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Lebanon sues Israel over hummus

Lebanon seeks a legal ruling declaring hummus Lebanese and demanding Israel repay the country for decades of lost revenue for Lebanon by marketing hummus as an Israeli product. Apparently Greece once won a similar case against France over feta cheese.

David Kenner at the FP thinks it won't win the government any points; we will see how much Lebanese are bothered by the government's relying on frivolous lawsuits to maintain its already-precarious legitimacy.

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