The minimum you must know

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun patterned “peace” persuasively at the United Nations in 2025.

The Republic of Lebanon has powerful alliances throughout the region. The country is situated very near a now perhaps entirely resolved two decade conflict in Iraq and Syria. Lebanon therefore use to rely heavily upon diplomacy at the United Nations to save them from proxy conflicts.

NATO-backed Israel has traditionally described Lebanon as an innocent country from which independent militias launched primitive but dangerous missiles at Israel. Isreal responded several times with military incursions.

There’s real hope from all sides and good reason to believe the past won’t be the future. There was a historic peace summit for Israel in October 2025 in Egypt that included Lebanon. Peace, calm and tranquillity also returned to neighboring Syria and Iraq, where sanctions were historically lifted. This is currently resulting in substantial reverse migration into the region, as millions of people who previously fled those countries have begun returning home. Well over a million refugees who fled to abroad have already returned to neighboring Syria and Iraq. It’s conceivable countries throughout the region including Lebanon could enjoy years of substantial peaceful population growth as a result of peace returning to the area.

This author believes the Lebanese government and people would love for peace to develop. They don't want foreign countries attempting to create order there. And many share their view. France has been particularly sympathetic to the Lebanese perspective, having been nearly an earlier colonizing force that created a well integrated and initially successful democracy there. Many in France feel an emotional commitment to Lebanese success as a result. But Lebanon has largely received external support from Muslim countries throughout the region.

Militias in Lebanon are well trained and capable. They have tolerated considerable pressure and destruction. The capital Beirut was largely destroyed several decades ago. And buildings were still being destroyed as recently as a few years ago.

This writer hopes Lebanon is a strong candidate for an Abraham Accords to create peace and fully resolve matters there.

Lebanon reportedly had an internal civil conflict that started in 1975 and was peacefully resolved in 1990.