With the Middle East in the throes of its most expansive war in decades, Lebanon is once again caught in the crossfire as Israel pursues a renewed air and ground offensive in response to Hezbollah's strikes in support of its Iranian Islamic Republic ally's fight for survival. But the current conflict poses a risk potentially more dire for the Lebanese state than at any point since the 15-year bloody civil war that tore through the nation until 1990. Since then, a precarious power-sharing system

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