Mass Hizbullah demonstrations continue in Beirut, calling for the government to step down and to grant Hizbullah a veto on all political decisions. Meanwhile, the Lebanese government accuses the Hizbullah leadership of planning a coup. On the other side of the globe, the “Iraq Study Group” in Washington has called for US negotiations with Syria, which would likely lead to a return of a greater Syrian role in Lebanon and a blocking of the investigation into the Hariri and Gemayel assassinations.
Jay Gupta, an editorial associate of Telos, lives and teaches in Beirut. Russell Berman, editor of Telos, teaches at Stanford. We make this exchange available as an invitation to open up the discussion of the political crisis of the moment and the repressive character of Hizbullah.
