Hizbollah's Hypocrisy and Double Standards
Reading about Hezbollah and money laundering, I remembered an incident that took place a long time ago.
In 1985, I was buying a used car engine from a junkyard in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, when I had an interesting chat with the owner of the junkyard. He was a Shiite who supports Hezbollah.
While I was waiting for the engine to be loaded in my trunk, we sipped coffee and chatted aimlessly. One of the neighbors walked by and greeted us, and sat down for coffee. Then that neighbor's son was walking through. He had a large impressive beard. My father asked about the young man who had just walked by. His father just responded: "He works in terrorism."
Even though, n 1985, the word did not carry the full meaning it has today, we were shocked with the bluntness of that statement.
Seeing our jaws droop, the Shiite junk merchant added: "Suits the West and America well...they send us Hollywood stuff and pornography, we sell them hashish and deal with them through terrorism..etc."
My father protested:"So, you say it is OK to sell people Hashish!!!"
"Only to the West," responded the Shiite merchant.
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