Monday, December 13, 2004
I have visited Lebanon many times and it is a beautiful country. I was in
Lebanon during the winter and spring of 1970 as I was doing my Ph.D
Doctorate in preventive medicine, studying the health and social issues of
the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. I witnessed this despicable treatment
of the Palestinians by the Lebanese. This discrimination still exists
today and most of it comes from the Christian Maronite. They think that
the Palestinian if allowed to prosper and obtain citizenship, they will
change the demographic balance and make the Muslims the majority of the
population. This is ridiculous because the Muslims have been and are the
majority of the population. As we know the president has to be Christian
Maronite. I am not here protesting the President being a Christian
Maronite because the current President Emil Lahood is the best leader of
all the Arab world. I am simply protesting those Maronite who consider
themselves French. In my first trip in a Turkish passenger ship from
Beirut to Spain, in 1962 to study medicine, I could not speak to any of
the S.O.B.s in Arabic because they would answer me only in French. I also
get very angry when there is discussion about the condition of the
Palestinian refugees, they justify this terrible discrimination that they
want them to go back to their homeland in Palestine. I tell them from
here, just go to Hell! If you don't want the Palestinians to be permanent
and change the demographic of population don't give them citizenship, but
allow them to get out of this sub-human treatment. I address this to all
the people of Lebanon. I strongly believe that Lebanon is part of Syria.
But Syria has to be a true democracy and not a dictator regime which has
been inflicting on the Syrian people, oppression for the last forty years.
This is a list of links pertinent to Lebanon
1 July 1982 Sundance doctor outraged about casualties in Lebanon
9 July 1982 Flyer announcing Dr. Said and Dr. Hariri's Speeches on Lebanon
4 August 1982 Letter to president Reagan concerning the Lebanon crisis