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Article: Lebanon: the silent choice.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Napoleon, the Greeks, the Romans and the Turks thought that the boundaries of Syria should be the Mediterranean, the Euphrates, the Arabian Desert and the Taurus mountains. Geography, common sense and the Muslims and Druze of the entire region agreed. France and the Maronites of Mount Lebanon disagreed, and in 1920 France divided Syria, creating the new State of the Greater Lebanon, which later became the independent modern Lebanese state. This division was folly matched in ignorance, presumption and arrogance only by subsequent Israeli policy in South Lebanon and American Middle Eastern policy in general.
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