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How did Hezbollah integrate itself into southern Lebanon and pretty much become the de facto gov but not the strangle hold?
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Don_Dickle lemmy.world Patnou@lemmy.world
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mrdown lemmy.world mrdown@lemmy.world
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The official government been ignoring the south since independence giving hezbollah the opportunity to build a state within a state building schools, hospital etc
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PugJesus Moderator PugJesus@piefed.social
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Money and troops shipped straight from Iran, mostly.
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HobbitFoot thelemmy.club HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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mrdown wrote:
The official government been ignoring the south since independence giving hezbollah the opportunity to build a state within a state building schools, hospital etc

Yeah. Hezbollah typically gets represented in international news more for its militia, but the locals experience it more as a political party/machine running a lot of local government.
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