louiseinlimbo

Well, perhaps all of the tourists who come here visit Hezbollah's Museum of the Resistance, but just don't write about it because, well, this Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group are classified as international terrorists by much of the West including the US, UK and EU (and due to this, I'm not including the photo I want to of one of their campaign posters with their flag in it ... who knows which surveillance systems might see and recognise it). First, a bit of background - for myself as much as for anyone else reading this.  Under a 1943 agreement, political power is divided among Lebanon’s predominant religious groups - a Sunni Muslim serves as Prime Minister, a Maronite Christian as President, and a Shiite Muslim as the speaker of parliament. Tensions between these groups evolved into civil war, however, as several factors upset the balance, especially the arrival of the Sunni Muslim Palestinian refugees in 1982, when they were expelled from Jordan....