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Lebanon: no ‘civil war’ this time
Israel has always feared Lebanon’s multi-confessional culture and wanted to break it up. But the latest attack, unlike earlier interventions and invasions, has so far failed to provoke internal conflict.
by Georges Corm
ISRAEL, as a “Jewish state”, to quote the title of the book by Theodor Herzl who founded the Zionist Movement in 1897, was in trouble from the start. It came up against a tradition of religious pluralism in the Middle East that had held for more than 1,000 years, embracing Christian members of (...)
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