Against all odds, Lebanon keeps strife at bay
Lebanon, despite its dark and bloody history of sectarian conflict, has proven surprisingly able to absorb shockwaves from the civil war in neighboring Syria. In an effort to prevent a Shia-Sunni conflict from igniting and destroying the already precarious security situation, the Shiite Hezbollah party and the largely Sunni Future Movement have been engaging in dialogue – surprising those who may have expected Lebanon’s mosaic-like society to shatter into its hundreds of sectarian pieces.
Source: Michael Young for the National
Unmaking violence with more violence: on military humanitarian intervention in Syria
As the world struggles to find a solution to the Daesh problem, military humanitarian intervention in Syria via airstrikes presents a serious moral quandary. Striking enemies in urban war zones that Daesh has infiltrated not only takes civilian lives along with Daesh lives, but also destroys much-needed urban infrastructure in a particularly destabilizing aspect of warfare known as “urbicide,” or murder of the city itself.
Source: Your Middle East
Libya: A Story Forgotten
On the subject of military humanitarian intervention, the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya did not bring peace and freedom to Libyans but rather violence and war that continues to this day. Meanwhile, Libyan civilians continue to suffer and die, ignored by governments both in their own country and around the world.
Source: Middle East Revised
