{"id":5865,"date":"2010-06-08T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:07:18","slug":"bu-professor-tells-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/08\/bu-professor-tells-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"BU professor tells Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5867\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Hezbollah-A-Short-History1-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hezbollah - A Short History\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/\">International relations<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Augustus Richard Norton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/norton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>, a former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/\">U.N.<\/a> peacekeeper in Lebanon and author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"Hezbollah: A Short History\" href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/8363.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah: A Short History<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; testified before the<a href=\"http:\/\/foreign.senate.gov\/\"> Senate Foreign Relations Committee&#8217;s<\/a> Subcommittee on\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/general\/committee_membership\/committee_memberships_SSFR.htm#SSFR02\">Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs<\/a> about assessing the strength of Hezbollah.\u00a0 In his <a title=\"testimony\" href=\"http:\/\/drop.io\/nagydmh\/asset\/senate-fr-comm-june-8-2010-statementl-docx\" target=\"_blank\">testimony<\/a>, Norton made clear that Hezbollah remains a major influence in Lebanon because it&#8217;s the only military force see as capable of repelling the Israeli army.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne key to reducing Hezbollah\u2019s mass appeal may be to reduce the threat of war, rather than heighten it.\u00a0 So long as the\u00a0threat prevails, Hezbollah will be a prime beneficiary.<\/em><em>\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Augustus Richard Norton, 617-353-7808, <a href=\"mailto:arn@bu.edu\">arn@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, a former U.N. peacekeeper in Lebanon and author of &#8220;Hezbollah: A Short History,&#8221; testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee&#8217;s Subcommittee on\u00a0 Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs about assessing the strength of Hezbollah.\u00a0 In his testimony, Norton made clear that Hezbollah remains a major influence in Lebanon because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3113,3040,3115,202,540,3039,3116,3117,3114,1718],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7716,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/7716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}