Alagha 487Lebanese civil war as a proxy war fought on behalf of others, as the title of
his book suggests: Une guerre pour les autres. Ghassan Tuéni, Une guerre
pour les autres [A war for others](Paris: Jean-Claude Lattès, 1985).
73.lthough the Patriarch stressed that the president should be elected by a A
two-thirds majority in the parliament (as the Hizbullah-led opposition
argued), he cautioned that boycotting the parliamentary session to elect the
president was tantamount to boycotting Lebanon.
- According to AFP estimates; Reuters reported the death toll as 80.
- See Nasrallah’s speech of 26 May 2008.
- The vacant seat of assassinated MP Antoine Ghanem was not filled by con-
ducting partial elections. - See the editorial of al-Akhbar 524, 15 May 2008.
- See al-Intiqad 1291, 18 August 2008, 5.
79.ee “Hizbullah and the 2009 Elections in Lebanon,” S European Union
Institute for Security Studies (June 2009).
80.t is important to point out that Hizbullah does not have complete hege- I
mony over the Shi‘i public sphere, which includes such dissident voices as
Sayyid Hani Fahs (a Shi‘i intellectual), Sayyid ‘Ali al-Amin (the ex-Mufti
of Tyre and Jabal ‘Amil), Shaykh Muhammad al-Hajj Hasan (the Leader of
the Free Shi‘i Movement—al-Tayyar al-Shi‘i al-Hurr),^ Shaykh Yusuf Kanj,
Shaykh Subhi al-Tufayli, and Ahmad al-As‘ad. - Nasrallah’s “Easter Speech” of 8 April 2007. Al-Intiqad 1428, 13 April 2007,
10–14.