Lebanese Army Shuns Israel, Hezbollah Fight to Avert Civil War

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Lebanese Army Shuns Israel, Hezbollah Fight to Avert Civil War

July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Lebanon is keeping its army away from the battlefront between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters because it lacks the firepower to sway the conflict and fears it may spark a civil war by intervening.

The Lebanese army, which split when the country was plunged into civil war in 1975, was reunited in 1990 from religious factions including Christians and Muslims who previously fought one another. Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group, controls two of 24 cabinet posts and has 14 of the 128 seats in parliament.

``The Lebanese army won't disarm Hezbollah,'' President Emile Lahoud told reporters in Beirut yesterday. ``Disarming Hezbollah by force may lead to a civil war.''

Stripping the ``Party of God'' of its weapons is Israel's main condition for a cease-fire to end fighting that has left at least 405 Lebanese and 51 Israelis dead since July 12. Israel says it will keep pounding Hezbollah targets in Lebanon until the group is driven from the border to a distance at which it can no longer launch rocket attacks against Israeli cities.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_g3P_30yuk4&refer=home

[Solo_in_MD]

1. They also need to watch the colabortion with Hezbollah as well

That is why Israel destroyed all their costal radar

[wellst0nev0ter]

2. So Those Who Blame Lebanon For Hezbollah

prefer to see renewed civil war? I guess neocons would love to see chaos, no matter what form it takes.