• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Jesus fucking Christ. And exactly how are they gonna do that? Condition a ceasefire on an election rigged against Hezbollah-friendly candidates?

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      3 months ago

      “We have made clear for some time that we think the Lebanese government needs to overcome the dysfunction in the system — one of the primary instigators of that dysfunction being the Hezbollah veto over who the next president would be — and elect a president. That remains true,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday.

      Hezzbutthollah has too much power over the country of Lebanon. Anything, ANYTHING they, the different sects that run the government of Lebanon can do to weaken that power from inside is good news for the people of Lebanon.