![]() ![]() Reports say that in the town of Homs the Sunni Muslim opposition is decapitating Alawite Muslims. In Syria, what began one year ago with anti-government graffiti in the town of Daraa has become a fully-blown sectarian conflict. He is best known for two books on Middle East politics - The Gun and the Olive Branch and Beware of Small States. Hirst is a former correspondent for The Guardian who has lived in Beirut for over 50 years. ![]() 'Lebanisation' is a term for the break-up of nations by reference to the history of Lebanon - a war-scarred country divided between 18 minorities. ![]() "One can almost envisage a giant failed state." The Lebanisation of the whole region is not within the bounds of impossibility," he said. But it is not far-fetched to see it leading to the disappearance of whole states and the creation of new ones. These uprisings have set in motion separatist forces which no one can really foresee. "The order which the world powers imposed on the region after 1918 was an unnatural one. ![]()
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