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This is a piece about what Hezbollah thinks about |srael, American involvement in the region and what the future holds.
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18 responses // Hezbollah Youth Leaders

  • Wow. Thanks to Adam for this really incredible piece. I feel like there are not many news sources left in the U.S. where you can hear the truth instead of propoganda- Current is definitely proving to be one of the few real media outlets. Thanks to Current for leaving this on the web, as I don't have access yet to the t.v. station, and thanks again to Adam for the wake-up call for all of us.
    MissyG
  • Glad to see this is on air. Very professional, informative and timely. Great indie journalism!
    MelodyProductions
  • Adam - this is an excellent piece! It's a great example of VC2...thank you for this perspective.
    suemyra
  • These guys sounded much more moderate than the ones with the guns. There ARE terrorists in Beirut, but you talked to students at the American University - easy access at the edge of the debate. This piece is more about American politics - bashing Bush - than explaining what's really going on - examine your own prejudices before you ask us to open our eyes.
    yesitspete
  • Wonderful piece if you hate Israel and America. The student says "They don't(Israel or America) want the peace. It's not us. They just want to keep the war on." Have any of you that see this, asked yourselves, what is this head full of mush talking about? Israel, yes, has all the guns, but they choose to live in peace. History and facts show, they do not fire rockets randomly into civilian homes. The Israelis do not strap bombs to themselves and explode them in pizzarias with the intention of killing innocent children. Adam, with this biased piece, has succeeded in establishing the perception of moral equivalence of the Israelis and the terrorist Hezbollahs. He would be hired quickly at CNN.
    watcher
  • It's great to get this perspective. Thank you.
    stapert
  • I was absolutely disgusted by the piece of propoganda. Hey Current, why don't you just give Osama Bin Laden a Pod channels while you're at it? I actually saw this on air and was so sickened. Don't we as Americans feel any sense of responsible reporting???? Giving light to "Hezbollah Youth" is like giving air time to Hitler Youth. So disgusted!!! Way to go Adam, NOT.
    revolve616
  • While it was a well produced piece, I do agree with watcher. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. They have no problem killing innocents, simply because they are Jewish (do I sense some Nazi similarities?). And if anyone thinks that Israel's tactics are in any way similar to this, get your head out of the ground. I hardly call a group of people that don't think twice about strapping bombs to their chests a civilized political movement. And have we forgotten the fact that Hezbollah was deemed responsible for the deaths of 241 U.S. soldiers in a 1983 suicide bombing?

    Hearing these two men talk was sickening, and I certainly do not need their advice on who to elect President.
    Path87
  • Bravo! You will never see this on the main stream media.

    Thank you Adam.
    spooky
  • Well done Adam, and Current for airing this very important perspective. Seeing how some viewers are reacting to this documentary online, it seems to me that these students are correct in saying that many Americans now have a skewed perceptions about the middle east and the people living there. This documentary did not suggested to me a defense of Hezbollah’s actions against Israelis. It does however question how we as a nation have decided to use the label “terrorist”. Refusing to engage with this perspective is refusing to deal with the reality of how we (and our nation’s support of Israeli military policy) are viewed abroad. If we cannot even open our minds to this kind of dialogue, we cannot pretend to be trying to build peace in the region. I really hope that this documentary reaches as many Americans as possible.
    cdamlamian
  • Dude - open your mind to screaming bloodied children in the aftermath of the action of some suicide bomber focused on the 72 virigins he thinks he will be meeting. Oh, I'm sorry. If only someone had dialogued him....
    Sir the Israelis are not trying to build peace. They are defending themselves from a people that simply wants them dead. The Hezbollahs do not want a 'dialogue'. They want death to all Israel, and us. I hope Israel kills every last Hezbollah crazy 'freedom fighter'. Only THEN can they live in relative peace.
    watcher
  • Good piece. I would have liked to hear their views concerning Hezbollah rocket and suicide bomber attacks on Israeli civilians.
    Redjack
  • FROM HEZBOLLAH'S CHARTER
    The Necessity for the Destruction of Israel
    We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve. This enemy is the greatest danger to our future generations and to the destiny of our lands, particularly as it glorifies the ideas of settlement and expansion, initiated in Palestine, and yearning outward to the extension of the Great Israel, from the Euphrates to the Nile.

    Our primary assumption in our fight against Israel states that the Zionist entity is aggressive from its inception, and built on lands wrested from their owners, at the expense of the rights of the Muslim people. Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease fire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated.
    revolve616
  • Your neighbor's son hates you and your family. He wants to kill you!
    You go after him; attacking his house, in the process accidentally kill the younger sister and a brother while destroying parts of the house. After a few hours you finally kill your enemy... But the whole neighborhood saw what happened. Do you think the rest of the family and the people in your neighborhood will forget it all in a few days? What do you think will happen next?? Status-quo squared…(just trying to show Israel's lack of vision)

    About the piece: These guys are right. When changing channels even from BBC to CNN, I can definetely tell the filtering. Starting with the news titles a little bid on the content and definetely in the enphasis and commentators and guests. It is obvious that the American School in Beirut has high regards for the USA. It is sad that even they can tell how badly informed we are. Imagine a more hard-core arab... Imagine what their media shows...
    paravico
  • I hear the plea for peace in the words posted by those who listened to what these young men had to say to the American people. I heard the anger and fear in those posts calling for even more killing. The road to the future forks in these opposite points of view. Israel seeks isolation in a world growing ever smaller and more united. Zionist apartheid dooms the Israelis, not Arab hatred. The saftey they seek will come with the opening of their borders, not with the building of more walls.
    DreamTraveler
  • Dr. King said, “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.” It is a cycle that ends only when one party, in what would otherwise be a never ending conflagration, takes the high road and says “Not anymore.” The high road is seldom the easy one, but who, in a conflict between a long established democracy and rag tag radicals, will take that higher road? It has got to be Israel. Contrition will molify. Violence will intensify.
    StiflyStiferson
  • I appreciated this video! I am stunned that some Current members are quick to label this pod "propaganda" without considering the sources that influenced their opinions. I thought the Hezbollah students were pretty tolerant, considering that Lebanon had been invaded and occupied by Israel for 18 years. I wonder what those who oppose Hezbollah would do if the US were incapable of defending itself and was invaded and occupied by a military superpower. Hmmm?
    dianaDEsign
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
    Mideast Relations 10: Op-ed
    Mideast Relations 10: Op-ed
    A Washington Post Op-ed from April 2007 about the American Universities in the region.
    hollyg

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