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2008-09-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Israel should have long ago talked turkey with Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia about getting a Sunni army into Lebanon to counter the Shiite threat.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-25 00:10|| 2008-09-25 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Anonymoose, which of their war-making tools and tactics are the Saudis and the Egyptians actually capable of using effectively?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-25 07:37|| 2008-09-25 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Moose, wouldn't work. The Shi'a are a plurality and near-majority in the country now. Sunnis, Druze and Maronites are each minorities. We might not like it much, but a Shiastan in Lebanon is a reality. Problem is, it's controlled by Hezbollah. Better strategy is to push for a non-Hezbollah controlled Shi'a state. Best way to do that is to kill the Hezbies.

Posted by Steve White 2008-09-25 11:34|| 2008-09-25 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Other day Saad Hariri paid a call on our own old friend Ayatollah Sistani. What was a Leb Sunni doing chatting up an Iraqi Shiite Grand Ayatollah? talking about the need for a more pluralist Shia politics not controlled from Teheran. Hezb uses its control over South Leb (and the winner take all Leb electoral system) to suppress alternatives within the Leb Shia community, IIUC.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-25 16:38|| 2008-09-25 16:38|| Front Page Top

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