it looks like arab governments
concern over what has happened in tunisia has crowded out some of the attention they would otherwise devote to the
political crisis in lebanon. which i guess makes sense. the leaders can imagine a tunisian scenario happening to them whereas lebanon's current crisis is more of the product of its parliamentary-based system, its internal factionalization, and the involvement of an international tribunal that are more particular to that one country.
still, it is a little odd. the lebanon story is chock full of their usual favorite to obsess about: sectarianism, interference by the west in the form of the international tribunal investigating the hariri killing, iranian influence, and, of course, israel implicitly lurking in the background (or at least viewed to be lurking). tunisia raises none of those things. all it raises is the security of their own grip on power, the biggest obsession of all.
