Is This Religious Cleansing In Lebanon?

It sure looks like it. Why are mostly Shiite Muslim areas under ferocious attack?

Nine days of powerful Israeli air attacks have reduced most of Beirut’s vast Shiite Muslim suburbs to uninhabitable rubble and left a smoldering hole in Hezbollah’s urban heartland.

The militant Islamist group’s spokesman, Hussein Naboulsi, led foreign reporters Thursday through a maze of dangling electrical wires, smoking ruins and charred remnants of the lives of 500,000 Lebanese who once called the capital’s southern suburbs home.

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