Lebanon was known as the "Pear of the Levant", "the Paris of the Med"... the "Switzerland of the East". Now it's a basket case. Terrorised by well-armed murderous religious lunatics.
It was Palestinian terrorists wot done it. In the shape of Hezbollah, the "Party of Allah". Hezbollah invaded Lebanon after being kicked out of Jordan -- a Palestinian state itself! -- for being too radical even for Jordanians.
Hezbollah proceeded to be a parasite on the body of Lebanon, to change its character, to ruin it for Lebanese and foreigners alike.
This is the Iranian IRGC's model. A state within a state. An armed group stronger than the military of the country it parasitizes on. All funded by Iran.
All of which non-US westerners seem happy to go along with.
Iran's ambitions don't stop with the Middle East. They explicitly go to Europe and then to the rest of the west. That's what this war, Operation Epic Fury, is all about. Preventing more Hezbollahs all over the world. More Hamas' all over the world. More Houthis all over the world. More Palestinian Islamic Jihads all over the world.
We don't have to guess or speculate about this. Iran has been saying it clearly for fifty years. It says it still. It will go on saying it until their last breath.
The guy in the Short clip above is Loay Alshareef (Arabic: لؤي الشريف; born 11 November 1982), a UAE-based Saudi-born Egyptian activist who advocates for the Arab world to normalise relations with Israel.
Get that! There are Arabs willing to have better relations with Israel. If you can imagine it, it would be a huge improvement to having a terror state bent on killing everyone that doesn't accept their radical Shia Twelver Islam.
