...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 street protests expanded to areas in South Lebanon - the stronghold of the Shiite duo (Amal Movement and Hezbollah) — political reactions by the two parties reflected a divergence in views.
The protests extended to the South and the southern suburbs of Beirut, where several roads were blocked with burning tires.
Amal, headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih
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...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
, was accused on social media of inciting its supporters to participate in the protests as a means to pressure President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
to conclude a settlement with President-designate Saad Hariri
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
that would produce a new government.
While Amal sources stressed that the party had nothing to do with these moves, they noted in a statement to Asharq al-Awsat that addressing the financial and living crisis and economic deterioration "can only be done with the presence of an effective government."
Hezbollah and Amal Movement have conflicting stances over many files, including the relationship with the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
, Hezbollah’s ally. Disagreements between their supporters are also increasing, especially on social media, regarding political approaches to internal and regional policies.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
sources close to the Shiite duo said that the disagreements were only "about the details", stressing that the two parties met on strategic files and major issues, including "the need to form a government that would address the living and economic crises," as well as "major strategic headlines linked to the conflict with Israel and the need to resist it."