Media resources of Hamas and Hezbollah as instruments social and political activity
This article examines the role of party mass media in the work of HAMAS and Hezbollah - two Islamist movements representing the signi cant political forces in the Levant. The propaganda of certain views on the Internet is one of methods of modern political struggle. The author analyzes the ways in which the information is presented, the specific features of the information management, and the correlation between the content of HAMAS and Hezbollah publications and their ideologies or policies. The discovered data allows one to conclude that the parties use their media to compensate for the lack of Islamic rhetoric in their practical work, as well as to sustain their social vector and to preserve the loyalty of the religiously-oriented electorate.