1.0 link 212602 <![CDATA[Lebanon's Election is Obama's First Post-Muslim/Arab World Speech Victory]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ray-hanania/lebanons-election-is-obam_b_212602.html As the smoke clears in Lebanon's sectarian elections, and the two major factions appear to be where they began, the real winner may in fact be President Barack Obama. Did his speech last week to the Arab World impact Lebanon's election results?

In fact, only one seat changed hands between the Hezbollah-Aoun coalition and the Western-back coalition of Saad Hariri, the son of the assassinated former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Hariri's coalition called March 14 won 71 seats, one more than...

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