Steve Sweeney
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591 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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I mean...
Of course, there's strong support for Hezbollah in those areas because they see them as the only organization that is standing up and fighting against Israel, that is defending their land, their territory.
Hezbollah was only born in the mid-1980s.
Now, the people of Lebanon don't have a dereliction or a fantasy or a predispose to using weapons and guns.
It's not that they enjoy going around shooting people.
they were formed as an armed militia exactly to defend their land.
The same as in Ireland, the same as in, in fact, you can pick any country that's come under attack from, um, you know, from the, from the Western powers, from Israel, from their neighbors, you know, that's the origins of these organizations, but to call it Hezbollah land, which is some of the description that we're, we're finding, this is, as we said, the land that Jesus walked in, it's a land, uh, rich, um,
in culture and and history and but the western journalists are kind of seeing it very much or speaking about it or writing about it very much in those terms we hear the same kind of it's not like these dog whistled trigger words you know iran backed
the Iranian-backed militia, the Hezbollah strongholds, these kind of things.
The terminology that they use, and it's absolutely deliberate to justify Israel bombing those lands.
That's all it is.
So whether they're embarrassed about writing that or not, I don't know.
I think it's very difficult to get a job in the British media if you don't write those things.
um those kind of lines or you don't speak them into a camera now um noam chomsky who um back in i guess the 90s was interviewing a
A British journalist, Andrew Martin, I think he hit the nail on the head when he said, okay, I'm not necessarily saying you don't believe what you're saying, but if you didn't believe what you said, you wouldn't be sitting where you are now.
I think that's true, right?
I mean, you're not going to get a job unless you believe those things, unless you're prepared to say them or write them.
So whether they're embarrassed or not,
100%, without doubt.
I'll stay in Lebanon.
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