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Robert Fisk Tells Us What Lebanon’s Real Problem Is
January 14, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui
Fisk:
The problem with Lebanon is perfectly simple, even if the Western powers prefer to ignore it. It is a confessional state. […] The problem is that to become a modern state it must de-confessionalise. But Lebanon cannot do so. Its identity is sectarianism and that is its tragedy […]
The Shias of Lebanon, of which Hezbollah is the leading party, are perhaps 40 per cent of the population. The Christians are a minority. If Lebanon has a future, it will be in due course be a Shia Muslim country. We may not like this; the West may not like this. But that is the truth.