"The Turks Are Back…
Walid Choucair Al-Hayat - 08/09/06
Political analysts inside and outside Lebanon, along with foreign diplomats and Western experts in the region's affairs betray a tendency to speak of a similarity between the events that have been taking place in Lebanon for some time now (which culminated in Israel's open war against Lebanon) and the old history of struggles in this small country since before the birth of Christ and in later centuries, particularly the 19th century, when the 'oriental' crisis erupted during the Ottoman Empire. Then there was the deluge of foreign, particularly European, armies on Lebanon, ushering a change in the regional map and leading to a century of French, British, and other European mandates in the region, before receding during the wars of independence when new areas of influence were carved in the Middle East."
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