They say that to know Lebanon you have to know the south, but they should add that to know the south, your best bet is to hitch a ride on the back of a UN convoy. Even in the best of times, southern Lebanon is as fraught with peril as a Jerry Bruckheimer flick. Hizbollah’s staunchest support is in the south’s tiny villages, while the areas that surround the border on all sides - Shebaa Farms, the Golan Heights, the Palestinian Territories - do a good job of answering the question, “Where do hope and diplomacy go to suffer a slow, agonizing death?” In the wake of last summer’s war, which reduced much of the south to rubble, the UN all but set up the General Assembly in the winding souqs of Tyre. You see
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