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.
The source.......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.
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