Thus has the Holy Father's visit to Lebanon been described. By Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah.
Tomorrow has been declared a public holiday by the Government headed by the legendary Maronite General, Michel Aoun, and including Hezbollah, to which the Christians now look as their last line of defence. People whose view of Lebanon is stuck in the 1980s are precisely that: stuck in the 1980s. They often are about a lot of things.
Whereas the other side, favoured by those against whom Hezbollah is defending Christian Lebanon, is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia. That Kingdom, like Turkey and Qatar, is funding, arming, and engaging directly in, the Islamist insurrection in and invasion of Syria, to the terror of the Christian population there. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have told their citizens not to visit Lebanon. Mercifully, Benedict XVI is neither Saudi not Qatari.
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