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Lebanon continues to boil.(Lebanon and Syria relations)

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Lebanon continues to boil. It has seen the amazing spectacle of dueling mass protests in Beirut. A Hezbollah protest drew an estimated 500,000 (reportedly swelled by demonstrators bused in from Syria and the PA), but was quickly trumped by an opposition protest that numbered as many as a million, which would be a quarter of the population. The opposition has successfully gained the high ground of Lebanese nationalism, and begun to draw support from all ethnic and ...

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