Lebanon and Syria
The resignation of the government is Lebanon is being hailed as a "boost for democracy" Reports describe Beirut as a sea of excitement. ABC News and others are reporting that Syria is about to announce its withdrawl from Lebanon. How wonderful it would be if Beirut could emerge from its thirty years of chaos with the start of the 1975 civil war.
Even good change can cause turmoil. David Hirst, writing in the guardian, wonders whether the upheaval threatends to destabilize Syria and turn it into another iraq: "After the example of elections, however flawed, in occupied iraq and Palestine, has come this new, unscheduled outbreak of popular self-assertion in a country [Lebanon] where a sister Arab state, not an alien occupier, is in charge."
For the latest news, you can turn to the Guardian's special report on Syria and iraq. To jump in the fray, you can turn to the Nonviolence Board's thread on the resignation of the Lebanese government
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