Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah: The Unholy Alliance and Its War on Lebanon - Brossura

Deeb, Marius

9780817916657: Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah: The Unholy Alliance and Its War on Lebanon

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ISBN 10: 0817916652 ISBN 13: 9780817916657

Casa editrice: Hoover Inst Pr, 2013

Marius Deeb, an Oxford-educated authority on Middle Eastern politics and history, in a sequel to his authoritative Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process, shows how the Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah axis has tried, through assassination, terrorism and force, to undermine Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution that triumphed in March 2005. The Cedar Revolution began in September 2000 as a protest movement led by Patriarch Sfair, the head of the Maronite Catholic Church, and culminated on March 14, 2005, when 1.5 million demonstrated peacefully in Beirut calling for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and for a free, democratic, and pluralistic polity.

No wonder that the Syria, Iran and Hezbollah axis has regarded the Cedar Revolution as its implacable enemy, for the Cedar Revolution is the antithesis of the Islamic revolution in Iran that demonized America and opened the floodgates of terrorism. In contrast, the Cedar Revolution is a nonviolent, democratic, and pro-Western revolution and thus an antidote to militant Islam and terrorism.

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Marius Deeb has a doctorate from Oxford University and teaches Middle Eastern politics at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

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Marius Deeb, an Oxford-educated authority on Middle Eastern politics and history, in this sequel to his authoritative Syria’s Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process, details the continued onslaught on Lebanon by the Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah axis, which uses assassinations, terrorism, and force, despite the triumph of the nonviolent and democratic Cedar Revolution that ended the Syrian occupation of Lebanon and won free parliamentary elections in 2005 and 2009. The chances for Lebanon to remain free, pluralistic, and open to the world are greater than ever as the Syria, Iran and Hezbollah axis falters with the inevitable demise of the Assad regime in Syria.

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