All sides should try their best not to portray this as a defeat for Lebanon’s Sunnis.
Humiliated on Hezbollah TV. (Photo Credit: Yahoo!)
As Hezbollah moved into (Sunni) west Beirut and took on the moderate Future Movement, many will be tempted to portray this as a defeat for Lebanon’s Sunnis. That would be bad ideas whose repercussions will affect all parties in the country.
Unleashing the sectarian monster can seem like a good idea to Islamists allied with the Future Movement and to the Saudis, but they had better think twice before letting that genie out of the bottle. All parties, including the Future movement should actively portray this as a security and political situation, not a sectarian one.
Because before we know it, extreme elements can manipulate the sense of victimhood some Sunnis would have and target Shiaa symbols with terrorist operations that would unleash the same god-forsaken death spiral that exists in Iraq.
We don’t have to go through all what Iraq has suffered to realize that Al-Quaeda is not really what the Sunnis want for their protection.
Tags: Alquaeda, Beirut, Future Movement, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Iraq, Saad Hariri, Terrorism
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Mark McHenry
Dude, whatever you are smoking it must be good.
Hezbollah fights for Iran, not for Syria.
BTW Hamas is supported by Iran too, but primarily by all arab states. So Tom W. don’t blame iranians for all ills in the ME.
bye bye bad vilbel. and stay out, inta w hurras elarz.
oh, and say hi to lahd in his little gum and kazooz shop.
Mustapha,
Sahar El Khatib’s appearance on Kalam EL Nas is worth a post by itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwQ_PhDr9c
Leave Lebanon to the Lebanese…not the militias and foreign armies.
And….
If Israel wanted Lebanon, she’d have it. (And the Lebanese would be the Super-wealthy, High-Tech Capital of the region). Get real, expel the interlopers and reclaim your country.
>If Israel wanted Lebanon, she’d have it. (And the Lebanese would be the Super-wealthy, High-Tech Capital of the region). Get real, expel the interlopers and >reclaim your country.
Lebanon wouldn’t be wealthy if it was controlled by Israel, the Jews who came to control the country would be the wealthy ones. You should look into the news stories of women from Eastern Europe who are sold as sex slaves to Rabbis in Israel, you have no idea what Israel plans to do but it definitely isn’t as wonderful as you think it is.
Obviously…as I indicated, Israel does not want Lebanon.
Lebanon should try developing their economy and country..and stop wasting time with crazy fantasies and warfare (They are not very good at it).
Peace
How about those Eastern European women in Tyre?