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They thought Hezbollah would lose the moral authority with which it had kept in line its millions of fans, from the willing like the Bazzis and the Haidars, to the ambivalent like Dergham and the mokhtar of Borj Qalaouay, to the skeptics.
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For a small fee the mokhtar confirms that the applicant is in fact who he claims to be, a function fulfilled in other societies by an identity card or birth certificate.
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On August 14, 2006, the first day of the full ceasefire, I went to Borj Qalaouay in search of Hussein Rumeiti, the mokhtar I had met a few weeks earlier in the square beside the Hezbollah rocket-launching operation.
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He was Hussein Rumeiti, a mokhtar from the next village over, Borj Qalaouay, and clearly a man in charge.
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By law, the mokhtar has to sign any application for an electricity hookup, a phone line, school enrollment, voter registration, any public service.
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The mokhtar embodies the Orwellian compact of communitarian society: the power structure takes care of the neediest, but it never lowers its invasive gaze from the citizenry.
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I found the mokhtar sitting in his yard, in a low flat house at the first fork in the road through Borj Qalaouay.
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Hezbollah and to some extent, American policy in the region had succeeded at polarizing the choices so extremely that most people saw only two options, the mokhtar said: the resistance way and the path of the Americans.
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As Hussein Rumeiti, the mokhtar of the village of Borj Qalaouay, said, the project of the state had failed not just in Lebanon and Palestine, but everywhere in the Middle East.
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Ahmed mokhtar posted at Sunday, February 07, 2010 9: 31 AM
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