This is madness. How long will the destruction of Lebanon continue? | Moustafa Bayoumi

This is madness. How long will the destruction of Lebanon continue? | 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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