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Among Militia's Patient Loyalists, Confidence and Belief in Victory

By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, August 3, 2006; Page A01

JWAYYA, Lebanon, Aug. 2 -- There were no cars in the winding streets of this southern Lebanese village. Not many people, either. The signs of life were the buzz of Israeli surveillance drones overhead and, below, a gaggle of Hezbollah loyalists, sitting in a small storefront along an abandoned street. There was a walkie-talkie, bottles of water and, according to the half-dozen or so men, patience.

"We are waiting," said Jamal Nasser, a burly man in civilian clothes. "We are here, and we're not going anywhere."

Three weeks into its war with Israel, Hezbollah has retained its presence in southern Lebanon, often the sole authority in devastated towns along the Israeli border. The militia is elusive, with few logistics, little hierarchy and less visibility. Even residents often say they don't know how the militiamen operate or are organized. Communication is by walkie-talkie, always in code, and sometimes messages are delivered by motorcycle. Weapons seem to be already in place across a terrain that fighters say they know intimately.

"On the ground, face to face, we're better fighters than the Israelis," said Hajj Abu Mohammed, a bearded, 44-year-old militiaman in the small village of Srifa, whose walkie-talkie crackled and cellphone rang with a Hezbollah anthem.

This rosy picture of these murderer's moral once more echoes the sad truth about fighting evil on one side and Liberal peaceniks on the other side. It is the same in Lebanon for Israel as it is in Iraq for America and the Coalition Forces. It is difficult to win a war when you are being hindered at every turn by whining do-gooders, meddlers, and international know-it-alls.

Anthony Shadid (did you notice how he calls them "militia" rather than what they truly are?) says it later in the article, paraphrasing a member of the terrorist Hizbollah:

Fighters and supporters suggest that time is their advantage in a war that most suspect won't have a conclusive end. In conversations in southern Lebanon, the militia's supporters seem most adamant in trying to deprive either Israel or the United States of political gains from the military campaign.

The members of Hizbollah are relying on the do-gooders of the Left, like France, Russia, and China, in the Useless Nations, as well as those here in America to force a cease fire in Lebanon before the Israelis can finish the job of crippling them. Groups like Hizbollah survive through the generosity and interference of pro-Arab, anti-Semitic, anti-American groups. Left to their own devices, they would be eliminated in a fairly short period of time, particularly if the U.N. was to actually do their job and stop the influx of weapons and supplies from Syria and Iran.

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