Apr 9, 2022 · 126 votes, 65 comments. 110K subscribers in the lebanon community. Welcome to Lebanon! The country where East meets West, bordered by the beautiful…

Apr 9, 2022 · It's to avoid sectarian conflict. IIRC, part of what started the 1975-1990 civil war was a census that found Christians were no longer a majority in Lebanon. The problem is that Lebanon had a power-sharing agreement that assigned different weights to different sectarian groups based on thei

As people have said before, the people living in what is today Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan are very diverse in regards to religion and ethnicity. The whole middle east is pretty diverse tbh. Circassians were forced out of their homeland and now live in Turkey, Jordan, etc. and they are from the Caucasus if I'm remember right.

Jan 18, 2017 · Lebanon is an interesting country. Their president also needs to be christian in the Islamic-dominant nation. The reason they do this is to protect each religion. The president wont oppress and will help Christians, Druze will not oppress and will help other Druze.

Oct 1, 2023 · This Greater Lebanon was almost exactly half Christian and half Muslim in 1932. The Muslim share has increased to 60% mostly due to their higher birth rates. That is how Lebanon went from 80% Christian to 50% Christian at independence, then to 30% Christian now.

Apr 4, 2021 · I would blame Lebanon's odd sectarian political system, where political representation is tied to people's religion, for both of those more than the fact it is diverse. There are many equally diverse countries doing perfectly fine, and many more homogenous countries with the same sort of problems.

Apr 9, 2021 · Lebanon (+ very few coastal neighbour areas) is the origin of phoenician civilization. To identify with those ancestors it's a way to reinforce native identity and a direct response to an exagerated pan-arabism in the previous period. 1850s maronites didn't consider themselves "phoenicians", whithout the pan-arabism pressure to embrace the supposed pan-ethnicity, …

Aug 24, 2023 · Later the Palestinians used this weakness to force Lebanon into Cairo agreement and splitting the army. And since then demographics changed again, at the end, there was Taef, what quasi Muslim always wanted. They turned Lebanon into an Arab state - no Western face, thus Christians were deprived of their privileges, in the 1990 Taef Agreement.

Jan 6, 2023 · Welcome to Lebanon! The country where East meets West, bordered by the beautiful Mediterranean sea and home to grand green Cedar forests and high snow covered mountains. We focus on everything Lebanese; the people and rich cultural diversity, the lush and vibrant nature, our world-renowned national cuisine and a history that stretches back to ...

Lebanon has none of these things and no sovereignty or rule of law to begin with. The state is literally run by clan leaders, mafias and cartels – neither by the government nor the army. Splitting up a country by religion or race is a recipe for disaster (read: conflict and bloodshed) and effectively ends any form of statehood.