Can Beirut be Paris Again?

Yeah well, I recall a different Beirut....before the delicate balance was upset by the "Palestinians" fleeing their botched attempt to take over Jordan...."Black September".

The Paris of the ME....think more like WW2 Lisbon....

Prior to "Black September" Beirut was the ME financial centre.

Once the ethnic balance was upset....the civil war became a constant feature.

Syria exploited the chaos not the earlier Peace. Between the IDF and Syria the Christian and Sunni demographics were thinned out resulting in Shiite dominance...Hiz'bollah.

Can Beirut be Paris Again?

Who knows? And much more important, who cares?

I would prefer Beirut to return to the Green Line of the 70s and 80s. If they are busy fighting each other they will leave us alone. Also, it will help keep the number of muslim fighters lower. Less for us to fight later.

Perhaps the real question is "will Paris become Beirut?" Keep importing belligerent muslims with stone-age mores, and have a few more riots and car burnings and it won't be far off.

Captcha sucks ass.

"Can Beirut be Paris Again?"

Probably not.

How many so-called Canadians are permanent residents of Lebanon and how many will be expecting Canada to come to their rescue and foot the bill when all hell breaks loose?

In the earlier times they were the Phoenician that lived in what is Lebanon today. They owned the sea and commerce. The Lebanese inherited advanced knowledge in trade.

Then came the peacenik of Mecca and there started the conquest of the Phoenicians.
Being themselves not at peace with nature, they liked to kill their young for some reason.

They were not easy to conquer; it took the latter part of 20 century that the peaceniks of Mecca finally conquered their spirit. Then, the downfall was easy.

Lebanon was one of the places where trade was free and plentiful until the Meccans cut it off.

I spent a week in Jan 70 on leave from Cyprus, let me tell you it WAS the Paris of the Middle East for this soldier..

If the question is, Can Beirut become and/or remain a civilized city, the answer is: Yes, provided that a culture of individualism comes into place. When everyone stops thinking of himself as a Christian or a Sunni or a Shiite or a Druze first, and thinks of himself as an individual first, who must deal with every other person as an equal, then there is a decent chance.

In other words, it's the same culture that served the west so well for so long, until the "progressive" parasites started hacking away at it.

Without doubt, Beirut could become the "Paris of the Middle East". Some would like it to be Paris of the 1920s.

Unfortunately it's more likely that Beirut would be the Paris of the "Reign of Terror" time, during the French Revolution, but without the hope of "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité", and more likely to be the regime of the "Shahada or Dhimmitude, with Shar'ia for all". The guillotine being replaced by the AK47, but the wholesale purges to remain.

Ask the Christians how it is going in Egypt. It was only by relative numbers in Lebanon that Christians were able to exist. Once the Shias and Sunnis finish their fight then it will be the Christians turn.

Saddam taught the Iranians that peace full co-existence with Sunni Islam will never happen. It is the Saudis and their brand of Islam that has spent $ trillions around the world establishing violent Islamic movements.

The historical ties of the Lebanese Christian community go further back then the Crusades. When the First Crusade arrived in what is now Syria and Lebanon, there was still a majority Christian population, and the Crusaders were generally greeted as liberators from Muslim oppression. At least for the few centuries, the invading Muslim armies in what had been historically Christian and Zoroastrian regions made no real effort to convert the locals; it was easier to inflict the tax for non-Muslims and treat them as an occupied population.