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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
That's a pretty condescending post with a lot of factual issues.
Many Maronites left, but nowhere close to a 'vast majority'.
And the history of strife between the Lebanese people is almost entirely a product of outside influences. It was quite a properous and peaceful country by Arab standards before the onset of the civil war.
Not going to derail further.
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There are 18 million Lebanese people in the world, of which about 80% are Christian. The population of Lebanon is about 5 million, of which about 40% are Christians. Do the math.
And who's to say a single Israeli state would not be subject to similar outside forces. The Syrians have their eyes on Israel the same way they have their eyes on Lebanon. Lebanon before the civil war had a clear Christian majority. As soon as that became contested things fell apart. I'm not saying muslims were to blame. I'm saying at no point in history have two totally culturally different peoples existed as one state. There's always a clear majority or there is conflict.