Beirut seems on the verge of exploding. The escalating political and security developments have reached a critical stage. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday [Feb. 27] that “a few days may separate us from sedition.” Everything indicates that the May 7, 2008 events may be repeated.
The tension in Lebanon has been steadily rising for the past several weeks. But in the last few days, tension has reached a critical stage. The two sides of the confrontation are the Shiite camp led by Hezbollah on the one hand and the Sunni Salafist fundamentalist camp on the other. Yet the confrontation between them is the result of what’s going on outside the Lebanese context. There is the Syrian civil war, the regional and international arm-twisting with Iran, and the Sunni-Shiite war throughout the Islamic world.
