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After a week of complete political paralysis because of the absence of Lebanon’s officials, who are currently traveling abroad, and amid an overall escalation in tensions across society, Beirut is set to resume addressing its most pressing obligations on the electoral, economic, security and military levels. Many Lebanese politicians have openly declared that the countdown has begun to a security meltdown if a settlement is not reached.
The last thing Lebanon needed was an attack by kids on four Sunni clerics in Beirut and the city’s southern suburbs on Sunday, March 17, which prompted a wave of riots and roadblocks in most Sunni areas.
