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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Saudi Arabia's bitter Lebanese divorce
2016-04-06
You break it, you own it, or Lebanon reaps what Hizb'allah sowed.
[Ynet] The waspish cartoon in a Saudi-owned newspaper summed up the anger behind Riyadh's decision to cancel billions of dollars in military aid and suspend decades of engagement in Leb's fraught politics. "The State of Leb: April Fool", it read.

Published on the same day that a Saudi-owned television news channel shut down its Lebanese operations, Friday's cartoon was the latest sign of a falling out which began in January and has become increasingly embittered.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  The KSA is STILL having mucho problems all around the ME + Muslim World as per resisting Shia Iran's onslaughts, + NOT TOO KEEN ON PUBLICLY ADMITTING 'EM EITHER.

BOTH OWG SUPERPOWER IRAN + WANNABE KSA ARE IN SERIOUS LEARNING CURVES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-04-06 22:39  

#2  Gee, I recall when Leb was considered the Switzerland of the ME. Course that was back when I was in high school, long, long ago and far, far away.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-04-06 13:22  

#1  the Saudi's have actually tried, unsuccessfully, to stabilize Leb for several decades

Iran and, in a different way, the Paleos are responsible for at least 75% of the trouble in Leb since, say, 1975. In the 70s and early 80s, the Soviets were responsible for a lot of the problems also. Of course, the Lebanese themselves have done horrible things to each other also. Somewhere over 300,000 people have been killed in factional and terrorist violence since 1975 (most before 1990 during the active civil war)
Posted by: lord garth   2016-04-06 08:51  

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