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By Micah Halpern
Wednesday August 25, 2010 I've Been Thinking: Ever since it became a modern state, Lebanon has been like a powder keg ready to explode. Divisions in Lebanon run deep. Civil wars are commonplace. Capital city Beirut is extremely volatile - Shiites and Sunnis kill one another with abandon. When Lebanon is quiet it is an eerie quiet. It means that tensions are there, covered over, hiding beneath the surface. Yesterday there was a clash between Shiites and Sunnis in a mixed neighborhood in Beirut. This was no small shoot. At least three people were killed and many more were wounded. Machine guns and RPGs were the weapons used. RPG stands for rocket propelled grenade. RPGs are the weapons Hezbollah uses to shoot tanks. This is serious destructive fire power. This is a serious situation. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=halpern%2C+micah 4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts
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