He also stressed that Hezbollah "will not accept" attempts to force it to disarm, adding that if "the resistance and its environment do not surrender," Lebanon could deteriorate into a situation in which “not one stone will be left upon another, and no one will be safe." Beirut, Lebanon, was widely known as the “Paris of the Middle East,” particularly from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, for its vibrant culture, French-influenced architecture, thriving nightlife, fashion, banking, and cosmopolitan atmosphere, a golden era that ended with the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 and the takeover by Hezbollah a proxy of Iran. The Lebanon that preceded the coming of the PLO in 1975, he fears, would reemerge, and to him that’s a bad thing.
Author: Arutz Sheva
Published at: 2026-01-17 19:53:54
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