A taste.
[IsraelTimes] Embodying the mosaic of Israeli society, Jonathan Elkhoury, an Israeli of Christian Lebanese origin, is on the front line of the Jewish state’s public diplomacy.Jonathan Elkhoury is one of the most prominent non-Jewish advocates for Israel on the international scene. Hailing from a Lebanese Christian family, he moved to Israel in 2001 at age nine as a refugee during the relocation of the South Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...Army, which fought alongside the IDF in the First Lebanon War. Today, Elkhoury lives in Haifa. As a Christian, Lebanese and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, he is a self-described minorities’ rights advocate, and has been active since 2017 as a speaker at public diplomacy events and on social media to explain to the world the diversity and complexity that characterizes modern Israel.