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At the time Said was writing, this was straightforwardly correct. (Israel are in belligerent occupation of southern Lebanon from 1982-2000, and Hezbollah was founded to resist that occupation). The morality of what Hezbollah is doing changes after 2000 when it is no longer resisting an ongoing occupation (although the legal status doesn't - they can continue prosecuting their justified war against Israel until a peace treaty is signed and the only legal objection to what they are doing is that they are attacking civilian targets) - and the fact that they did what they did after 2000 allows us to retrospectively reassess their motives from the earlier period.
Amnesty was trustworthy up until shortly after the end of the Cold War, and it doesn't become obvious that they have gone full woke until after Said died in 2003. So I wouldn't hold reliance on Amnesty that against him.
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