It’s hard to make sense of what being said in today’s MSM articles. What exactly happened in Lebanon?
Pf, Syria and Israel clashing over poor Lebanon. No anarchy to be seen here…
Something very mundane. My guess it that Brian either does not know how governments are formed in a parliamentarian system, or that Hezbollah is a political party with actual seats in the parliament and therefore overestimated the importance of the news.
Correct on the latter. I wasn’t aware that Hezbollah had anything to do with the government. My thoughts were that Hezbollah is some kind of militant group who took down the government, but you’re saying they just got a majority of politicians in Lebanon to vacate their seats for the meantime or something? I may have misread the article.
Lebanon has been acting as an Iranian proxy state for the past ten years, with Hezbollah fighting a dirty campaign against Israel on Iran and Syria’s behalf so those countries can avoid direct conflict. It comes as no surprise that an extremist Shia group of fighters can bring down a government based on the inclusion of all sects of the fractured Lebanese society. I reckon civil war will ensue in Lebanon within the next 10-20 years. I’ll be watching this with interest though.
It doesn’t even have to be a mayority. If the government goes from 55% support in parliament to 45% support it means the government falls and a new coaliton has to be agreed on or new elections are held.
As the article said in Lebanon you had a “national unity government” composed of all the mayor parties with well above 50% of seats in the parliament combined. But as Hezbollah and the Christians behind Michael Aoun exited it, it brought it bellow the 50%.