Lebanon’s Ahmad al-Assir Phenomenon | As‘ad Abukhalil
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The Assir movement may have run its course, but regardless of the outcome of the current showdown in Saida, it won’t go away. It is part of the acute sectarian tensions and conflicts in the region that Saudi Arabia and Qatar have unleashed, all at the behest of the US-Israeli alliance, in order to switch public hostilities from Israel to Iran and the Shia “crescent” – to use the term that Jordan’s king used in a speech that was written for him by one of his many American advisers.
Assir – as obnoxious and irritating (to many) as he is – won’t go away. Somebody else will take his place, and if he survives this showdown, he may easily re-emerge and in a time of civil war he can be quite useful for Qatar and Saudi Arabia in their war on Hezbollah.