>>Things do not look good right now and it looks like the whole region is ready to explode. So brace yourselves for more oil price hikes. But guess who is the puppet master behind all this!
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>Who are you referring to? The U.S. on one side? A coalition of Muslim countries, or perhaps some specific Muslim country, on the other?

No, not the US. Iran is the very well known sponsor of Hezbollah and my guess is Siria has also something to do with it.

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>>I'm really sorry for the Lebanese people who just happen to be in the middle of this nonsense stupidity after all the effort (and money) put into rebuilding their country.
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>I suspect that this time, it is not only Lebanon that will suffer. The entire situation seems to be escalating beyond control. This could well turn into WW3.

Well, if Iran and Siria enter the conflict it will be really difficult this time for Israel since the US will not want to jeopardize their arab friends support for the war in Iraq, so I think they'll do everything within their reach to make a deal. But I'm not an expert, just a guy who read the news.