The Tourist Landmark of the Resistance is a fun-filled day for the entire family celebrating the holy Islamic resistance against the perfidious Zionist Entity
The pit is described on a sign as 'structural scenic art". Blown-up Israeli tanks and helmets are 'artistically' scattered about in a giant hole in the ground.
Hezbollah now has a theme park. The Tourist Landmark of the Resistance promises a fun-filled day for the entire family celebrating the holy Islamic “resistance” against the perfidious Zionist Entity. The Syrian- and Iranian-backed Party of God built it on top of a mountain overlooking South Lebanon and the Israeli border area, and they bus in school kids from all over the country to look at it. Anti-American propagandist Noam Chomsky attended the inauguration.
It’s open to visitors from everywhere in the world except Israel, so I had to see it. My friend and occasional traveling companion Sean LaFreniere joined me, and we set out in a rental car from Beirut.
Getting there was a bit tricky. The museum-park was built on an old Hezbollah combat base that sits 3,400 feet above the rolling hills of South Lebanon. The nearby village of Mleeta is nowhere near a main road, nor is it on any maps, not even the huge and otherwise comprehensive map I bought for twelve dollars.
But Google Earth knows where it is, and I could see online that it’s just four miles south of the Christian town of Jezzine at the southern tip of the Mount Lebanon range.
Read the rest of Michael J. Totten's field trip