The Lebanese cities of Tyre and Sidon are places where Jesus walked, according to the Gospels. In Mark 7:24-29 and in Matthew 15:21-28, meek and mild Jesus described the Phoenicians, then neighbors of the Jews, as "dogs" to their Jewish masters and said that he came only for the children of Yahweh (Jews) and not for their dogs (the Lebanese Phoenicians). Given that qualifying someone as a "dog" in near eastern semitic cultures was, and still is, a brazen demeaning insult, I finally realized that Jesus was a rabid Jewish supremacist, and I decided to quit the church and lost any faith in any religion. The Christian religion itself was initially a rebellious Jewish sect that undermined the Roman Empire by converting it to Christianity. If you can convince people to turn the other cheek, love their enemies, and care nothing for the morrow, you'd have succeeded in domesticating and taming them by making them refrain from fighting against you.
Those who have argued with me over Jesus's racist comments to the Phoenician woman in southern Lebanon say things like, "Jesus used the term dog in an endearing way as one would do speaking of a cute pet", or "this is only one passage out of many where Jesus declares his mission as a universal one to all of humanity", etc. We either believe every word in the "holy" texts or we don't believe any of it. Religious texts are not a restaurant menu where one picks and chooses à la carte what one likes, and ignores what one dislikes.
Lebanon has been in turmoil ever since the Arabs forced it (1969 Cairo Accord) to become the only open Arab war front against Israel, when the Arab League coerced the Lebanese government to cede its sovereignty to the PLO over its territory south of the Litani river so that Arafat could "liberate" Palestine. The cowardly Arab countries (Egypt, Syria, Jordan) that lost all their wars against Jewish Israel and violently denied their own Palestinians the ability to "liberate" Palestine from their own borders - as well as their oily bankers and weapons providers (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya...) - found in partly Christian Lebanon another non-Muslim "alien" to seek revenge from. The Lebanese government was forced to withdraw its armed forces from the area and has not returned there ever since, thanks to the Muslims of Lebanon who chose to be the village idiots of the Arab world and fight where no Arab dared to fight anymore. After the PLO was evicted from Lebanon by the Israeli invasion of 1982, it was immediately replaced by the Hezbollah terror militia created by the recently (1979) fabricated Islamic Republic of Iran. Hezbollah has since wreaked havoc in the south, provoking deadly wars with Israel and continues denying the lebanese armed forces and government any presence in the area.
Needless to say that pretty much for similar reasons, the Arabs granted Baathist Syria control over the Syrian Lebanese border from which the Lebanese army has been evicted. Syrian illegal migrants travel freely across the border, smuggling goods, mercenaries, weapons and drugs and breeding rampant lawlessness and criminality. These illegal migrants pretend to be "refugees" escaping from Assad, when in fact they constitute Assad's new army of terror and occupation. After militarily and politically occupying Lebanon for 30 years thanks to American treachery (Kissinger's 1974 agreement granting Assad dominion over Lebanon in exchange for selling the Golan to Israel, then George H W Bush and James Baker the Turd surrendered the last pocket of free Lebanese resistance to the Syrians in 1990), the Syrian army was expelled in 2005 by an angry population after the Syrian-sponsored assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri by Syria's proxy Hezbollah operatives.
Now you know why Lebanon has been in a nightmarish meltdown for the past 50 years. It's a country without governance, without the basic infrastructure of a modern country, whose armed forces are just a glorified police force that is denied its primary mission of protecting the country's borders, and whose constitutional democracy is violated by every jackass country on earth, including the US that has supported both Israel's and Syria's rapes, invasions and occupations.
But more à-propos to our current nightmare in the south, there is something going on that can be traced back to somewhere circa 900 BC. The Bible tells us in detail that King Hiram of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre was a friend of King David of Jerusalem. The Phoenician-Canaanite city of Tyre was a commercial and political superpower running a large trading empire across the Mediterranean, including north Africa (the Tyrian colony of Carthage), coastal Spain on both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, the Italian peninsula with Sardinia and the Tyrrhenian Sea, and well into the north Atlantic and the British Isles. Jerusalem on the other hand had just being settled by the Hebrews after their bloody ethnic cleansing of the southern Canaanites out of biblical Palestine, an exploit their fake descendants are repeating today in Palestine. Luckily for the northern Canaanites of the Phoenician realm, Yahweh appears to have told his Hebrew thugs to spare Lebanon, though many of these primitive desert bastards contend that Yahweh gave them the entire area from the Nile to the Euphrates.
As you should know - and speak up without fear - the Torah-Old Testament is full of fictional garbage, but the story pertaining to us here is probably one of the least fictional because it includes facts and numbers, without any bullshit miracles like frog rains, ocean-splittings, or 100-year old spinsters getting knocked up by angels. We read in 2 Samuel 5:11: "And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees, carpenters and masons and they built a palace for David". So King David must have asked the powerful King Hiram of the Lebanese city of Tyre to build him a palace, which means that David, like his filthy nomadic Hebrews of the time, still lived in tents and did not have the technology and know-how to build solid structures like the Phoenicians did.
In 2 Samuel 7:2, we also read that David said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of Yahweh remains in a tent.” In other words, the ark of the Covenant was also left sitting miserably in a tent stinking of of goat and camel hair and manure, while David lived in a lavish house made of fragrant Lebanese cedar wood.
Later, when David's son Solomon became king, we read the following (excerpts) in 1 Kings 5:
2 And Solomon sent word to Hiram, 3 “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God ....5 And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’ 6 Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message that you have sent to me. I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber. 9 My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.”... 12 And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
13 King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft. 15 Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, 16 besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work. 17 At the king's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. 18 So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal [The Lebanese Phoenician city of Byblos] did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
Fast forward to 2024 and the 5-decades-long nightmare of Lebanon's south. The expansionist colonialist Zionists are in all likelihood eyeing stealing the Lebanese south and its two cities of Tyre and Sidon, where the majority is Shiite Muslim and forcibly affiliated with Hezbollah whose nefarious activities in that region are the perfect pretext for the Zionists of Israel to steal the territory. But as long as the Lebanese state, founded in 1920 as the Greater Lebanon by the Maronites who are the christianized Phoenicians, continues to claim Tyre and Sidon as part of historic Phoenician Lebanon, the pretext of Hezbollah is insufficient for Israel to steal the land. The southern Lebanon region of Tyre and Sidon must somehow be severed officially from the Lebanese state in order for Israel to steal it "legally".
That explains why Israel and the US have always preferred that Hezbollah, rather than the Lebanese state, retains control over the south. In 2000, When Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon, it could have coordinated with, and transferred control to, the Lebanese government and the international UNIFIL force stationed there. Instead, it handed the area over to its own arch-enemy Hezbollah, which suggests Israel wanted the area to remain unstable so it can continue to find pretexts to intervene, and eventually steal it.
As there is a growing chasm inside Lebanon between Christians and Muslims, with the Christians having tired of the Muslims prioritizing Arab and Muslim causes over the cause of a Lebanon free from any interference, Arab or otherwise, the Christians have been calling for some form of separation from the Muslims. This "separation" could be as mild as declaring Lebanon an internationally-endorsed "neutral" country (which in theory would deny the Muslims the ability to drag Lebanon into Arab-Muslim causes as they have been doing since Gamal Abdel-Nasser in the 1950s), or as drastic as the partition of Lebanon into the smaller and more homogenously Christian Mount Lebanon (that existed as an autonomous entity between 1840 and 1920) and a Muslim entity that would in all likelihood re-join Syria or become a typical backward Muslim state. In between, there is talk of federalization, cantonization, decentralization, etc... In any case, the Phoenician-Christians want out of the very Greater Lebanon they themselves created in 1920 and which they now see as a monumental mistake that the Maronite Church made against the advice of the French mandatory power.
Should such a separation take place and the region of Tyre and Sidon fall under Muslim rule, especially Hezbollah's Iranian-style Shiite rule or Syrian rule, this would become a sufficient and necessary pretext for Zionist Israel to expand its colony and gobble up-annex Tyre and Sidon and their surroundings.
In conclusion, the Lebanese Christians have to decide:
- Either they remain attached to the Greater Lebanon monstrosity, even as it continues to be corrupted by the Muslims and even as Christians continue to lose and emigrate and be replaced by Syrian and Palestinian refugees and illegal migrants, all of this to wax nostalgic and preserve the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon just for the prestige;
- Or they separate from the Muslims and lose those two cities in the process, but at least preserve their existence as the last free Christian community in the east. The other Christian communities in Israel, Iraq and Syria have been decimated to no return.
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