Jbeil

Now, when you walk over this hillside and you walk yourself down into Bint Jbeil, which is about another mile farther to the north, you can see that this large city puts Israel that much farther north and that much farther beyond Maroun al-Ras, that commanding piece of terrain.

CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2006 2006

“Are you coming to Bint Jbeil?” he asked with an encouraging nod.

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Because her residency was still in Bint Jbeil, where she had been born, she had a choice: she could spend hours on a hot, diesel-fumed bus, rattling down to the village she left behind decades ago, all for the dubious pleasure of casting a vote for politicians who did not represent her.

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But Alex Thomson, filing for Channel 4 from the same town, Bint Jbeil, on the same day, presented a different perspective.

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In Bint Jbeil, the village where Umm Hassane grew up, politicians would pass out bread, meat, vegetables, and olive oil a few days before the elections.

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Everyone laughed: he might be pushing thirty, might have covered wars and revolutions, and have a big job and an American wife; but here in Bint Jbeil, he was still the baby of the family, and famous for his finicky eating.

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Closer to Bint Jbeil, Berri began to give way to airbrushed photographs of martyrs: Shiite guerrillas who had died fighting the Israeli military since 1978, when it occupied a swath of the south that included Bint Jbeil.

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A few weeks after the cease-fire, Mohamad and I drove down to Bint Jbeil with Aunt Nahla.

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Now, twenty-three years later, as we drove to Bint Jbeil, a discussion broke out inside the car: Hanan wanted to go straight to the memorial service, but Hassan insisted that we go to see Aunt Nahla first.

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We would come home to find her reclining like a pasha, surrounded by relatives from Bint Jbeil, headscarved old hajjis and tiny old men who sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs pulled up around her as she regaled them with tales of The Operation.

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