Who Are Hezbollah and What is Their Role in the Middle East?

21st Century Wire says…
Perhaps one of the most enigmatic and ‘feared’ (by Israel & its US coalition allies) military and political entities in the world today, is Hezbollah. The following quote was taken from a review in The Middle East Quarterly of Amal Saad-Ghorayeb’s book ‘Hizbu’llah Politics and Religion’:
‘Most notably, Saad-Ghorayeb gives an exceptional perspective of Hizbullah’s world vision. In contradiction to the Sunni concept of Dar al-Harb (the abode of war) and Dar al-Islam (the abode of Islam), Hizbullah focuses on oppressors (mustakbirun) and oppressed (mustad’afun). The oppressed are not exclusively Muslims but rather ‘all those who are oppressed on earth,’ (28:5) socially, economically, politically, and culturally. According to Saad-Ghorayeb, these terms are ‘borrowed from Marxism and the Qur’an … infused with a sense of moral dualism and millennialism in its division of mankind into good and evil forces.’

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on NOVEMBER 19, 2017.