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Yours Truly Quoted In The Economist

January 30, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

It’s not everyday that you open one of the world’s most respected magazines and find out that they concluded an article with your own words:

Yet the Hizbullah-led opposition’s rise to power augurs ill for the longer term, and not only because of the increased danger of conflict with Israel. As a Lebanese blogger commented, “If there is one lesson our country learned from Hizbullah, it’s that violence works. All the money, soft power and so-called influence is rubbish when it comes to raw boots on the ground and heavy weaponry.

Here’s the original post from where that quote was taken. Sweet.