Hezbollah
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Hezbollah (Arabic: [[[[حزب الله, meaning Party of God) is a political party and Islamic group that was formed in Lebanon in 1982. It was created to fight the Israeli Defense Forces who were in Lebanon until 2000. As of August 2006, Israeli forces are again in Lebanon. Hezbollah is a Shia group that is supported by Syria and Iran and hope to create a state like Iran in Lebanon. Some believe that they have ties with Al-Quaeda. Hezbollah recently kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. This led to a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and to the invasion of Lebanon by Israel.
Some countries see Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, others do not. Among those who consider it to be terrorist are the United States and Israel, among those who do not are the European Union and Russia. Lebanon sees Hizbollah as a legitimate resistance movement. This view is shared by Syria, Iran and a few other countries in the Arab World.
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[edit] External links, resources, and references
[edit] Official sites
[edit] UN resolutions regarding Lebanon
- UN Press Release SC/8181 UN, September 2, 2004
- Lebanon: Close Security Council vote backs free elections, urges foreign troop pullout UN, September 2, 2004
- UN vote due on Syria resolution BBC, September 2, 2004
- US draft resolution at UN demands respect for Lebanon's sovereignty AFP, September 2, 2004
- Wikisource:UN Security Council Resolution 1391
- Wikisource:UN Security Council Resolution 1496
- Wikisource:UN Security Council Resolution 1559
- Wikisource:UN Security Council Resolution 1583
[edit] United States Department of State
- Background Information on Foreign Terrorist Organizations, released by the Office of Counterterrorism, October 8, 1999.
[edit] Other links
- Video of Hezbollah Military Operation Youtube (Al-Manar, May 2000)
- The Hizbollah Program, originally February 16, 1985
- The Sound of War Massoud Derhally, Arabian Business, 23 July 2006
- Who are Hezbollah?
- UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- Hizbollah At Crossroads : From the Will of God to the Will of His People
- Lebanese Security and Hezbollah, Report by Anthony Cordesman at CSIS.
- Open Directory Project - Hizballah directory category
- Yahoo - Hezbollah directory category
- Hezbollah: Lebanon, Islamists, Council on Foreign Relations
- Hezbollah in Profile, Parliament of Australia (PDF version)
- The Electoral Program of Hezbullah, 1996
- Nass al-Risala al-Maftuha allati wajahaha Hizballah ila-l-Mustad'afin fi Lubnan wa-l-Alam Abridged translation of the official Hezbollah Program, declared in 1985" (on Israeli website).
- Rotten.com article on Hezbollah
- A Shia View of the Middle East Conflict
- Inside Hezbollah, short documentary and extensive information from Frontline/World on PBS.
- Radical Islam in Latin America Chris Zambelis, December 2 2005
- The Moral Logic of Hizbullah by Martin Kramer.
- Hizbullah: The Calculus of Jihad by Martin Kramer.
- In Search of Hezbollah, by Adam Shatz New York Review of Books, April 29, 2004
- Hezbollah in the Firing Line. Middle East Report, April 28, 2003
- Who are Hezbollah?, BBC News Online
- Hizbollah: Rebel without a cause?. Middle East Briefing N°7 by the International Crisis Group, 30 July 2003
- Timeline of Hezbollah Violence, by CAMERA.org
- Who Attacked Israel?, What is Hezbollah? HIR
