Citation please.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Since you said you specifically looked for Iranian colonialism in Lebanon and couldn't find it, I'm legitimately willing to give a starting point:
Iranian influence in Lebanon - Wikipedia
As for Palestinian groups undermining Lebanon into civil war:
The contentious history of Palestinian armed resistance in Lebanon
The Israeli war on Gaza has recalled the troubled history of Palestinian armed resistance in Lebanon - which remains a divisive topic
In general, citations are not needed for basic knowledge. When someone posts here "Israelis are used to the risk of terrorism and conflict but Lebanon knows nothing of such things" and I write a long paragraph summarizing 80 years of basic history showing otherwise, that's sufficient. Anyone involved in a truly good faith dialogue whose first response to a mention of a Lebanese Civil War is "What's that?" needs to take it upon themself to look it up.
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Since you said you specifically looked for Iranian colonialism in Lebanon and couldn't find it, I'm legitimately willing to give a starting point:
Iranian influence in Lebanon - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
As for Palestinian groups undermining Lebanon into civil war:
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The contentious history of Palestinian armed resistance in Lebanon
The Israeli war on Gaza has recalled the troubled history of Palestinian armed resistance in Lebanon - which remains a divisive topicwww.middleeasteye.net
In general, citations are not needed for basic knowledge. When someone posts here "Israelis are used to the risk of terrorism and conflict but Lebanon knows nothing of such things" and I write a long paragraph summarizing 80 years of basic history showing otherwise, that's sufficient. Anyone involved in a truly good faith dialogue whose first response to a mention of a Lebanese Civil War is "What's that?" needs to take it upon themself to look it up.
Thanks for the info. However, I'm sorry, but the links you supplied didn't seem to mention anything about your claim that "Beirut...was colonized and gutted by Palestinian and Iranian militias..." .
Perhaps I've misread them?
Both articles are filled with examples of Iranian and Palestinian militias undermining Lebanon's governmental sovereignty and military authority, weakening the economy, actively killing Lebanese people to broaden their territorial control, and staging attacks from Lebanese soil that caused large and deadly conflicts with Israel. There is an entire section of the second link titled "Civil War," detailing how Palestinian militias caused it. I actually did start to copy-paste in here, and then when it hit a 6 paragraph text wall I stopped, it was going to wind up copy-pasting about 3/4ths of the first one and more than half of the second.
You recently posted the Wikipedia page about ALL OF LEBANON - everything! Parliament, language, economy, food, mountains and rivers - and thought that was a worthwhile use of a source, like you expected people to read it for the sake of one post in one thread. What you are now presented with are two specific articles all about Iranian and Palestinian militias using force to control Lebanese territory, society, and life, and the terrible destruction that has all caused. Try reading them again.
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Thank you for your explanation. However, regardless of that, it doesn't seem that your claim that Lebanon was actually "colonised" though. Perhaps you should have used another term?
