To a large extent it can. Israel has been sabotaging its neighbors since its inception. The long-term goal of a large portion of the Israeli elite is to depopulate the entire Levant to open up space for Greater Israel. They will settle the land with orthodox and chasidic Jews who breed like rabbits and have explosive growth rates and a level of ethnocentrism and fanaticism that is unparalleled by any group on the face of the earth. The same phenomenon is going on in America BTW, with large swathes of NY and NJ threatened by unstoppable, roachlike chasidic expansion. Just look up Lakewood, NJ. It's alarming shit.

Speaking of Lebanon, another factor that plays a role in its sorry state is the fact that it's a nonviable multicultural entity with no religious or ethnic unity. Lebanon shows us how a Muslim minority in a Christian country can quickly become a majority through a combination of higher birth-rates, intimidation tactics and civil war. The Lebanese diaspora is overwhelmingly Christian BTW, mostly people who escaped persecution by the emerging Moslem majority. They also tend to be based. Lebanese Christian money plays an important role on the identitarian French right-wing for example.