Word: beirutization
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...Baghdad burns, Hizballah is setting Beirut on fire. And the outcome of the struggle in Lebanon will have as much or more significance than what happens in Iraq...
...Last week the Lebanese army failed to stop Hizballah from closing down Beirut and much of the rest of Lebanon. The Shi'ite organization made sure everyone knows it can take Beirut, historically a Sunni city, whenever it wants. The rioting that followed will be to Hizballah's benefit, since it thrives on chaos...
...Lebanon's political crisis has slowly intensified since last December when the Hizballah-led opposition launched its campaign to unseat the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. A general strike earlier in the week had turned violent, with rival Christian factions battling north of Beirut, while Sunni government supporters and Shi'ite partisans of the opposition fought each other with stones and clubs...
...1970s, rural poverty and incessant cross-border hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants operating from south Lebanon spurred tens of thousands of Shi'ites to migrate to the slums of southern Beirut, dubbed the "belt of misery," bringing them into contact with the city-dwelling Sunnis...
...Saudis has also fueled considerable speculation that a face-saving compromise may be in the works end the political crisis in Lebanon. But as Thursday's unscripted surge of sectarian violence demonstrated, a political deal may come too late to cool the seething passions on the streets of Beirut...