A person living over there is writing about it on her blog. She has a post titled “Some insight, perhaps” where she describes why it is hard for the people living in Southern Lebanon to just denounce Hezbollah and move on. Here is the current text from that post…
Some insight, perhaps…
It occurred to me that a lot of people may have no idea why the Shia in the south support the HA so strongly.
The HA, being far from stupid, spent years being the benefactors of the population of the south that was otherwise largely cut off from the rest of the country. They built homes for them, organised schooling, hospitalised the needy, brought them spiritual support… At the same time, the only thing those simple people (way too illiterate and monolinguistic to have access to many sources of information) ever saw from Israel were bombs falling on their heads and events such as the Qana massacre (for the unaware – a UN compound of the Fijian detachment full of Shia refugees was targeted and bombed some years ago, making the entire world reel).So exactly how do we explain to these people that the HA who fed, treated, schooled and sheltered them are the bad guys, and that Israel is not evil incarnate? As you can see, they’ve been told being bombed makes them heroes – and they believe it.
Brainwash is the new Black Plague.
UPDATE: At the request of the original author, in relation to her safety as a blogger from Beruit, and with an undefined political situation, I have removed some links. Feel free to contact me directly if you need further info.
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