Oh, I agree about Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is takfiri and to them the Shiite and the Alawii are more evil than even the Crusaders or Zionists.

Unfortunately Lebanon's problems began long before the recent clash between Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Israel. After "Black September" in 1970 when King Hussein expelled the PLO from Jordan, they relocated in Beirut and from that point on Lebanon was doomed. The Syrians and the PLO exploited and exacerbated every rift in Lebanese society and the "civil war" destroyed one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen.

The Lebanese - like the Palestinians - deserved much better than what history has given them, both in "leadership" and the and in the support of their "friends".


>>Huh Srdjan, why are you doing this ?? You know I would end up reading it {bg}
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>>Just a minor point - Hezbollah is in fact a foreign occupier in Lebanon - funded by both Shiite Iran and Alawite/Sunii Syria and definitely not acting in the best interests of the Lebanese, especially in their actions in the Bekaa where they collude with the Syrian drug operation.
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>>Al-Qaeda? Well, the Muslim Brotherhood, their god-parent, got closer than anybody to killing Assad pere but in the wierd alliances in the Middle East is it also true that 'Arab fighters' got a lot of safe haven in eastern Syria over the last eight years (even though most of them probably hated the Alawii more than the Americans)
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>>Since Hamas is Sunii and Fatah has always been somewhat secular it seems Hezbolloh are also not particularly interested in the best interests of the Palestinians either. You're quite right that Hezbollah is the creature of Iran but it has played a big part in helping the Syrians and Palestians destroy Lebanon, which was once one of the most hopeful places in the Middle East.
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>What ever history of Hizbullah is, truth is that they are now big political factor in Lebanon reality. Imo treating them as such would be much more productive, then classifying them as terrorist organisation. I don't have clue who does what in Bekaa, all I know is that Lebanon would have been stable and prosperous country today, if there was not for Hariri assasination, consecutive turmoil and finally invasion and 'defeat' of Israel in 2006 war. That 'defeat' is what promoted Hisbullah into a 'King Maker' and with them in such position, imaggine kingdom chances of ever becoming stable democracy.
>But what a heck they have to do with Al-Qaeda ??