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Lebanon
Land of the Cedars
Lebanon is a small country
at the Eastern cost of the Mediterranean Sea. The Nature of Lebanon, being
distinguished from mostly desert-countries around, along with the impact
of the civilizations that inhabited Lebanon through thousands of years
reached its peak in the second half of the 2Oth century. Prosperity,
Free-Economy and the “Most Civilized and
Democratic” country of the region were titles of Lebanon
then.
However, this did not last. The major Arab-Israeli conflict has found
in Lebanon a landing which to move the fight. Syrian, Palestinian and
Israeli forces overtook the Lebanese territory moving their fight, since
the 1970’s to the neutral country that was too small to defend herself.
Arms and funding were being funneled into Lebanon while several countries,
Syria, Iran, Israel, Lybia and Palestinians were sponsoring guerillas
trying to take place in a battle that is not on their own land. Great
destruction and hundreds of thousands of casualties (mostly Lebanese civilians)
transpired in Lebanon. All the while, relatively minor events were going
on the neighboring countries: Syria, Jordan Egypt, Israel and Palestinian
territories. The UN Security Council issued several resolutions regarding
Lebanon which were issued, but never enforced.
Lebanon Now:
1.The Syrian army occupies most of Lebanon, including
the main airport. It harbors and all vital agencies with 30,000 troops
and about 20,000 intelligence agents . Syria
detains hundreds of Lebanese in its prisons without charges, and refuses
to implement UN Security Council resolution No. 52O that calls for pullout
of non-Lebanese troops from Lebanon.
2.Palestinians-There are approximately 400,000+ ungoverned
Palestinians still living in camps in Lebanon and harboring armed guerrillas
and without any regard for the Lebanese people or country
3.Israeli troops withdrew from the area of south Lebanon
on May, 2000, which they had occupied for 22 years. Israel holds about
twenty Lebanese in its prisons without charges. .
4.The Lebanese Authorities are paralyzed by the Syrian
régime who control a proxy government in Lebanon terrorizing and
brutalizing the Lebanese people.
5.The Lebanese people are being forced to leave their
country due to economical disaster caused by the political crisis and
Syrian illegal labor-force in Lebanon. Approximately 35% of the Lebanese
population left the country since 1990, when Syrian troops completely
captured the capital Beirut..
Lebanon, the country that used to be called “Switzerland of the East”, experiences now Ruined Economy, Pro-Syrian Totalitarian Regime and major Violations of Human Rights
