تقارير: عون يقبل بالتمديد شرط ألا يطال سليمان وقهوجي

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should i try one more time naharnet? or will you delete it again?

Really ...

Suleiman needs to go ... He does not represent the Christian point of view. The "Dear General" is nothing more than a flunky of NATO and foreign business interests.

Aaron David Miller, in a recent article, the Myth of the Arab State published in "The National Interest" refers to Lebanon as having been a "non-state" for many years. He wrote, "It possesses the trappings of statehood, but its central government can't control the forces of violence within Lebanese society (Tripoli, Hezbollah), lacks the confidence of all its sectarian groups (Shiites), and has failed to maintain sovereignty over its own territory. The hollowing out of Lebanon is likely to contiue even if Hezbollah's influence is reduced with the travails of its Syrian backer."

Look at this guy in the picture at the head of this article. Professing to be the last great hope for confessional Christian parties, he is the sole political facilitator for Hezbollah, which is anathema to confessional Christian parties.
The existence of Hezbollah is the primary cause for Lebanon being a "non-state". As for the "trappings of statehood", that's what happens when factions agree to "continue the mandate" of a Parliament, that never meets and whose Members' terms have expired because the political class can't agree on a proper rigging of the laws so that one side or the other can be assured of winning the next election. The people of Lebanon who allow this condition in their political class (reference the picture at the head of this article) to persist are the ones who are accelerating the hollowing out of the Lebanese state.