let's hearfrom kareem chehayeb, a writer for the public source website in beirut.r population is living below the poverty line, and the currency has lost 80% of its value in less than a year. so on top of all of this, this kind of tension for this kind of security crisis that's happening in lebanon will prevent it to stable situation, which the government has unfortunately failed to contain at this time. making all of these problems much harder to solve is lebanon's deeply divided politics. the country recognises 18 religious communities — four muslim, 12 christian, the druze sect and judaism. the three main political offices — president, speaker of parliament and prime minister — are divided among the three biggest communities. the seats in parliament are also divided evenly between christians and muslims and the including druze. and then, there's the role of militia groups, of which the iranian backed hezbollah is the largest. last week, lebanon's neighbour israel said it had thwarted an attempt by hezbollah to infiltrate israeli territory. but a senior israeli o