after hearing the author David Fromkin on WABC in NY on the "Bachelor and Alexander" show when Fromkin was on a book tour in the early '90s.
That whole mess in that area has been going on for a LONG LONG time - all an artifact of the European colonization, partitioning and breakup of the Ottoman empire and their own colonies around the world after WW1 & WWII.
And sadly what is being described by them is way worse on the continent of Africa.
What they are experiencing is by no means "unique". Most of the Lebanese being attacked are Christians but again, the destructive random borders generated by Europeans (in that case, France) ended up being a flashpoint with the creation of Israel.
Those who have come here to the U.S. need to LISTEN to those who came BEFORE them who TRIED to WARN them of the fickleness of this country. They are lucky that THEIR ANCESTORS didn't come here this way like mine did -
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