Dr. Maalouf
50 years ago today, on Palm Sunday, Palestinian terrorists officially started the Lebanese Civil War and declared war on Christians. They cowardly opened fire on a church in Beirut during a baptism ceremony and killed four people. Lebanon at the time was a Christian-majority country and the most prosperous nation in the Middle East. It was the financial and tourist capital of the region. Palestinians and their Islamist allies destroyed all that by dragging the country into a 15-year-long war. Why? Because they hated Christians. They couldn’t stand the idea of Christians having self-determination and their own homeland in the Middle East, a tiny country smaller than Qatar. They called native Lebanese Christians ‘Crusaders’ and imperialists. Anything that deviated from the Arab Muslim supremacist norm was ‘colonialism’ (yes, the same argument they use against Israel today). Dozens of thousands of Christians were slaughtered, and many more were forced to leave. The dream of a peaceful, self-determined Lebanon, the only Christian country in the Middle East, was destroyed.
