Lebanon: Ayatollah Fadlallah's Death and the Expansion of Iranian Hegemony

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ^ | July-August 2010 | Dr. Shimon Shapira

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Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah played a leading role in the increasing Islamic radicalization of Lebanese Shiites and laid the foundations for Hizbullah's ideology of violent struggle against the West and Israel. He supplied an organized doctrine for the mujahid who is ready to sacrifice his life. Yet he opposed the aspirations of Iran to establish an Islamic republic in Lebanon.

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Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah played a leading role in the increasing Islamic radicalization of Lebanese Shiites and laid the foundations for Hizbullah's ideology of violent struggle against the West and Israel. He supplied an organized doctrine for the mujahid who is ready to sacrifice his life. Yet he opposed the aspirations of Iran to establish an Islamic republic in Lebanon.

Why be officially in charge, when being an NGO under the auspices and imprimatur of the United Nations allows you to wage a low-grade war and build up massive firepower for the high-grade one? And still run the gov't.