This is the view from the observation deck, the museum is intended to be the centerpiece to a park that will eventually include hotels, paintball fields and even a cable car.
Posted on 04/12/2018 6:40:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Lebanon's civil war has been described as a house of mirrors in that "it was easier to find your way in than to find your way out," (Thomas Friedman). The longer the war dragged on the more disorienting the "house" became until the most impossible ironies emerged as Lebanon's very reality. At one point following the 1982 invasion, Israel supplied Iran with US manufactured TOW missiles in a hostage exchange agreement. Iran thereafter transferred the missiles to Hezbollah within Lebanon where they were then fired back at the Israelis occupying the south. I inspected the assortment of rocket launchers in front of me in search of clues to their past. Nearly all of the "enemy" weaponry displayed around me had been supplied to Israel from the United States, then captured by Hezbollah and set up in their museum.
Today, the party holds terrorist status with only a few countries world wide, these include the United States, Israel, and Britain. Definitions aside however, they are without doubt the most capable guerrilla movement anywhere on the planet... We walked through the narrow tunnels that the resistance fighters had painstakingly carved through the mountain top. We crammed into the concrete bunkers that would have rattled with gun and mortar fire. Upon arrival, visitors are first taken to a theatre for a film chronicling Hezbollah's combat history, although the screening had seemed more like a Sylvester Stallone action flick than a documentary. I remember thinking that war had never looked so tragically.... exciting...
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This is the view from the observation deck, the museum is intended to be the centerpiece to a park that will eventually include hotels, paintball fields and even a cable car.
I'd hate to see the selections in the gift shoppe.
Do they have a villians’ store?
rwood
No sign of an Old Navy... and Borders has been boarded up for years.
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