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Touching the Hezbollah NerveBy Matthew Levitt
Last week I wrote a Policywatch for The Washington Institute calling for the EU to ban Hezbollah (see Policywatch #958, Ban Hizballah in Europe). In response, Jihad al-Khazen, a senior editor and author of an opinion column with the Arabic daily al-Hayat, wrote a column calling me a "Likudnik" for the audacity of calling Hezbollah at terrorist group. Al-Khazen has written several such columns in response to my analyses, including one in which he argued that the Damascus office of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (and its leader, Ramadan Shallah) could not possibly be a terrorist organizaiton as I had argued, because Ramadan Shallah - a "personal friend" - told him so. Al-Khazen's column clearing Hezbollah's good name can be found here. While their substantive arguments are shallow enough and are easily rebutted, Arab intellectuals like al-Khazen cannot themselves be written off as easily. The reason is that the Arab masses can hardly be expected to support efforts to deligimitze the use of terror against civilians to achieve political goals when their most respected journalists and intellectuals act as apologists for any act of violence carried out in the name of an otherwise legitimate goal. Consider this just one more example highlighting the need to better engage in the battle of ideas, or strategic counterterrorism, even as we continue tactical counterterrorism operations aimed at rolling up cells, siezing funds and arresting or killing operatives. Well, if my recent brief on Hezbollah and the EU got under Jihad al-Khazen's skin, he's going to love my chapter on "Hezbollah Finances: Funding the Party of God," available now on The Washington Institute's website and due to be published as part of the project "Terrorism Financing and State Responses in Comparative Perspective," sponsored by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California. This paper and others will be published in a forthcoming volume edited by NPS's Jeanne Giraldo and Harold Trinkunas.
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