No Longer Jewel of Arab World Lebanon was the envy of the Arab world in the 1950s and 1960s. [...] They engaged in serious protests from mid-2019, demanding a complete overhaul of the system and an end to the corrupt inter-elite rule of the country. [...] Changing Leaders Without Changing System While resisting the protestors sternly, the forces of the status quo agreed to the appointment of a new technocratic prime minister, Hassan Diab, in January 2020 to improve the situation, but without necessarily changing the system. [...] The incident’s killing of hundreds, wounding of thousands and making thousands more homeless as well as destroying the entire port at the loss of billions of dollars, plus the elite resistance to reform, caused Diab’s government to resign. [...] The forces of the status quo appear to be well entrenched in and over Lebanon, but so are the forces of change.
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