As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead.

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In an Arab world dominated by Sunni Muslims, Hezbollah agitates on behalf of Shiite identity forming, along with Syria and Iran, a column of resistance sometimes called the Shiite Axis.

NEWYORKER: After Syria