Lebanon – home to thousands of Syrian refugees – has long suffered at the hands of the Assad family’s 54-year rule.
The fall of President Bashar Assad will not only affect the 24 million Syria ns who lived – and largely suffered – under his brutal rule. Over the border in Lebanon , the impact will be felt, too.
And this arrangement was reciprocal. When Assad’s rule was challenged in 2011 and the country descended into civil war, Hezbollah fighters crossed into Syria to bolster government troops. Syrian rebels chose this moment to strike, knowing that Iran was also stretched too thin with the Israel-Hezbollah war to come to Assad’s aid.
The Syrian government responded with brutality, ordering soldiers to fire at the protesters, while detaining and torturing thousands of men and boys. The Palestinian cause was another unifying factor between the three. The post-1979 revolutionary Iran credo of “death to Israel” is a sentiment shared by the Assad regime and Hezbollah fighters. However, Assad may have been less vocal about it – especially as he attempted to negotiate with Israel over the occupied Golan Heights.
Nevertheless, 54 years of Assad family rule in Syria has left a long trail of destruction in neighboring Lebanon.
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