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dutch777

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1. Wasted breath. Lebanon is a failed state and Iran, Israel and others all can meddle at will as the Lebanese people....

Reply to Beastly Boy (Original post)

Fri Oct 18, 2024, 08:48 AM

Oct 2024

...are so divided and by default allow it. Until the people of Lebanon rise up with one voice that is not Druze, Shia, Sunni first but rather united as Lebanese, they will just continue to be proxies floating on political and economic tides of which they have no control.

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Lebanese PM says he rejects Iranian interference in a Lebanese matter [View all] Beastly Boy Oct 2024 OP

Wasted breath. Lebanon is a failed state and Iran, Israel and others all can meddle at will as the Lebanese people.... dutch777 Oct 2024 #1

The content of the statement is indeed inconsequential. It is the fact that Lebanon's PM Beastly Boy Oct 2024 #2