Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Hezbollah & Amal

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S. Lebanon Vote Seen Triumph for Resistance
BEIRUT, June 6, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Hezbollah and Amal
movement have secured a clean sweep in the second round of parliamentary
elections, a big win described by politicians and newspapers as a carte
blanche for Hezbollah to retain its resistance arms against Israel.
"The south...one voice to protect the resistance and its weapons," read the
front-page headline of As-Safir newspaper said Monday, June 6, Reuters
reported.
"In the most difficult climate amid pressure on Lebanon to hit at its
resistance, the south... provided a popular and political umbrella to
preserve the resistance and its arms."
The Al-Liwaa newspaper also noted that "the electoral machines of Hezbollah
and Amal succeeded in turning the elections into a referendum for national
choices, mainly the protection of the resistance."
Analysts said that Hezbollah's big win at the ballot box appeared certain to
bolster the group's determination to keep its weapons as a defense against
Israel and in the face US-led pressures to disarm.
"The aim is to defend Lebanon, not the weapons of the resistance. But to
defend Lebanon we must defend the weapons," Sheikh Naeem Kassem, deputy head
of Hezbollah, said Sunday, June 5.
"Today, southerners said this and the international community must listen."
Many Lebanese said Sunday that their voters were meant to protect the
resistance against foreign pressures.
US-sponsored UN resolution 1559 calls for the disarmament of all militias in
the country, a term Hezbollah maintains does not apply on resistance.
The group has vowed to fight back any attempt to forcibly take away its
weapons as long as Israel continues to occupy the Lebanese Shebaa Farms
border district and pose a threat to Lebanon's security.
Landslide Victory
The "Resistance, Liberation and Development" coalition of Hezbollah and Amal
won all 23 seats up for grabs in the south, according to official results
announced by Interior Minister Hassan Al-Sabaa Monday.
The Interior Ministry has said turnout among the 675,000 eligible voters was
45 percent, compared to only 23 percent in the first phase in the capital
Beirut.
Thousands of supporters waving yellow Hezbollah and green Amal flags drove
through villages and towns, honking their horns.
Fireworks exploded above central Beirut as the celebrations spilled over to
the capital on Sunday night.
Speaker of parliament and Amal's leader Nabih Berri on Sunday thanked the
people of southern Lebanon "for their confidence in the coalition and for
its continued victory, with all its candidates."
"This is not a steamroller victory... this is a victory that is like the
waves of the sea, it cannot subside before fulfilling its demands and
objectives in ending deprivation and deterring aggression," he said.
An Amal-Hizbullah alliance won a landslide in the south in the last general
election in 2000, only months after Hizbullah's heroic resistance operations
forced Israel to withdraw from south Lebanon in 2000 after 22 years of
occupation.
Hizbullah has 12 members in the present 128-seat assembly.
The first stage of the legislative polls was won by a coalition championed
by Saad Hariri, the son of slain former premier Rafiq Hariri whose
assassination in a February bomb blast unleashed a massive political
upheaval in Lebanon and is a major factor in the elections.
Central and eastern Lebanon will vote next Sunday in what promises to be the
most heated round of polling.
Lebanon has some three million eligible voters, 59 percent Muslim and 41
percent Christian, who will be contesting 128 parliamentary seats to be
shared equally by the Christian and Muslim communities.
The elections follow two political earthquakes in Lebanon - Hariri's
assassination and the withdrawal of Syrian troops after 29-year presence.

 S. Lebanon Vote Seen Triumph for Resistance
Un partito che controlla manu militari un collegio elettorale vince le 
elezioni in quel collegio. IYO a quanto la davano i proverbiali 
bookmakers londinesi la vittoria di Hizbullah?
Palmiro Pangloss
-- 
"But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera I'll 
kill you."
Clint Eastwood to Michael Moore
National Board of Review awards dinner at the Tavern on the Green, New 
York, NY 11.01.05

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0B34E4C7-C940-45BA-B3AE-E16270AE328D
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S. Lebanon Vote Seen Triumph for Resistance
BEIRUT, June 6, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Hezbollah and Amal
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Il povero Namib doveva essere molto interessato a questo visto che di
questo post ne ha mandate ben *SEI* copie in circa 1 ora e mezza! :)
-Stefano

elezioni in quel collegio.
Sarebbe interessante sapere se c'è qualche articolo/fonte che
"delegittima" il voto... che sò intimidazioni, soprusi, etc, etc

 bookmakers londinesi la vittoria di Hizbullah?
In altri luoghi, ben presidiati militarmente da uno o piů competitor (come
la Palestina), i risultati non sono stati cosě netti. Forse l'equiparazione
di qualsiasi (e sottolineo "qualsiasi") situazione MO al binomio
democrazia/tirannide č semplicistica... Hizb Allah č un'organizzazione
terroristica, ok. Ciň esclude che abbia un séguito popolare? Purtroppo (e
sottolineo "purtroppo") no. Shalom.
Namib

(come la Palestina),
La Palestina?  E dove si troverebbe questo stato? :)
*LOL*
-Stefano