{"id":1501,"date":"2006-08-17T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2006-08-17T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T08:20:08","slug":"2006-8-17-debate-among-lebanese-shia-about-hizbullah-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Debate among Lebanese Shia about Hizbullah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/middleeast\/articles\/2006\/08\/14\/essay_by_intellectual_spurs_debate_on_hezbollah_leaders\/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+World+News\">Interesting story<\/a> in the Boston Globe about a Shia intellectual who has sparked a storm with an essay denouncing Hizbullah. If anyone has the link to her original essay, please share.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here in Cairo, last night I walked past a car that had a poster of Hassan Nasrallah on its side window. I looked closer at the poster, which described Nasrallah as &#8220;the man who vanquished Israel,&#8221; I saw it was from the liberal-ish weekly Al Destour. Al Destour is edited by Ibrahim Eissa, one of the most vibrant voices against the Mubarak regime and a self-described liberal. Somehow all the paradox of why most Arabs cheered Hizbullah is there: even if people don&#8217;t like Hizbullah&#8217;s ideology, they&#8217;re always going to cheer for it when it is responding to attacks that tried to destroy an entire country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>Praktike has <a href=\"http:\/\/americanfootprints.com\/drupal\/node\/2764\">photos<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/middleeast\/articles\/2006\/08\/14\/essay_by_intellectual_spurs_debate_on_hezbollah_leaders\/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+World+News\">Interesting story<\/a> in the Boston Globe about a Shia intellectual who has sparked a storm with an essay denouncing Hizbullah. If anyone has the link to her original essay, please share.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, here in Cairo, last night I walked past a car that had a poster of Hassan Nasrallah on its side window. I looked closer at the poster, which described Nasrallah as &#8220;the man who vanquished Israel,&#8221; I saw it was from the liberal-ish weekly Al Destour. Al Destour is edited by Ibrahim Eissa, one of the most vibrant voices against the Mubarak regime and a self-described liberal. Somehow all the paradox of why most Arabs cheered Hizbullah is there: even if people don&#8217;t like Hizbullah&#8217;s ideology, they&#8217;re always going to cheer for it when it is responding to attacks that tried to destroy an entire country.<br \/>\n<strong>Update: <\/strong>Praktike has <a href=\"http:\/\/americanfootprints.com\/drupal\/node\/2764\">photos<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[30,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}