Deal or No Deal - Lebanon

June 2008
An appearance of peace has returned to Lebanon; but as Hezbollah grows in power, political tensions are becoming palpable. Has the country finally entered a long-term settlement, or are we witnessing the preliminaries to a new conflict?
Thanks to massive financial and military backing from Iran and Syria, Hezbollah has emerged as a powerhouse over the past years. Keen to display its power, it has repeatedly had the upper hand in skirmishes with government forces. A traditional enemy of Israel, Hezbollah has recently shifted its attention to Lebanon. Sunnis and supporters of the government have now become terrified to speak out against it: 'I doubt the Lebanese president can do anything about them because they see themselves as stronger than the state. They are a state within a state', says a leader of the Future Movement. Lebanese society is divided between pro-Hezbollah and pro-government factions, which is most visible in the hostility between Sunnis and Shias but has lately spread to other communities. With the 2009 elections looming, the Christian vote has become a vital political battleground. And in some ways the split emerging among them is more significant than the Sunni-Shia divide. Militias are forming in the suburbs of Beirut and tensions keep rising. Is this the build-up to a new civil war?

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[JesusEinstein]

Hey here's a suggestion for Journeyman Pictures.

DISABLE the fucking Windows notification sounds on the computers that compile/upload your videos......

[andrea22borman]

Hezbollah milita did not "take over Beirut" or cause last years street riots.The riots and unrest in Lebanon was caused by civillians,who are unhappy with the government.This videos information is NOT correct. Andrea.

[YehiaYMS]

FUCK HIZBULLAH!!! long live FREE SUNNIS AND PALESTANIANS!!!



[azkeyz]

It's almost laughable that muslims would think their enemies are christians

that makes it possible for their real enemies to slip in.

[azkeyz]

christian support for hezbola is meaningless because christianity is a roman pagan religion.

[lebanesebarbie32]

This is so bias and ridiculous 

[maximus0307]

i support hizbollah, but if they ever turn againts fellow lebanese wich they wont, i will stop supporting them, also if they try to make lebanon a islamic state or even just the south....

[TheGypsyPolitics]

@MementoExpose Where was the documentary for when they interviewed a Christian in Hezbollah? I thought it was BBC or something...does anyone know?

[Joniversity]

Islam will fail, and Lebanon will rise again from the ashes of Islam's murderous ideology.

[LSRochon]

Palestinian Right of Return

watch?v=g4OXP6Jy49I

[nluv111]

to hell with the bible, the torat and the quran... hail to human species and its dignity and wellfare.

all the above are mere imaginations of the early humans.

But if they weren't i would like to ask "god" who is omnipotent and ominiscent one day why(this why as all "whys" pertinent to any subject will probably instigate a lot of phylosophical way-of-god mystecism which lucidly denotes human's most archenemy, ignnorance)did it banish us the miracles that we need today more than any other tim

[chadilebnan]

This Doc. is full of shit..It is very biased and doesn't mirror the reality in Lebanon..It feels like pro- US (Israel) propoganda..