...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...aimed at causing presidential vacuum accompanied by a constitutional vacuum, which is more and more complicating the election of a president."
"Didn’t some political groups block the formation of a government prior to the end of the term of (ex-)President General Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
despite their knowledge that the incumbent government had been certainly resigned and acting in caretaker capacity and that it would create problems in the specification of its role?" al-Rahi added in his annual Christmas message.
Noting that the Maronite patriarchate is "determined to continue its struggle and efforts inside Lebanon and with the Arab and international communities to speed up the presidential election," the patriarch noted that "the regional conflict is hindering these efforts, because some want a president for them, not for Lebanon, and want a president for their project, not for the historic Lebanese project."