to aid President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war in neighboring Syria.
But Hezbollah succeeded on the Syrian battlefield in chasing rebels from the border towns where many of the attacks originated. The bombings have since stopped, leaving Lebanons Shiites grateful for Hezbollahs intervention and luring a new wave of aspiring young fighters to the groups training camps.
The situation here has changed 180 degrees, said Saad Hamade, a scion of one of largest clans here. The whole story is over for us.
Continue reading at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/world/middleeast/syrian-fighting-gives-hezboll
