Beirut, Lebanon – Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm the pro-Iran Shia movement Hezbollah by force are stoking internal tensions, analysts have told Al Jazeera.
Israel is leaning on this division as a strategy to try to pit communities against one another, they say. The strategy is working, they add, pointing to a recent series of sectarian and political provocations.
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“It’s not a byproduct [of the war]. They know very well what they’re doing,” Michael Young, a Lebanon expert at the Carnegie Middle East Center, told Al Jazeera.…
