Reply #57: Speculation at least in part [View All]

[azurnoir]

Hezbollah in a way has little to lose here, they compose about 12% of the Lebanese government. The other 88% is a coalition of Christan, Sunni, and Shia. Hezbollah does not represent all Shia. Hezbollah does however get a good deal of its backing from Syria who in turn feel they have "scores" to settle with both Israel and the current Lebanese government. It is very possible that Hezbollah is acting to a degree on Syria's behalf. Syria (I posted this a couple nights ago) gets to keep its hands clean and butt intact and when all is said and done will most certainly be to there "help their Lebanese brothers", yeah right. Israel will likely get the Golan Heights back and it's back to square one, until next time.