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...clatter of machine-gun fire and the thump of shells could be heard not just in the city but throughout a 30-mile crescent stretching from Jounieh in the north to the mountain district of Kharroub. In the suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese Army clashed with Shi'ite militiamen. In the hills east of the city, government soldiers fought forces loyal to Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt. At the southern tip of the Chouf Mountains, the Druze and the Christian Phalange killed each other. Only West Beirut and the airport, where the U.S. Marines are stationed, were spared direct attacks...
...resented for staying too long. In a wry allusion to the West Bank of the Jordan River, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 war, southern Lebanon has come to be known to some Israelis and Lebanese as the "North Bank." Says Mohammed Ghaddar, leader of the Shi'ite Muslim Amal militia in the region: "We thought the Israelis would be here for a few weeks and then would get out. Now that they show no signs of leaving, they are losing the sympathy and understanding of the people." That is putting it mildly. Three weeks ago, after...
...religious fervor behind the resistance to the Israeli occupation adds another dimension to the problem. The people of southern Lebanon are predominantly Shi'ite Muslims...
Says a young man in Hallousiyeh: "If the Israelis don't leave, we will shed our blood to get them out. Even the children of the village have come to hate them." Following the bombing of the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre on Nov. 4, a Shi'ite terrorist action in which 61 people were killed, the Israelis instituted stringent security precautions at the Awali River bridge. The result has been a horrendous traffic bottleneck at the bridge. Trucks, many of them carrying consumer goods between Sidon and Beirut, have sometimes had to wait two days or longer...
...this sense, the position of the Shi'ites is similar to that of Diaspora Jews, and both developed defense mechanisms against oppression. The Shi'ites got their "homeland" in the early 16th century, when the first (and still the main) Shi'ite state was founded--Persia, now called Iran. But the Muslims' dilemma remained, as has the Jews' dilemma in Israel; should one stand up for religious principles, or should one continue to dissimulate in the face of a government that is at least nominally devout. For Shi'its, the issue came to a head with the despotism...