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Question Hi! My name is Hanna and I am twelve years old. I have this oral report to do with a partner that was assigned to us today. Our topic is Lebonon. We have to teach a lesson on it. I was wondering what you may know about Lebonon. I looked in all the encyclopedias and they have pretty much the same thing in them. Good info, but very boring. Can you give me some information that might spice up my project a little?
Hope to hear from you,
Hanna
Answer Hi Hanna You are about the same age that I was when I chose Lebanon as a school project. It was clear then as it is today that the Christian minority could not hope to continue in power (as a French puppet) without a rebellion by the Muslim Majority. My prophecy finally (unfortunately) came true in the 70 s civil war. It remains a problem today with the government wrestling with apportioning voting districts (gerrymandering in the USA) for fair and true representation. In the mid 1880 s the Turks were in control of Lebanon and wanted to I D all Lebanese; but the Maronites of the North resisted ( to avoid taxation and conscription in the army) the monks came out of their caves with clubs and so harrassed the Turk army that Turkey backed down. My parents came from this great and beautiful Quadisha Valley towns of Tourza and Sereel. Since Lebanon was cut out of Syria by France in 1942 it still has a fatherly protective interest in it. I was born a Syrian in 1929, but became Lebanese in 1942/// Israel has occupied ten miles along Lebanon s S border; they say for safety but they steal water from the Litani River and rich top soil (the Romans called the fertile Bekka Valley their "bread Basket).
