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“Double Standards”

January 27, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

Christopher Anzalone compares the reaction of Hezbollah to Tunisia’s revolution and to the green revolution in Iran and concludes:

Hezbollah has clearly shown that for all its claims to represent the “downtrodden and oppressed of the world,” its concern for political and social freedoms, like those of the nation-states it criticizes, is selective and determined by self-interest rather than a belief in universal justice.

Keep that in mind for the upcoming speeches about Egypt.