Lebanon is once again at a crossroads. It took an atrocity in a peaceful neighborhood of the capital to convince us that the battle for Damascus has finally reached Beirut. Only the Syrian Social Nationalist Party had the arrogance (or is it stupidity?) to blame Israel for Friday’s bomb blast in the Beirut neighborhood of Ashrafieh that killed Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan and at least seven others. Only a party that that has lost all its political relevance and is still under the sway of the depraved regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his mafia family can still, with a straight face, place all the region’s woes on the doorstep of the Zionist state.
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