...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...’s economic reform plan that leaked last week was long awaited. The document caused a gale of criticism across Lebanon, as it proposed, among many things, a restructuring of the Lebanese banks’ debt, and a partial confiscation of the depositors money, or what remains of it.
In 34-pages, the cabinet of Prime Minister Hassan Diab proposes to fix decades of corruption and suicidal government policies, which coupled with Hezbollah hegemony over the Lebanese state, have placed the country in political and economic ruin.