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Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110003028
Syrian Occupation Suffocates Lebanon, and the World Shrugs
(Wall Street Journal)Claudia Rosett - From the Arab world, so full of dictators professing deep concern over democratic Israel's dealings with the Palestinians, there comes not a croak of indignation that despotic Syria continues to occupy Lebanon. There has been no serious effort to lever Syria out of Lebanon, or to end Syria's support for Hizballah - whose terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in the 1980s, and today carry out assaults on Israel and threaten the U.S. itself.