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1st January 2009
To begin with, we should stop calling it broadly as the Arab-Israeli Conflict. We should recognize that there is a Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a Lebanese-Israeli conflict, a Syrian-Israeli conflict, and so on...
There will be no real and lasting solution before the overhaul of regimes in the region and their real evolution towards a practical form of democracy and people representation. Once that happens, a form of lasting peace can be crafted.
Leaving the rest of the regimes alone and focusing on Lebanon, the same still applies. We need to have a sovereign modern governance system in Lebanon that can then craft its peace with Israel. Our best bet as Lebanese is to focus on that. |