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Syria's Struggle Is Now Lebanon's Struggle

Lebanon's political stability and instability have always depended on external key powers; today, the effect of the Syrian crisis, is no different.
A Lebanese army soldier is seen atop his tank as an ambulance travels past in Tripoli May 20, 2013. Three people have been killed and about 40 wounded in two days of fighting in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, security sources said on Monday, as sectarian violence spilled over from the civil war in Syria.   REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) - RTXZTWK

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, asked for comment on his disappointment on the failure to reach an agreement on a new electoral law after so many attempts and bridging proposals were made, is reported to have said that he thought there could be a Lebanese Doha.

This is to suggest an inter-Lebanese agreement like the one reached in Doha, Qatar in 2008, but in Beirut this time to avert the dangerous crisis looming in the horizon. The outcome of the 2008 agreement was engineered by the key regional power holders or patrons of the different Lebanese factions, in direct and indirect ways.

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