Israel's latest invasion of Lebanon occurred three years after the US assault on Iraq, and was probably intended to occupy southern Lebanon as far as the Litani river. Hezbollah gave the IDF its worse ass whipping to date, and the plan for the New Middle East moved on the Libya. Now, we're back to fragmenting Syria and Lebanon as Iraq dissolves into three separate sub-states.As far back as the early 1950s Israel was making incursions into Lebanon to steal topsoil and shooting Lebanese farmers who protested.
And the rivers of Lebanon have always been a problem for the Israelis.
Soon the world will be presented with a new state in the New Middle East: "Free" Kurdistan, garrisoned by NATO troops with Israel and Turkey protecting its southern and northern borders.
An "arc of instability" will stretch from the eastern Mediterranean to the Caspian sea; arms merchants and oil companies will reap extravagant profits before reaping the whirlwind.
The oil majors won't risk the development of oil infrastructure in Kurdistan unless there is peace and stability.