...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers..., a senior Western diplomat said.
"Foreign forces incited hardline armed factions in the camp in an attempt to seize control of it, which resulted in the liquidation of Paleostinian National Security official Abou Ashraf al-Armoushi and a number of his
"A prominent Gulf state meanwhile intervened by financing the Fatah Movement to prevent the spread of the hardliners," the diplomat said.
"The Lebanese Army is carrying out very calculated security missions, including the encirclement of the camp’s entrances, with the aim of preventing the defeat of the Fatah Movement in it, disallowing any button men from leaving it and protecting the very vital South highway," the diplomat added.
Hezbollah is meanwhile "in favor of maintaining balance between the warring factions and its decision is not to intervene as long as the army is in control of things and the South highway is secure," the diplomat said.
"In response to the use of the hardline bully boyz card and the financing of the other group (Fatah) by a certain country, and in the face of the return of (drug) smuggling and the creation of tensions in the region, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
expressed its anger and dismay through asking the 400 Saudi citizens in Lebanon to leave it, after they had come to Lebanon through
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
in violation of their country’s travel ban for Lebanon," the diplomat added.