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Editorial For a long time it's been an open secret in Lebanon, although it continues to raise eyebrows, and cause extreme puzzlement. It's the following: a series of countries - Iran, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel, France, and the US, for example - intervene in Lebanon. The players come and go, changing slightly, but this is "great secret" that isn't so secret. The problem is when it becomes an obsession, and an excuse. Perhaps our geography is partly to blame. If we were located another 100 or 200 kilometers north, we might face a different set of problems, and less interference. But we are where we are, and for much of the last 150 years or so, it's been the eye of the storm, but not a calm place. We've experienced colonialism, the two world wars, the Cold War, and we're still here. And the intervention in our affairs... [read full story]
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