Wednesday, March 30, 2005

More on Lebanon

I should point out here that I am not denying that the Maronites probably were more benign than the Muslims. And it is regrettable that the Muslims pushed the Maronites out, although I think that Syria played a much smaller role in this than native Lebanese Muslims.

The point is, Syria is not the cause of the demographic and ethnic problems in Syria, and there is no way to solve the demographic issue in a way as to restore Maronite rule without either an apartheid state directed against the Muslim majority, or a blood bath to reduce the Muslim population.

I don't seriously believe that Farah can seriously believe that getting Syria out of Lebanon will solve all of its problems.

However, in order to maintain the fiction that peace is the natural state of Lebanon when foreigners are not occupying it, Farah is trying to explain away all of the endemic ethnic problems of Lebanon by claiming that any Lebanese who support Hezbollah are actually Iranian.

This will allow him to justify supporting a system in which the Maronites are grossly over-represented by either claiming that most of the members of the dominant group (Shiites) aren't really Lebanese and so don't count, or to justify making the Maronites less over-represented (and the Shiites less under-represented) by reducing their proportion of the population to reflect their share of the parliament rather than the other way around.

I am not suggesting genocide necessarily. What I am suggesting is that Joseph Farah wants to transfer a large portion of Lebanon's population to Iran, Syria, or some other place. This will, of course, result in a bloodbath, even if genocide is not the goal.

That is not all, I have more thoughts for later.

That is all.

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