Hezbollah built terror museum as Lebanon crumbles - analysis

Fighting this week killed five people and injured dozens at Ain al-Hilweh in Lebanon. This is a small city that is often referred to as a “refugee camp.” Its residents are Palestinians who have been denied rights by Lebanon for seven decades. Increasingly, armed groups in the city have been fighting each other using illegally obtained weapons. The Lebanese army, which is often funded and backed by the West, does not intervene to bring peace and security for civilians.

Meanwhile the terrorist group Hezbollah has been showcasing a new museum. According to the Christian Science Monitor, “confidence is on display at a Hezbollah museum that opened last week in the hills above Baalbek, an ancient Phoenician and Roman city in the Bekaa Valley. The museum is built on a site where Israeli commandos landed by helicopter for a brief mission in 2006 and took selfies.”  

The two areas are around a two hour drive from one another. One represents how Lebanon has been drained of security and resources and abandoned by its own government, while the other represents how Iran controls Lebanon via Hezbollah and how Hezbollah has become basically the official government of the country. READ MORE