Letter to a Hezbollah fighter

Since I no longer live in Lebanon, I have been asked to remain silent ...A few days ago, during a conversation with a friend, he quoted a line from Romanian writer Panait Istrati: “I can see the broken eggs. Now, where’s this omelet of yours?” — a response Istrati made in 1930 to the communist argument that “you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.”This line urges me to speak out and address you directly. You, the fighter. I don’t know your name, and I try to imagine you. You must be around 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years old. Commitment knows no age.You come from the South, the Bekaa, or maybe from Beirut; my family comes from a village in the South. Your party — Hezbollah (the Party of God) — has officially existed since 1985, but some attribute to it two attacks in 1983 against American and French forces present in...