From UPI:WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Calm in Lebanon surrounding the June election is eroding as Beirut struggles to form a new government amid renewed border skirmishes with Israel.
The Western-backed March 14 slate secured a victory in the June 7 parliamentary contest over the opposition March 8 coalition, which includes lawmakers with the Lebanese Hezbollah.
The period leading up to the elections was rife with political skirmishes but few reports of violence. While Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri both made promises of unity, opposition in Beirut is intensifying due in part to external allegiances, writes David Schenker, a fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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My Comment: Lebanon's history has always been one of religious and ethnic warfare. The fact that open warfare has not happened is an anamoly in itself.
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