Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Libanização" in Portuguese language version.
In allusion to the protracted and bitter civil war in Lebanon, fear of Lebanisation on the northwest border of Pakistan is mentioned in the Manchester Guardian Weekly of 5 January 1986, p. 6; Norman Podhoretz warned of a Lebanization of Palestine, if such a state came into existence, in The New York Times of 3 September 1993, p. A9; the Lebanonization of Yugoslavia is mentioned in The New York Times of 1 November 1987, p. 14; Mapam, an Israeli political party, has warned of the possible Lebanonization of Israel; “‘Lebanonization’ is the term both Israelis and Palestinians are using for what seems to be a shift toward low-level guerrilla warfare [. . .]” (John Kifner, “Tale of Two Uprisings: This Time, the Palestinians Have Territory, and Guns,” The New York Times, 18 November 2000, p. A6).
However, the Israeli withdrawal was followed by a permanent state of civil war among the religious, ethnic and political factions in Lebanon. As a result, Lebanonization took on a more negative meaning and became a phrase to describe a failed state that keeps struggling with religious and other disputes.
