The human face of Lebanon
Alex Klaushofer
July 24, 2006 04:56 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alex_klaushofer/2006/07/post_246.html
The view of Lebanon as a site for extremists directed by Iran and Syria
on which the Bush-Blair policy of non-intervention has so far rested
forgets one thing - the Lebanese people.
When I set out for Lebanon in 2004 I, like western political leaders,
had only the haziest notion of what the country was really like. I was
equipped with some mental images of cedars and sea, a superficial,
bookish grasp of the legacy of the civil war and a rather better
understanding of the dynamics of the different situation that prevailed
next door, with its predictable, long-running stand-off between the
Israelis and Palestinians.
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