Hezbollah goes corporate
While interviewing Hezbollah militants, you’d expect enthusiasm and some kind of zeal on their part towards the “existential” or “sacred” battle they’re fighting in Syria. You’d assume they’re participating in the war to protect the “resistance” or Lebanon from extremists and a “Zionist conspiracy” to destroy the Party of God. They do assert that during the first round of interviews. However, the more they talk, and the more comfortable they get, you start to sense that they are not entirely confident about that line you hear in Hezbollah officials’ speeches and statements. You eventually realize that money plays a major part in their involvement.
The most noteworthy part is that most of these young men come from the poorest neighborhood of the southern suburbs of Beirut (Dahiyeh), where unemployment and low levels of education are more common than in the rest of Dahiyeh.
That was certainly not the case before Hezbollah entered the war in Syria.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/566829-hezbollah-goes-corporate
