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2023-01-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
What happened to the Switzerland of the Middle East?
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Posted by Fred 2023-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1 Were it not for the thorny problem of what to do with Beirut, Lebanon should long ago have divided into Christian north (with capital at Tripoli) and Muslim south.
Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-01-21 07:36||   2023-01-21 07:36|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem being, it's in the middle east.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-01-21 09:58||   2023-01-21 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I never got a Switzerland vibe from Lebanon. It has always seemed more like a post apocalyptic inner city mall with an Arab slum aesthetic.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-21 10:12||   2023-01-21 10:12|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ In other words, the typical ME country ?
Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-21 10:17||   2023-01-21 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes. In my imagination Lebanon smells like a dumpster behind McDonalds baking in the sun on a hot summer day - just like the rest of the ME.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-21 10:23||   2023-01-21 10:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Was reportedly pretty nice until the PLO (thanks, Yasser!) infected it
Posted by Frank G 2023-01-21 10:37||   2023-01-21 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 And Beirut was "Paris of the Middle East".

But Chicago and San Fran used to be nice cities, too, from what I've heard.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-01-21 11:28||   2023-01-21 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 My uncle (married to my Dad's sister) was from Lebanon. He always said how beautiful and what a great place it was, but he moved here in the 1930's when still a teenager.

He had often spoken to family back home over the years and they told him how bad it had become. He told me how sad that made him and it was all due to the 'A-raabs' (as he called them).
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-01-21 18:06||   2023-01-21 18:06|| Front Page Top

#9 It fell like Humpty Dumpty. You would almost be better off kicking everybody out and starting over.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-21 22:34||   2023-01-21 22:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Another case of tragic dirt.
Posted by M. Murcek  2023-01-21 22:52||   2023-01-21 22:52|| Front Page Top

#11 The Muslims outbred the Christians and Christians emigrated. When there were enough Muslims, the fireworks began.
Posted by Thruter Gloluger6393 2023-01-21 22:59||   2023-01-21 22:59|| Front Page Top

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