The minimum you must know

The Republic of Lebanon has powerful alliances throughout the region. But the country is counting on diplomacy at the United Nations to save them from a proxy conflict. NATO-backed Israel sees Lebanon as an innocent country from which independent militias sometimes launch primitive missiles at Israel. This has been going on for decades - terrorizing the Israeli population -but hasn't taken many lives. Isreal responds militarily from time to time including with incursions.

This author believes the Lebanese government and people would love for peace to develop. They don't want Israel attempting to create order there. France is sympathetic to the Lebanese perspective, having been an earlier colonizing force that created a well integrated and initially successful democracy there. France feels an emotional commitment to Lebanese success as a result. But usually Lebanon receives support from Muslim countries throughout the region.

The Lebanese population are frequently encroached on by Iranian-backed militias on one hand and NATO-backed Israeli forces on the other, including recently. Some people have fled to surrounding countries, such as Cyprus. More have remained there.

Militias in Lebanon are very well trained and capable, yet they have barely taken any lives abroad. They have behaved consistently with the morality of the peaceful Islamic faith. They have had to tolerate what Lebanese feel was disproportionate destruction in response. The capital Beirut was largely destroyed several decades ago. And newspaper reports indicate there were buildings bombed around the country over the past few years. So the militias argue to the Lebanese that they are their defending force. The integrated Christian and Muslim government recently said that they reserve the right to finally defend themselves far more forcefully, unless diplomacy creates peace at the United Nations.

The Foreign Minister of Iran patterned "peace" on CNN earlier this year, and said at the United Nations General Assembly that the Lebanese sincerely hope for peace. Perhaps Abraham Accords could save every nation involved from one another.

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