Posted on 02/13/2010 2:39:57 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The book “The Haj” lays out the reasons for a lot of Arab craziness/nastiness.
Arabs have literally never produced anything except authoritarian states. This probably has something to do with the fact that most Arabs are Moslems. In Lebanon, where there used to be a very large minority Christian population, the postwar constitution called for power sharing. That broke down in the 1950s, and President Eisenhower sent in troops to restore order and prop up the Lebanese constitution.
The PLO tried to overthrow the Hashemite dynasty in the Kingdom of Jordan (again, an authoritarian state), but was thwarted. The survivors were either rounded up and kicked out, or ran across the border and surrendered to the Israelis (no joke) to avoid annihilation by a pretty pissed-off Jordanian army.
Their next stop (although there had been an earlier presence of “refugees” from “Palestine”) was Lebanon, where a large, heavily armed, criminal enterprise (with help from the Syrians) destabilized the Lebanese polity and it disintegrated. The Syrians then invaded, occupied parts of Lebanon, and finally pushed on to Beirut where they shelled the presidential palace and finished taking control. This followed the Israeli incursion, which drove the militias and the Syrian forces aside in order to eject the PLO from Beirut.
They wound up in Tunisia, but should have wound up stone cold dead.
http://www.lgic.org/en/help_syria.php
Thanks Ernest.
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