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How long will the destruction of Lebanon continue? This is madness | Moustafa Bayoumi
Netanyahu’s allegation that Iran controls all of Lebanon is a ploy to stoke another disastrous sectarian civil war there
In 1917, Lt Gen Stanley Maude marched with the British army into Baghdad – then part of the Ottoman empire – with a proclamation. “Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators,” he said.
No one within earshot believed him.
Moustafa Bayoumi is a Guardian US columnist
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