Trip to Mleeta Summer 2010

This was my trip to the village of Mleeta where the Resistance War Musuem is located on top of the biggest hill in the area. Its 2000LL to get in (about 1.50$ per person) and be prepared to walk because there is a lot to see. The drive up there isnt easy as there was a lot of construction happening and the roads are very narrow and steep. When you reach the top its packed with cars and tour buses with visitors from every country you can think of. I actually bumped into some people there I knew from Canada.

The site sits on a former Hezbollah command centre and theyve turned the entire area into a museum complete with prayer rooms, souvenier shop, a pit with captured Israeli armour including a Merkava tank, a room showcasing captured Israeli weaponary, a movie theater, observations decks, monuments dedicated to fighters, and a vast outdoor pathway which tours you passed Hezbollah weapons and leads to a bunker located deep inside the mountain. There are descriptive signs posted at every monument, weapon, and pathway written both in English and Arabic.

If you can't make the trip to this place just drive around in South Lebanon to any village, there was so much captured weaponary from the 2006 war that virtually every village has something to display.

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[revol148]

Israel should never have left the 40km border zone in south Lebanon back in mid 2000.Still least they proved that the concept of land-for-peace is a nonsense.Reinforced by leaving Gaza a year later - which again hardly brought them much in the way of peace either.Still they have learnt hence there will be no trading with the Shebaa farms or the Golan heights for any non-existent peace.

[DemonBird2]

@revol148 Any lasting peace requires that both parties refrain from interfering in their neighbours affairs. In Israel's case, in 2000 they were still holding on to the Sheeba Farms, they were breaking sound barriers in the Beirut capital on almost a daily basis, and they had an active spy network within almost every gov. & civilian infrastructure of Lebanon. This is an act of war that no nation can tolerate.

[revol148]

@DemonBird2 Sadly Lebanon is the innocent party in this never ending conflict.My distrust of the Palestinian people began upon realising how the (useless) PLO exploited the civil war in Lebanon & used their military hardware to antagonize their southern neighbour into a predictable response.That of course doesn't excuse the excesses of the Israeli army in the trashing of beautiful Beirut but the Palestinians were the catalyst and reason enough why they should have been kicked out of that country

[DemonBird2]

@revol148 That's certainly one way to look at. You should understand that the creation of the Israeli state in 48 also created millions of Palestinian refugees of whom some 300,000 moved to camps in Lebanon (there numbers are close to half a million now). The expansionist push of Israeli settlers continually evicting Palestinians out of their homes further infuriated them to attack back (using Lebanon as u correctly stated as their launching ground). My point is all root problems have causes.

[DemonBird2]

@revol148 The story with Gaza is a different situation than Lebanons. Israels withdrawal didn't solve any of the root problems. They were still actively building/promoting settlement activity, have kept the territories under a Nazi like encampment with walls blocking farmers from their fields, fisherman blocked access to their fishing grounds, & families denied permits to leave/enter cities. You ask why groups like Hamas exist but u ignore that these are conditions NO human being will live by.

[MsHezb]

Definite recommendation to anyone who hasn't been there yet.

[revol148]

@DemonBird2 I can only imagine how sick of the Palestinians the neighbouring countries of Lebanon and Syria are (there in fact was a full on battle with the Lebanese army a few years ago).So what is the point of all this - cann't these refugees be accomodated.I am aware the wider Arab world deep down cares less of their Palestinian brothers (at least Kuwait after the first Gulf war was honest about that) but surely the notion that Israel is not going to disappear is going to sink in eventually?!

[revol148]

@DemonBird2 there is plenty of evidence to suggest that when the israelis pulled out of Gaza the glass houses which back in the 1980's were very profitable exporting fruit & veg to Europe and Israel - were simply destroyed.I appreciate Hamas was the least worse option available - however the sooner the government there signs a non-agression with israel they will never go forward.What bothers me is that the EU and US bankroll the Gaza strip - surely they could be starved into submission?

[jamila76]

I lost my video footage from mlita thank you for posting your I loved it there I didn't want to go home hay hat mila thila al mawt to isreal!!!

[jamila76]

I lost my video footage from mlita thank you for posting your I loved it there I didn't want to go home