Re: [Marxism] Re: [Three Way Fight blog] Defending My Enemy's Enemy

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/5/06, Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As the July 31 MERIP report "Hizballah: A Primer" indicates, the Islamic
> Republic of Iran neither runs Hezbollah, nor constitutes it's "political
> ideal." Rather, Hezbollah is an independent, home-grown and nationalist
> formation. One must ask: has Hezbollah DONE any of the things Lyons tries
> to slander them with by association with the Islamic Republic? One
> important point made in the MERIP piece is that Ayotollah Khameini
> constitutes the SPIRITUAL -- but not the POLITICAL guide for Hezbollah.
> And, as Lyons admits in his article, Hezbollah has "acknowledged"
> pluralism in Lebanon (actually it goes much further than that, according
> to the MERIP report). The MERIP report also points out that Hezbollah has
> fought privatization and the neo-liberal agenda in Lebanon.

Yes, but, in the wider world beyond the immaterial world of left-wing
sects whom we can safely ignore, what matters is money and weapons,
from the POV of those who want to see Hizballah destroyed:

"As noted, Hizballah officially follows Khamenei as the party's
marja', and has maintained a warm relationship with Iran dating to the
1980s, when Iran helped to train and arm the militia. Hizballah
consults with Iranian leaders, and receives an indeterminate amount of
economic aid. Iran has also continued military aid to the Islamic
Resistance, including some of the rockets in the militia's arsenal"
(Lara Deeb, "Hizballah: A Primer," 31 July 2006,
<http://www.merip.org/mero/mero073106.html>).

It is Tehran's financial and military aids to Hizballah that the Tel
Aviv-Washington axis is going after -- the aids that we can't deny.
I've yet to hear anything that makes sense from any leftist on this
question.
--
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
<http://mrzine.org>
<http://monthlyreview.org/>

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