7th Rangers: 50 years ago today, on Palm Sunday, Palestinian terrorists officially started the Lebanese Civil War and declared war on Christians By Dr. Maalouf
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
50 years ago today, on Palm Sunday, Palestinian terrorists officially started the Lebanese Civil War and declared war on Christians By Dr. Maalouf
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
X : They cowardly opened fire on a church in Beirut during a baptism ceremony and killed four people. Lebanon at the time was a Christian-majority country and the most prosperous nation in the Middle East.
It was the financial and tourist capital of the region. Palestinians and their Islamist allies destroyed all that by dragging the country into a 15-year-long war.
Why? Because they hated Christians. They couldn’t stand the idea of Christians having self-determination and their own homeland in the Middle East, a tiny country smaller than Qatar. They called native Lebanese Christians ‘Crusaders’ and imperialists. Anything that deviated from the Arab Muslim supremacist norm was ‘colonialism’ (yes, the same argument they use against Israel today).
Dozens of thousands of Christians were slaughtered, and many more were forced to leave. The dream of a peaceful, self-determined Lebanon, the only Christian country in the Middle East, was destroyed.
Jim Chimirie : The truth is, the Lebanese Civil War was not some spontaneous "internal conflict" - it was a calculated jihad against the Christian identity of Lebanon. Palestinian militants, backed by broader Islamist forces, brought their hatreds and wars into a country that had been peaceful, prosperous, and predominantly Christian.
Lebanon was a beacon of success in the Middle East - free, cosmopolitan, and thriving - and that was intolerable to those who could only see the world through the lens of sectarian domination. Christians daring to build a homeland in their own ancestral land was seen as an insult by those who believe only Muslim states have legitimacy in the region.
The massacre on Palm Sunday 1975 was a declaration of war against Christian Lebanon. The PLO and their Islamist allies shattered the country, sowed chaos, and opened the door for Syria and Iran to tighten their grip. Tens of thousands of Christians were butchered or forced into exile. And today, the same hateful rhetoric is aimed at Israel - and increasingly, at any non-Muslim communities trying to survive in the Middle East.
This is the reality. It's ugly, but ignoring it would be even worse.
