HEZBOLLAH A HISTORY OF THE PARTY OF GOD pdf download

Hezbollah A History of The Party of God by Dominique Avon and Anais-Trissa Khatchadourian Translated by Jane Marie Todd

HEZBOLLAH A HISTORY OF THE PARTY OF GOD

From the Book

The “Open Letter” from the Hezbollah is a founding text, the only official document in nearly twenty-five years.

It was delivered publicly in February 1985, a month after the announcement that Israel would withdraw its troops to a so-called security zone in Lebanon.

Augustus Richard Norton published the letter and translated it into English, 3 and a partial French translation appeared in Les Cahiers de I’Orient.

 Another section later became available online, thanks to Feki Masri.

 Freely accessible on an Arabic website (www.hassannasrallah.info) two years ago, it has since disappeared, along with the site itself. We produced our translation in the summer of 2007.

 It was our wish to place the letter within the context in which it was uttered and to determine how the terms of that doctrine have survived for a generation, weathering profound changes.

The interest of the doctrine lies in the timelessness of its key elements.

Since its publication, no other document has invalidated its three pillars: first, a polarized view of the world that pits “oppressors” against “oppressed,” leading to a path that is neither capitalist nor socialist; second, a