Lebanon: Political Crisis Set to Worsen
3 avril 2008 | Posté dans Beirut, Hezbollah, Impérialisme, Lebanon, Palestine, Politique, Solidarité
- IPS. March, 12th. Analysis by Rebecca Murray
- Photo: Opposition protests in Beirut.
Tyre, Lebanon — Soon after the U.S. destroyer USS Cole was deployed off Lebanon’s shore Feb. 28 to “preserve political stability”, a group of young men gathered around in the embattled agricultural town Qana in south Lebanon, and voiced their fears.
“Everyone feels there is a war coming,” said Salman Ismael, a 22-year-old university student. “Especially after the killing of (Hezbollah commander) Imad Mughniyeh and what is happening in Gaza. And now U.S. ships come to the waters of Lebanon. Israel wants to improve her army in the Middle East after its defeat in 2006, she wants the Arabs to be scared of her.”
