Lebanon will rise again...
The war which started on April 13, 1975 has not ended yet. Not in my book. See, I was a student like these heroes below, when the events that triggered the war took place. We started by demonstrating, too... A couple of months later, we were fighting for our land...
This time, I hope that this generation will never have to go to war... and that Lebanon will rise again, peacefully.

English translation:  "No to an occupied Lebanon"
Students have demonstrated yesterday against the tenacious occupation of Lebanon by both, Syria and Israel
This picture was published in the Montreal French newspaper, "La Presse" on December 19th, 1997.

                                    A picture is worth a thousand words.

I'll let the Lebanese weekly email news "Shufimafi" (which means: "what's up?" in Lebanese :-) relate to you the story:

Shufimafi December 19, 1997

QUOTE:

"FROM THE "CONFIDENTIAL" SECTIONS OF THE BEIRUT PRESS

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          NATIONAL AFFAIRS
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====Banning of Aoun interview sparks demonstrations and strikes

                    The arrest last Sunday by riot police of 66
          students who gathered outside Murr Television
           (MTV)'s building in Ashrafieh to protest a decision
          by Information minister BASSEM AS-SABAA
          to ban a scheduled interview with former Prime
          minister MICHEL AOUN sparked a nationwide wave of
          protests. As students from private and state
          universities staged on-campus demonstrations,
          Lebanon's two bar associations announced an
          unprecedented three-day strike. The Engineers
          Union also announced a 24-hour stoppage. On
          Tuesday, State prosecutor ADNAN ADDOUM
          announced that all 66 detainees had been released
          without being charged. However, the students protest
          movement continued unabated, culminating in a sit-in
          staged by 2,000 students in front of the Parliament
          building in Beirut yesterday.

END OF QUOTE
 

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I won't even bother to comment, approve or disapprove... I am totally disgusted...  I can only pray for that one day, my motherland, Lebanon will finally have it's D-day ...

Lebanon is the only country in the world and in history, which was mentioned by name in the Holy Bible ... 71 times!!! (Yes, SEVENTY ONE) .  (This is the most solid proof that Lebanon was never part of other countries ... At the contrary, Lebanon's neighbouring   countries were once part of it. This is a historic fact.)

The 71st time, it was in Zecharias terrifying prophecy:

[Zech 11:1.5] Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
[Zech 11:2] Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down
 
 

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Please check out the U.S Committe for a Free Lebanon at:

And finally, the Free Lebanon site at:

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