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From: LindyBill10/30/2006 9:57:39 AM
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Hezbollah To Unleash Civil War?
It Shines for All blog
By Daniel Freedman on Middle East

"Emboldened by this summer's war with Israel, the radical Islamist Hezbollah party has gone on the political offensive inside Lebanon, determined either to replace or to bring down the pro-American government," the Boston Globe reports (via dailyalert.org).

"Political leaders in Hezbollah, Lebanon's main Shi'ite Muslim movement, say the Shi'ites have proved that they command far more popular support than is reflected in their share of government posts under Lebanon's delicate power-sharing arrangement. That system, adopted under a deal that ended the nation's deadly civil war in 1990, divides power among the country's main sectarian groups -- Shi'ites, Sunni Muslims, Druze, and Christians.

Now, Hezbollah and an allied Christian political party led by General Michel Aoun are demanding a government reshuffle that would give them more positions -- and would in effect give Hezbollah veto power over any legislation. They have threatened to boycott the government or try to bring it down through strikes and street demonstrations if they don't get more posts.

Hezbollah's demand threatens a sectarian power-sharing arrangement that has averted civil war for 15 years, doling out positions of power to different groups without regard to their real share of voter support. Any challenge to that system would cause some sects to lose power and could unleash a new round of the bloodshed that gripped Lebanon from 1975 to 1990."

It's beginning to look like that Israel did Free Lebanon a big favor by weakening Hezbollah.
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