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“Lebanon, it seems, was almost designed to be the everlasting battleground for others’ political, strategic and ideological conflicts, conflicts which sometimes escalate into their proxy wars.”
― Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
― Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
“(‘Lebanonization’) become an official part of the French language, defined in the latest editions of Larousse as ‘a process of fragmentation of a state, as a result of confrontation between diverse communities’, and ‘tending to replace “balkanisation”’.”
― Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
― Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
“But the Bush Administration did not yet understand, or, if it did, did not yet care enough to try to stop it. Yet even it was getting seriously upset with its Israeli protégé - albeit mainly for military and strategic, rather than moral, reasons. It was not simply that Israel had failed to expand the war on Hizbullah by attacking Syria too. For that is what ‘many parts’ of the Bush Administration, led by the passionately pro-Israeli neoconservative, National Security Adviser Elliot Abrams, had been urging it to do, and there was a ‘lot of anger’ in the White House that it hadn’t.106”
― Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
― Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
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