The Shofar: Beyond Words
A Lebanese Shi’ite boy is lured into combat by Hezbollah. The fables about the thrill of combat turn into bitter reality on the battlefield. He undergoes a profound change that leads him to an improbable new life.
Hezbollah maintains control by wielding lethal force to silence dissenting voices, especially among the Lebanese Shi’ites it claims to represent. Yet these voices want to be heard—and the world needs to hear them, for the sake of a new conversation about how to end the harm Hezbollah does to Arabs and Israelis alike. Over the past year, the Center for Peace Communications, a New York nonprofit, interviewed Shi’ite opponents of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Sunni victims of Hezbollah in Syria, each of whom in their own way has fought back against the group’s depredations. At great personal risk, they let us record and film them bearing witness to the reality Hezbollah hides. To obscure the identity of these brave people, we have illustrated their stories with striking animation. The voices you hear, however, are theirs. The result is Hezbollah’s Hostages, a Center for Peace Communications production which The Free Press is presenting exclusively to English-language audiences on successive Mondays beginning today.
The first episode of this series is “The Combatant.” It tells the story of a Lebanese Shi’ite boy transfixed by American action movies who is lured into combat by Hezbollah during its entry into the Syrian civil war.
If I understood the story of how he was injured correctly, at the time they weren't even fighting Israel - they were fighting each other. Hisballah was taking positions from other "jihadists" within Syria, who would take them back; and then Hisballah would send their people again to take the same positions. A waste of young men's lives indeed!
I see a parallel between his indoctrination and what's happening in American schools (even before college).
Unfortunately, you are right and most American parents don't know even non Muslims are indoctrinated to my choas for Jewish sudents and also be against America and Israel, so called western values, which are really Judeo-christian values
It is a powerful description of what actually happens, as opposed to the rhetoric that is so often heard regarding such systems – and it is a very sobering and frightening picture... And underscores the abusive, almost psychopathic nature of the people running and executing the actions for the organization, and all those like it... What evil they spawn, what chaos they love to spread, and how they waste potential and human life...!
You are absolutely right, how do we stop this spawn of evil from spreading its like a very bad disease that needs ways to get stopped or else the person's body is im grave danger