Politics
Saudis Spark Anger in Beirut’s Sectarian Tinderbox
Some in Lebanon worry they will suffer from another foreign policy gone astray.
A poster of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri that reads in Arabic "Your dignity is Lebanon's dignity" on a highway north of Beirut.
Photographer: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
In a neighborhood of Beirut where Sunni Muslims live and work next door to Shiite Hezbollah’s stronghold in the southern suburbs there’s little support for Saudi Arabia’s latest adventure in its proxy war against Iran.
Few believe the kingdom’s denial that it forced Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to resign in a televised address from Riyadh on Nov. 4. They're angry at what they consider a humiliation that made one of their own look like a Saudi puppet.