Saturday, August 05, 2006

Arab disquiet over Hezbollah

Leave it to Junior to rekindle a 1500 years old feud, between, essentially, the Persians and the Arabs, Sunni and Shia.

What's next, Georgie? Catholics v. Protestants, or everybody v. Jews and Americans?

Arab disquiet over Hezbollah - World - theage.com.au:

THE faint echo of Israeli bombs exploding in the lower Bekaa Valley brings two fears to a Damascus University professor.

He said he recoiled at the destruction across the border, less than 16 kilometres from his village home. But deeper down, he worries that any Hezbollah triumph would come at the expense of his own Sunni branch of Islam.

'Since the Americans invaded Iraq, we have all become aware of the danger from the Shiites,' said the professor, who asked not to be identified because discussing sectarian rivalry is taboo in authoritarian Syria.

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