Ливан...

[Capricorn]

Интересно узнать про ету страну в связи с Конфликтом.

1. Есть ли у них Армия? Вроде как есть, но как-то не особенно заметна. Могут ли они самостоятельно дать отпор Изрaилю? Могут ли вытолкать Хезболла из Ливана, если отадут приказ?
2. Кто там правит "бал"? Сирия? Деиствительно ли прав-во и значительная часть населения поддерживает "дело Хезбола" или у них там "пакт о невмешaтельстве", типа Хезболе дали приют, а Ливану дают возможность не быть втянутым в мусульманские разборки и оставаться секулярным/светским гос-вом?

[DP]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon

1. да, да, нет, нет

2. Израиль

[Capricorn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon
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Мда. Восток - дело тонкое.

In June, 1976 Syria sent 40,000 troops into Lebanon to prevent the Maronite militias from being overrun by Palestinian forces. The fact that Baathist Syrians were fighting against Palestinians was ironic. Together the Syrians and Maronites pushed the Palestinians out of Beirut and into southern Lebanon. Over the next few years, shifting political climates resulted in Syria being allied with the Palestinians and some of the Maronites allied with Israel. Syrian forces remained in Lebanon, effectively dominating its government and occupying the country until 2005

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[sergeika]

А тем временем в Багдаде...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/world ... iites.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 19 — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq on Wednesday forcefully denounced the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, marking a sharp break with President Bush’s position and highlighting the growing power of a Shiite Muslim identity across the Middle East.
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His stance is noteworthy because it is a significant split with American policy toward Israel. It has been the Americans’ hope that Iraq would become President Bush’s staunchest ally among Arab nations.
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The resentment of the Iraqi government toward Israel calls into question one of the rationales among some conservatives for the American invasion of Iraq — that an American-backed democratic state here would inevitably become an ally of Israel and, by doing so, catalyze a change of attitude across the rest of the Arab world.
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In recent days, residents of some cities in the Shiite heartland of southern Iraq, including Kut and Basra, have taken to the streets to protest Israel’s strikes.
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The Israeli assault is bringing to the fore one of the unintended consequences of the American war here — the potential for what many analysts call a Shiite crescent stretching from Iran to Iraq to Lebanon. It is a phenomenon that could rewrite the political map of the Middle East...