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To: SunkenCiv

lol no victor no vanquished? I guess they don’t like to do research on what actually happened when the lebanese civil war ended. One christian leader was assassinated, another exiled and another sent to jail. The christian presidents power became virtually non existent turning him into a impotent figurehead, the power went to Sunni muslim prime ministers, the parliament got turned from a majority christian(it was afterall a majority christian country upon creation) to 50:50 split(eventhough there are more christian lebanese abroad than total lebanese living in lebanon). The sunni minister was quick to naturalize some 400,000 palestinians(equalling about 15% of the lebanese population and including the very same palestinians that tried to wipe out the christians).

So yes there was a victor and this cunt Brahimi can go f himself.


12 posted on 09/04/2012 2:42:23 PM PDT by hannibaal
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To: hannibaal

The Lebanese civil war began as a consequence of the PLO’s sudden ingress; they’d been ejected from Jordan, where they’d tried to overthrow the regime. It didn’t take long for them to destabilize Lebanon and turn into the throbbing tumor it remains today.

Eventually, in response, the Syrian army rolled in and destroyed the then-latest carefully negotiated and very fragile political settlement as well as independent Lebanon. One of the things they did to that end was shell the presidential palace and murder the Christian president. For almost thirty years Syria held much of the power in Lebanon and undermined any internal political settlement.

The Syrian regime was also behind the Marine barracks bombing.

Subsequent to 1970, the Muzzies in charge in Lebanon were *not* Sunni, they were Shiites, primarily the Hizbollah (Iranian proxies) and Amal (Syrian proxies). Since the mid- to late 1980s, they and the Maronite militias have mostly fought each other (Maronites vs Maronites, Shiites vs Shiites), and only in the past ten years or so have the Sunni militias revived.


13 posted on 09/04/2012 7:44:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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