The SLA Today

What is the fate of proxies who are no longer of use to the states that sponsored them? In the case of the South Lebanon Army, an Israeli-sponsored militia that ruled South Lebanon until the Israeli pullout in 2000, the answer is -- nothing good:

"On Sunday, approximately 100 SLA soldiers and their family members demonstrated opposite the David Gate at the Kirya base in Tel Aviv...The protesters feel betrayed by the Defense Ministry, which they believe abandoned them after many years of service.

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"We want the minimum that we deserve. I am not a new immigrant, I fought, served in the army and I deserve to be treated by the Defense Ministry. This is what we want. You can't throw people at the Immigrant Absorption Ministry,” said a former SLA officer."

There aren't many handouts around here, on either side of the border.