Lebanese vote in June...

[orangeblossom]

Too many Lebanese from all over heading back to vote. Women, children, Fathers, etc. From all sects.

Lebanese will not let us vote from where we are....we are gng there to vote!

My husband and I are helping from USA to sign up voters!

Plz...Israel..do not screw this vote up. Thousand heading back. We do not need a war, right now...take out Hezzbie hairballll, when they hurt after election.

[Steven]

Too many Lebanese from all over heading back to vote. Women, children, Fathers, etc. From all sects.

Lebanese will not let us vote from where we are....we are gng there to vote!

My husband and I are helping from USA to sign up voters!

Plz...Israel..do not screw this vote up. Thousand heading back. We do not need a war, right now...take out Hezzbie hairballll, when they hurt after election.

How about the people of Lebanon don't screw this up?

[bararallu]

Too many Lebanese from all over heading back to vote. Women, children, Fathers, etc. From all sects.

Lebanese will not let us vote from where we are....we are gng there to vote!

My husband and I are helping from USA to sign up voters!

Plz...Israel..do not screw this vote up. Thousand heading back. We do not need a war, right now...take out Hezzbie hairballll, when they hurt after election.

Are you kidding us? Most Lebanese (read = Christians) left Lebanon. There are more Lebanese, maybe 2x, outside Lebanon, esp in south America than there are in it. WHere have they been in this? We Jews in the diaspora are mostly Zionists, we help our people. Why inst that the case for Lebanese?

[Yala]

There are something like 15 million Lebanese in the diaspora, almost 4x as many as are actually living in Lebanon. The majority of the Lebanese diaspora is Christian.

[redcake]

Well if the idea is that the Christian Lebanese are going to try and take back their country through this election, and they're telling us to just lay low over the next few months so they can do that, then that's perfectly fine. It's not inconceivable that Hezballah will try to pick a fight with Israel around election time, and it would hurt the Free Lebanon movement if we took the bait. I *think* maybe that's what the OP was trying to say?

[Yala]

Well if the idea is that the Christian Lebanese are going to try and take back their country through this election
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Christian Lebanese don't have any real power in Lebanon. They admit as much on all their forums. They don't have foreign funding and support like the Sunni and Shia. Saudi Arabia and Iran are running a proxy war in Lebanon for control.

The Lebanese Christian diaspora is not returning (and can you blame them?)The remaining Christians are smart not to get involved in this mess. In a way, this Aoun has saved their behind by siding with Hezbollah. This way they look sort of neutral.

[bararallu]

In a way, this Aoun has saved their behind by siding with Hezbollah. This way they look sort of neutral.

I don't think the demographics and geography works for them in a post Assad Syria. However aggressive, both the Iranian Mullahs and the strongman Alawis are in more of precarious position in Lebanon than the Sunnis. Plus the Sunnis haven't radicalized yet, which is something the Saudis are working on. Even the idiot Assad knows this, so his recent pandering to the Saudis. There are several wild cards in this though. Either way the Leb Christians are screwed even medium term. But however screwed they are presently they are still in a better position than were the Jews in 1947. The difference is we had resolve, they... not so much. Maybe in a couple thousand years they'll get their act together.

[Yala]

I don't think the demographics and geography works for them in a post Assad Syria. However aggressive, both the Iranian Mullahs and the strongman Alawis are in more of precarious position in Lebanon than the Sunnis. Plus the Sunnis haven't radicalized yet, which is something the Saudis are working on. Even the idiot Assad knows this, so his recent pandering to the Saudis. There are several wild cards in this though. Either way the Leb Christians are screwed even medium term. But however screwed they are presently they are still in a better position than were the Jews in 1947. The difference is we had resolve, they... not so much. Maybe in a couple thousand years they'll get their act together.

I sort of understand why they don't have this "resolve." While they LOVE their country, they are in a totally different position than the Jews, even though their situation has a few minor similarities. Many countries that the Christian Lebanese emigrated to from Lebanon are semi-Christian nations with an overwhelming Christian majority(Canada, Australia, the US, some South American countries, etc). Because these Leb. Christians are well..Christian... it was so easy for them to assimilate. Jews, although very assimilated in the US, are still seen as a little different. We still feel persecuted and scapegoated (Chas Freeman anyone?;)). Lebanese don't feel that, although they prob. get mistaken for Muslims a lot;). But once they show their Christian credentials all is forgiven. The Jews don't have that luxury.

Although it would be nice to have a Christian country in the M.E., it's just not necessary for them when there are so many Christian countries elsewhere. That's not to say they don't have a yearning for Lebanon, just not that "resolve" you mentioned.

As for us, we need our own country and Israel is the only one we've got.

I agree totally about the Sunnis by the way away. Since the Shia have radicalized they have also had many more kids and now they are the largest sect by far. It's too bad that SA is on a mission to radicalize the Sunni in their ongoing proxy war being waged against Iran in Lebanon. They seem like the most level-headed Sunni in the region. It's also too bad about Rafik Hariri.