There is a long history to that, with the “South Lebanese Army”, a predominantly Christian force who acted as Israel’s proxies during the occupation (1982-1999). They had to face the music when Israel left. Some left Lebanon, others made an accomodation with the new regime, as Hezbollah judged it wise to realise that “time past is time forgotten.”
There is still a significant Christian population in south Lebanon. Both they and the Shia majority in that area are alarmed (if not terrified) by the savage militias fanning out of Syria.
However the leading Maronite politicians in Lebanon have committed themselves to “regime change” in Syria, and if you look at their press, they are always trying to imagine that the atrocities in Syria are merely the work of a few extremists. I predict this fantasy will not last, and they will change that policy. They have to.
I don’t discount your history, because there is truth in it. None the less, I have to come to terms with Hezbollah ascendance, and past skirmishes with Israel in the midst of Southern Lebanon dynamics.
The South of Lebanon was armed to the teeth against Israel. That took place, as people in Lebanon turned a blind eye.
I am continually amazed at the groups of Islamic adherents who feign apprehension regarding the things other Islamicists do.
Beheadings are not uncommon. The stoning of women who are raped is not uncommon. None the less these types of reports continue to come out of the Middle-East, as if there are good and bad sides of Islam.
Where are the condemnations of beheading, and what are those condemnations based on? The members of Islam have signed on to that sort of thing for hundreds of years.
Now we’re supposed to believe that some don’t approve? What is that based on?
These people are either confused themselves, or confused about the fact that the West knows them for exactly who they are.
I wish this weren’t true, but I am unable to judge this it isn’t.