Perhaps more than any other area in the Middle East. Lebanon has become a gameboard at which competing states and factions plot strategies. on which nonLebanese seek to resolve complex problems which have their origin elsewhere. Lebanon has become the dumping ground for troubles in the Middle East. Certainly. the residents of Zahlemany of whom are refugees from other regions and are without shelter. adequate food or decent health facilitiesdo not want it this way. Neither do the citizens of AshrafiyehEast Beirutwho like their Zahle counterparts. are witnessing the steady destruction of their community with each passing day. As an American of Lebanese descent.
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