SharesAs the balance of power shifts in the Middle East, pressure from Israel and Saudi Arabia may spark a Lebanese civil war. By As`ad AbuKhalilSpecial to Consortium NewsThe U.S. and Saudi Arabia are pushing Lebanon toward civil war. Hariri was alarmed and refused to cooperate, even when he was forced to read a resignation letter that read more like a declaration of civil war. Those who fended off the ISIS/Al-Qa`idah threat from Syria during the civil war were not Lebanese Army troops, but Hizbullah forces. The Saudi regime has not invested — neither economically nor politically — in Lebanon for many years and does not seem to care if Lebanon is pushed toward civil war.