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Titolo: Il parere di Robert Fisk

PS:    Mica scemi, i Libanesi:
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http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk08152006.html
A Victory for Hizbollah, Syria and Iran
Israel Wasn't Hoping for This
By ROBERT FISK
Beirut.
You have to be down here with the Hizbollah amid this terrifying
destruction--way south of the Litani river, in the territory from which
Israel once vowed to expel them--to realise the nature of the past
month of war and of its enormous political significance to the Middle
East. Israel's mighty army has already retreated from the neighbouring
village of Ghandoutiya after losing 40 men in just over 36 hours of
fighting. It has not even managed to penetrate the smashed town of
Khiam where the Hizbollah were celebrating yesterday afternoon. In
Srifa, I stood with Hizbollah men looking at the empty roads to the
south and could see all the way to Israel and the settlement of Mizgav
Am on the other side of the frontier. This is not the way the war was
supposed to have ended for Israel.
Far from humiliating Iran and Syria--which was the Israeli-American
plan--these two supposedly pariah states have been left untouched and
the Hizbollah's reputation lionized across the Arab world. The
"opportunity" which President George Bush and his Secretary of State,
Condoleezza Rice, apparently saw in the Lebanon war has turned out to
be an opportunity for America's enemies to show the weakness of
Israel's army. Indeed, last night, scarcely any Israeli armor was to be
seen inside Lebanon--just one solitary tank could be glimpsed outside
Bint Jbeil and the Israelis had retreated even from the "safe"
Christian town of Marjayoun. It is now clear that the 30,000-strong
Israeli army reported to be racing north to the Litani river never
existed. In fact, it is unlikely that there were yesterday more than
1,000 Israeli soldiers left in all of southern Lebanon, although they
did become involved in two fire-fights during the morning, hours after
the UN-ceasefire went into effect.
Down the coast road from Beirut, meanwhile, came a massive exodus of
tens of thousands of Shia families, bedding piled on the roofs of their
cars , many of them sporting Hizbollah flags and pictures of Sayed
Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah's chairman, on their windscreens. At the
massive traffic jams around the broken motorway bridges and craters
which litter the landscape, the Hizbollah was even handing out yellow
and green "victory" flags, along with official notices urging parents
not to allow children to play with the thousands of unexploded bombs
that now lie across the landscape. At least one Lebanese child was
killed by unexploded ordnance and another 15 were wounded yesterday.
But to what are these people returning? Haj Ali Dakroub, a 42-year old
construction manager, lost part of his home in Israel's 1996
bombardment of Srifa. Now his entire house has been flattened. "What is
here that Israel should destroy all this?" he asked. "We don't deny
that the resistance was in Srifa. It was here before and it will be
here in the future. But in this house lived only my family. So why
would Israel bomb it?"
Well, I did happen to notice what appeared to be the casing of a
missile hanging from the balcony of a much-damaged house facing the
rubble of Ali Dakroub's home. And a group of Hizbollah militiamen, one
of them with a pistol tucked into his trousers, walked past us
nonchalantly and disappeared into an orchard. Was this, perhaps, where
they kept some of their rockets? Mr Dakroub wasn't saying.
"I am going to rebuild my home with my two sons," he insisted. "Israel
may come back in 10 years and destroy it all over again and then I'll
just rebuild it all over again. This was a Hizbollah victory. The
Israelis were able to defeat all the Arab countries in six days in 1967
but here they could not defeat the resistance in a month. These
resistance men would come out of the ground and shoot back. They are
still here."
"Come out of the ground" is an expression I have heard several times
these past four weeks and I am beginning to suspect that many of the
thousands of guerrillas did indeed shelter in caves and basements and
tunnels, only to emerge to fire their missiles or to use their rockets
on the Israeli army once it made the mistake of sending troops into
Lebanon on the ground.
And does anyone believe that the Hizbollah will submit to their own
disarmament by a new international force of UN and Lebanese troops
once--if--it arrives? There was a symbolic moment yesterday when
Lebanese soldiers already based in southern Lebanon joined Hizbollah
men in Srifa to clear the rubble of a house in which the bodies of an
entire family were believed buried. Lebanese Red Cross and civil
defense personnel--representatives of the civil power which is supposed
to claw back its sovereignty from the Hizbollah--joined in the search.
The mukhtar, who so blatantly regarded the Hizbollah as heroes, is also
a government representative. And at the entrance to this shattered
village still stands a poster of Nasrallah and the Iranian President
Ali Khamenei.
Far from driving the Hizbollah north across the Litani river, Israel
has entrenched them in their Lebanese villages as never before.
Robert Fisk is a reporter for The Independent and author of Pity the
Nation. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's collection, The
Politics of Anti-Semitism. Fisk's newest book is The Conquest of the
Middle East.

 By ROBERT FISK
Si sapeva che Fisk era un povero coglione. Con questo articolo ne
riconferma semplicemente lo status :)
-Stefano