Why is the Lebanese gov't so weak and can not help the citizens of that third rate state?

Answer 1

They are so weak becausethey are a pawn.

They are controlled by Syria. Until a year ago, there were Syrian troops in Lebanon.

Like ALL arab nations, they also have done NOTHING to help the palistinians living in southern lebanon. As a result, Hezbollah has taken over the south and become more powerfull than the governemnt.

Hezbollah and Syria both have a vested interest in keeping Lebanon weak. As soon as they get strenght, they will evict them both (they started evicting Syria last year), so they help keep them week to maintain thier power.

Who needs lebanon if their is peace and prosperity?

Answer 2

Yes.

Syria and Iran give weapons to Hezbollah, no the Lebanese army.

The UN is to blame though. They passed a resolution long ago demanding the disarmement of Hezbollah but once again, the most basic problem that renders most UN resolutions utterly useless, reared it's ugly head.

What good is a resolution when the body ratifying the said resolution has no means to see it to an end?

The UN has no manned force to enforce these resolutions and since nobody in the region was powerful enough or had an interest in disarming Hezbollah, here we are.

Hooray for the United Nations...

Answer 3

it is not weak and not a 3 rate state the problem is that Israel has invaded their country with the help of the us the us is not doing a thing to resolve the matter in the middle east they sell weapons to israel to destroy Lebanon. called who will have the power in the middle east and control oil

Answer 4

No, Israel DIDN'T invade them; they attacked Israel first and Israel has the right to defend itself.

Lebanon is just what it is; a 3rd world country. Most govts. of such nations are either too weak or too powerful.

Answer 5

cuz they broke cuh

Answer 6

The basis of this issue goes back to before the first Arab-Israeli war in May of 1948.

Arab opposition to an Israeli state began after the Balfour Declaration 1917, which supported the idea of a Jewish national homeland. In the 1920s there were anti-Zionist riots in Palestine, after the British mandate government allowed thousands of Jews to immigrate to Palestine from all over the world.

In 1936 an Arab revolt led to a British royal commission that recommended partition (approved by United Nations 1947), but rejected by the Arabs.

When it became clear that the British intended to leave by May 15, leaders of the Yishuv decided (as they claim) to implement that part of the partition plan calling for establishment of a Jewish state. In Tel Aviv on May 14 the Provisional State Council, formerly the National Council, "representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the World Zionist Movement," proclaimed the "establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Medinat Israel (the State of Israel) … open to the immigration of Jews from all the countries of their dispersion."

On May 15 the armies of Egypt, Transjordan (now Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq joined Palestinian and other Arab guerrillas who had been fighting Jewish forces since November 1947. The war now became an international conflict, the first Arab-Israeli War.

The Arabs failed to prevent establishment of a Jewish state, and the war ended with four UN-arranged armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The frontiers defined in the armistice agreements remained until they were altered by Israel's conquests during the Six-Day War in 1967.

The 1956 War

From 1949 to 1956 the armed truce between Israel and the Arabs, enforced in part by the UN forces, was punctuated by raids and reprisals. Among the world powers, the United States, Great Britain, and France sided with Israel, while the Soviet Union supported Arab demands. Tensions mounted during 1956 as Israel became convinced that the Arabs were preparing for war. The nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt’s Gamal Abdal Nasser in July, 1956, resulted in the further alienation of Great Britain and France, which made new agreements with Israel.

On Oct. 29, 1956, Israeli forces, directed by Moshe Dayan, launched a combined air and ground assault into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Early Israeli successes were reinforced by an Anglo-French invasion along the canal. Although the action against Egypt was severely condemned by the nations of the world, the cease-fire of Nov. 6, which was promoted by the United Nations with U.S. and Soviet support, came only after Israel had captured several key objectives, including the Gaza strip and Sharm el Sheikh, which commanded the approaches to the Gulf of Aqaba. Israel withdrew from these positions in 1957, turning them over to the UN emergency force after access to the Gulf of Aqaba, without which Israel was cut off from the Indian Ocean, had been guaranteed.

The 1967 War (The Six-Day War)

After a period of relative calm, border incidents between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan increased during the early 1960s, with Palestinian guerrilla groups actively supported by Syria. In May, 1967, President Nasser, his prestige much eroded through his inaction in the face of Israeli raids, requested the withdrawal of UN forces from Egyptian territory, mobilized units in the Sinai, and closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel. Israel (which had no UN forces stationed on its territory) responded by mobilizing.

The escalation of threats and provocations continued until June 5, 1967, when Israel launched a massive air assault that crippled Arab air capability. With air superiority protecting its ground forces, Israel controlled the Sinai peninsula within three days and then concentrated on the Jordanian frontier, capturing Jerusalem’s Old City (subsequently annexed), and on the Syrian border, gaining the strategic Golan Heights. The war, which ended on June 10, is known as the Six-Day War.

The Suez Canal was closed by the war, and Israel declared that it would not give up Jerusalem and that it would hold the other captured territories until significant progress had been made in Arab-Israeli relations. The end of active, conventional fighting was followed by frequent artillery duels along the frontiers and by clashes between Israelis and Palestinian guerrillas.

The 1973–74 War (The Yom Kippur War)

During 1973 the Arab states, believing that their complaints against Israel were going unheeded (despite the mounting use by the Arabs of threats to cut off oil supplies in an attempt to soften the pro-Israel stance of the United States), quietly prepared for war, led by Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat. On Oct. 6, 1973, the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur, a two-pronged assault on Israel was launched. Egyptian forces struck eastward across the Suez Canal and pushed the Israelis back, while the Syrians advanced from the north. Iraqi forces joined the war and, in addition, Syria received some support from Jordan, Libya, and the smaller Arab states. The attacks caught Israel off guard, and it was several days before the country was fully mobilized; Israel then forced the Syrians and Egyptians back and, in the last hours of the war, established a salient on the west bank of the Suez Canal, but these advances were achieved at a high cost in soldiers and equipment.

Through U.S. and Soviet diplomatic pressures and the efforts of the United Nations, a tenuous cease-fire was implemented by Oct. 25. Israel and Egypt signed a cease-fire agreement in November, but Israeli-Syrian fighting continued until a cease-fire was negotiated in 1974. Largely as a result of the diplomatic efforts of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Israel withdrew back across the Suez Canal and several miles inland from the east bank behind an UN-supervised cease-fire zone. On the Syrian front too, Israeli territorial gains made in the war were given up.
After the war Egyptian and Syrian diplomatic relations with the United States, broken since the 1967 war, were resumed, and clearance of the Suez Canal began. The 1973–74 War brought about a major shift of power in the Middle East and ultimately led to the signing of the Camp David accords.

The 1982 War

In 1978 Palestinian guerrillas, from their base in Lebanon, launched an air raid on Israel; in retaliation, Israel sent troops into S Lebanon to occupy a strip 4–6 mi (6–10 km) deep and thus protect Israel’s border. Eventually a UN peacekeeping force was set up there, but occasional fighting continued. In 1982 Israel launched a massive attack to destroy all military bases of the Palestine Liberation Organization in S Lebanon and, after a 10-week siege of the Muslim sector of West Beirut, a PLO stronghold, forced the Palestinians to accept a U.S.-sponsored plan whereby the PLO guerrillas would evacuate Beirut and go to several Arab countries that had agreed to accept them. Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 1985 but continues to maintain a Lebanese-Christian–policed buffer zone north of its border


Syria’s Invasion of Lebanon

Syrian forces entered Lebanon in 1976, ostensibly as peacekeepers in Lebanon's year-old civil war. After the war ended in 1990, about 40,000 Syrian troops remained, giving Damascus a decisive say in Lebanese politics, according to the AP.
According to the treaty that ended the civil war, Syrian forces were to leave the country, but for more than a decade, a sizeable contingent of troops patrolled Lebanon. Their presence became a major political issue following the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
International pressure and Lebanese anger over the murder grew into protests against the Syrian deployment and prompted the government in Damascus to agree to a withdrawal. The opposition blamed the assassination on the Lebanese government and its Syrian backers, accusations both have denied.
Thousands of Lebanese demonstrated for days in Beirut to down the pro-Syrian government, and U.N. and U.S. pressure intensified on Damascus until it withdrew its army.
Syria gradually pulled out 14,000 troops over the last two months.
With the troop withdrawal, Lebanese allies in the security services also began to depart. Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, often described as the enforcer of Damascus' policy, announced his resignation Monday, and another top security commander left the country with his family, the AP reported.
Gen. Ali Habib, Syria's chief of staff, said at the departure ceremony that Syrian President Bashar Assad decided to pull out his troops after the Lebanese army had been "rebuilt on sound national foundations and became capable of protecting the state."
Habib emphasized that the troop withdrawal did not mean the end to Syrian-Lebanese ties.
"The relations will continue and become stronger at present and in the future," he said, adding, "anyone who things that the history of people can be eliminated by statements made by this or that state is mistaken."
Lebanese army commander Michel Suleiman also vowed continued cooperation between the two countries.
"Together we shall always remain brothers in arms in the face of the Israeli enemy," he said, according to the AP.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has dispatched a team led by Senegalese Brig. Gen. Mouhamadou Kandji to verify Syria's withdrawal in accordance with Security Council resolution 1559.

The bottom line is that Lebanon has been abused, beaten and treated like refuse by Syria, Israel, and other nations in the Middle East as well as by the ‘hidden’ players: Iran, Russia, China, the European Nations, and the USA. Every nation has played a part in the dismembering of Lebanon. Almost all have denied their culpability and even fewer are willing to stand up and help make it right.

In short, Lebanon has not had a chance to recover from the almost 30 years of invasion, annexation, and rape by ALL of its neighbors (either direct or indirect participation). So then in comes Hezbollah the terrorist 'Foreign Legon' for Iran. The start a shooting war and then everybody cries foul when Israel decides to defend itself.

As for it being a third rate nation: it was once the jewel of the Middle East. Note the cedar on its flag. It represents the cedar forests. It was one of the more stable countries prior to 1982.
The world allowed Lebanon to be bombed/invaded/raped into a third rate country.