"Plotting the events in Arsal and provoking a response from the locals,
which in turn allows them to claim that Arsal is a hotbed of fundamentalist
jihadists, specifically from the Syrian Jabhat al-Nusra. The objective of all
this is to seal off Arsal and prevent its people from supporting the rebels in
Syria. It justifies Hezbollah’s weapons by saying that there are illegal
hotbeds, which pose security threats outside the areas controlled by Hezbollah.
This will require political action on the basis that there is targeted community
in Lebanon." (thanks Basim)