Prisoners' Homecoming a Triumph for Hezbollah - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“The result is that Hezbollah emerges as a force in Lebanon that can deliver,” Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a political analyst in Lebanon and an expert on Hezbollah, wrote on the openDemocracy Web site. “Thereby perpetuating an important political dynamic — of the nonstate actor which functions as the de facto state versus the state nonactor which merely enjoys the status of the de jure state.”