Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Although Hezbollah believes in one-person-one-vote system and disagree with the multi-confessional quotas under the Ta'if Accord, it does not intend to force a one-person-one-vote system onto the country's Christians. [16] Hezbollah views its conflict with Israel and the Jewish people as religiously motivated.
"One Man One Vote" protest at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1964, when delegates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party attempted to be seated; they had been excluded from the regular Democratic Party of the state and general voting by Mississippi's racial segregation and discriminatory voter registration practices.
The political shake-up in Lebanon — which operates a sectarian power-sharing system — comes in the wake of Hezbollah's costly conflict with Israel.. The group had been exchanging strikes with ...
In other words, Hezbollah, one of the world’s best armed militant groups for the better part of the last 40 years, was set to be disarmed. Jubilation filled the streets. A presidential vacuum ...
Hezbollah has a military branch known as the Jihad Council, [225] one component of which is Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya ("The Islamic Resistance"), and is the possible sponsor of a number of lesser-known militant groups, some of which may be little more than fronts for Hezbollah itself, including the Organization of the Oppressed, the ...
The vote marks the first test of Lebanon's power balance since the Iran-backed Shi'ite group Hezbollah - which propelled its then Christian ally Aoun to the presidency in 2016 - emerged badly ...
The IDF hit a convoy of Hezbollah vehicles containing fighters that departed from al-Qusayr, Syria. [76] An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah members at a weapons depot in Dibbin. [77] Four IDF reservists, one of them holding a rank of major (res.), were killed near Labbouneh, south Lebanon. The soldiers were in an underground Hezbollah complex ...
The Resistance and Development Bloc centered in South Lebanon won a total of 23 seats in the Second Round of voting only (of which Hezbollah was a part). Hezbollah won one seat in the First & Third Rounds of voting, and Hezbollah ended up with a total of 14 controlled seats as a part of the March 8 Alliance in the end.