Franklin Lamb: Hezbollah Eases Up and Beirut Opens Its Shutters | Counter Punch
Posted by Faiz on May 11th, 2008
The presidentless government of Lebanon has reversed the anti-Hezbollah orders it decreed a few days ago, and true to their word, the Hezbollah have stepped down.
“After 15 years of civil war, 15 of diluted sovereignty, and three of limbo, the Lebanese deserve at last to have a level of politics commensurate with their talents and energies. If Nasrallah is the man who makes this happen, history will judge his actions to have been a revolution, not a coup, and a long-overdue one at that.”
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