middle east

IN THIS HIGHLY READABLE BOOK,AUTHOR HALA JABER GOES BEHIND THE VEIL OF HEZBOLLAH TO TELL THE READER THAT NOT ALL WE READ IN THE WEST IS QUITE TRUE ABOUT THIS GROUP.HOSTAGES,SUICIDE BOMBERS ETC..ITS ALL IN HERE BUT SO ARE THE SCHOOLS,HOSPITALS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE THAT THE GROUP HAS BUILT UP OVER THE YEARS.SHE EXPLAINS CLEARLY AND OBJECTIVELY WHY ISRAEL,WHICH OCCUPIES 10% OF LEBANESE LAND,HAVE TAKEN MANY OF THEIR YOUNG SOLDIERS HOME IN BODY BAGS.I WOULD HOPE THAT THIS BOOK IS READ BY FUTURE PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINISTERS ASWELL AS THEIR INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENTS.VERY ENLIGHTENING!

This bookd paints hezbollah in a very benign manner. The author goes to great detail to explain how hezbollah helps the lebanese people. I did not know much about hezbollah before i red this book. I was interested in learning why they were among the world's most feared terrorist groups. This book did not do that for me. From the little i do know about this book it turns the tiger into a mouse. If you're interested in reading about how hezbollah really isnt that bad and Israel is the devil, Buy this book. If you're not keep searching for a good book on hezbollah, I've yet to find one.

i liked the book..it showed lots of facts..and as a person from south lebanon...i could tell whats right and whats wronge..especially reading a book about south lebanon and the war which went down there
this book showed the history of the shiite..althought it was short but so much constructive and it was the base for the story to come which is the emerging oh hizbollah...many pple have a dark view about hizbollah but the thing that they dont know is the conditions and the enviroment which gave the GO sign to hizbollah...and some of those conditions were mentioned in the book espcially the conditions of the shiite in the arabic world and especially lebanon which saw the creation of hizbollah..iam not gonna go into details...but read the book and ull know what iam talking about.