Pope urges Lebanese to embrace reconciliation and stay in country in crisis - ExBulletin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : " He then emphasized this theme in his speech at the presidential palace, using the word "peace" more than 20 times, without mentioning specific conflicts, including the war between Hezbollah and Israel.
46% : Groups of youth scouts affiliated with Hezbollah waited to welcome the pope along the road in Beirut's southern suburbs, where Iran-backed militants dominate and which Israel pounded during last year's war.
44% : Despite last year's truce, Israel has continued its regular raids on Lebanon, generally claiming it was hitting Hezbollah targets.
43% : " No real reconciliation process was undertaken after Lebanon's civil war from 1975 to 1990, and the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah deepened divisions. - 'Promote peace' - Lebanon rolled out the red carpet and a 21-gun salute for Leo, who was greeted at the airport by children and a marching band while ships in port honked their horns.
35% : Posters of the slain group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, appeared near billboards saluting the pontiff in the region, which Israel struck again last week, killing Hezbollah's military leader.
31% : Since 2019, the country has been ravaged by successive crises, from an economic collapse widely blamed on official mismanagement and corruption, to the devastating Beirut port explosion in 2020, to the recent war between the militant group Hezbollah and Israel - which many Lebanese fear a resumption of.

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