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Originally Posted by Gino
No one can deny the extremely sharp division between the Lebanese. Never in history has it been so bold, irreversible and complex... The problem today is, that there is no 'Big Brother', no mediator... In the old days, it was some foreign country, syria, and before that, france, and over a century ago the Ottoman empire. Today, no one but the UNIFIL has foreign military presence in Lebanon, and frankly, Lebanese people dont know how to solve their own problems without help...
Who can help? The arabs, useless. Iran, shu khassa? the US mashghouleh bil dehil taba3a... Who then? Europe? naaaah.
The answer is:
TURKEY!
Turkey has good ties with all the parties involved in the Lebanese 'conflict'... Good relations with Syria and Iran... Has enough influence over European countries... Has no problem with the Israelis, and is an American ally...Finally, it has, to some extent, the sympathy of the sunnis in lebanon, it being a major sunni nation. So, if anyone can help, it's not 3amer mousa, nor kofi anan, nor malek fahed, certainly not bush or ahmadinajad or chirac...Turkey :P
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