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Hezbollah And Lebanese Army are “Frenemies”
August 4, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui
As Angie Nassar notes in NowLebanon’s Blog, the army and Hezbollah are both competitors and partners:
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah was in true frenemy form on Tuesday. He kept the Resistance out of the Lebanon-Israeli border clashes and praised the army’s efforts as courageous. Further, he said, “The LAF protects the Resistance, just as the Resistance protects the LAF, and the Lebanese people protect the LAF and the Resistance. This is the formula.