Octavia Nasr, CNN's senior editor of Middle East affairs, is going to get a lot of grief over this tweet about the death of Hezbollah's Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.
What is it about Fadlallah's record that earns Nasr's respect?
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Fadlallah's approval of the Hezbollah manifesto, which describes "the necessity for the destruction of Israel?"
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Fadlallah's links to the 1983 truck bombing of the US Marine barracks, the 2008 Mercaz HaRav Kook massacre, and his support for the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran?
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A fatwa to boycott Israeli and USA products?
As far as all-time sympathy for the devil goes, Barbara Plett's tears for Arafat still tops the list.
Related reading: Hizbullah in Lebanon
(Hat tip: dejerusalem)
