Hezbollah and its allies left the government because the UN investigation into the Hariri assassination is set to issue indictments of Hezbollah figures, thus confirming what pretty much everyone knew about the assassination - that Syria and Hezbollah were behind it.
The collapse of the Lebanese government has the potential of starting a general war in the Middle East since the Sunni-Shia tensions in Iraq, Lebanon and generally in the region between the Iran-Syria Shi'ite bloc and the Saudi-Egyptian-Jordanian-Gulf Arab bloc are very high.
Thoughts?
The collapse of the Lebanese government has the potential of starting a general war in the Middle East since the Sunni-Shia tensions in Iraq, Lebanon and generally in the region between the Iran-Syria Shi'ite bloc and the Saudi-Egyptian-Jordanian-Gulf Arab bloc are very high.
Thoughts?
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Lebanon's government has collapsed.
- 12/01/2011 08:58:33 PM
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i'm sure lebanon's government will work just like it always has
- 12/01/2011 09:45:07 PM
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Now *would* be ideal for Syria to try to regain the Golan Heights. *NM*
- 12/01/2011 10:23:31 PM
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syria wouldn't try to take back the golan by force
- 13/01/2011 01:14:14 AM
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Re: syria wouldn't try to take back the golan by force
- 13/01/2011 01:37:04 PM
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actually.....
- 13/01/2011 04:01:47 PM
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The Golan Heights are of extreme strategic value. Israel cannot afford to let it go...
- 13/01/2011 08:22:27 PM
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*NM*