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One of the most infuriating things about the Middle East is the global amnesia about what happened in Lebanon.
The world has largely ignored Lebanon’s Christian communities, which have been a victim of Palestinian and Hezbollah violence.
Beirut, its capital, was once called “Paris on the Mediterranean.” No more. Since the 1970’s, it’s been a killing ground of Christians by Palestinian armed militias and by Iran’s Hezbollah.
In a few moments, I want to introduce you to Rhonda, a courageous and fearless Lebanese woman who is Christian. She and her mother fled Beirut in 1975 with only the clothes on their backs as Palestinian mortar rounds slammed into their apartment building.
Armed Palestinians bombed her neighborhood, shot at her as she tried to go to college and kidnapped her fiancé. He was never seen or heard from again. She eventually returned to her country and operates charities there.
She also says she is echoing her fellow Christians by telling me that the killing of Hezbollah leader by Israelis is “joyous news.”
“It’s unbelievable news,” she told me. “So many people suffered at the hands of Nasrallah. So many. We became victims of Hezbollah. You don’t know how much we suffered in Lebanon from Hezbollah. They were just monsters on the block.”
Her comments to me also are gruesome about what it means to be a Lebanese Christian and to face Palestinian – and later Hezbollah - violence. She gives us a taste of what terror means on the street level, day-after-day.
The war waged by Palestinians and Hezbollah was mischaracterized as a “civil war.” In reality, Palestinians and later Hezbollah waged a cruel war of extermination against the Lebanese Christian population.
When we hear that 20 Lebanese residents were accidentally killed by Israelis as it tries to destroy Hezbollah ammunition dumps and command headquarters located in densely populated Beirut, please also remember that 150,000 Lebanese were killed during that “civil war” and 100,000 wounded. Most of the victims were Christians.
Let’s look at some history that’s been ignored by most of the West. If you wish to skip the history, you can scroll down to hear “Rhonda’s Story” a Lebanese Christian. In some ways, these Christians became the country’s “Jews” as they faced sickening atrocities at the hands of Palestinian armed groups and Iran’s Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s Brutal History Waged By Palestinian militias and Hezbollah
Christianity has had its roots in Lebanon. As the Catholic News Agency notes, “Christianity in Lebanon traces its roots to the dawn of Christianity itself — in fact, Christ himself visited Lebanon.”
Native Christians once were a majority in Lebanon. As recently as the end of World War II, it was the only Christian-majority country in the Middle East. But they’ve faced systemic genocide at the hands of Muslim armies, mainly from vicious Palestinian armed militias and Hezbollah.
Shockingly, most of the world have ignored the pleas of Lebanese Christians.
Like the Jews who lived to their south, the Christians faced daily, unending violence by Palestinians and later by the Iranian-supported political party in southern Lebanon called Hezbollah or the Party of God.
As the Emergency Committee To Save the Persecuted and the Enslaved (ECSPE), a human rights group, reported, “During the Civil War, 150,000 people were killed, with the majority being Christians. This forced many Christians to leave the country for their safety. As a result, the number of Lebanese people living outside Lebanon (9-14 million) is higher than the number of Lebanese people living within Lebanon (4.3 million).”
ECSPE calls the civil war “a defining moment in Lebanon’s demographic and political evolution. The war, fought mainly along sectarian lines, had devastating consequences for Lebanon’s Christian population.”
“Muslim militias gained control of several historically Christian cities and territories, while large numbers of Christians were displaced,” the human rights group explains.
“The major player was the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which played a central role in sending and establishing Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, particularly after their expulsion from Jordan in the early 1970s; this conflict is known as Black September,” the group notes.
Black September was formed after Jordan’s King Hussein expelled Yasir Arafat’s old Palestine Liberation Organization military arm.
Why did the King oust the PLO from Jordan?
His government ordered them to leave as they terrorized local Jordanians with openly armed terror gangs who roamed throughout the streets of its cities and robbed or kidnapped ordinary Jordanians. The terrorists hid in Palestinian camps, cowardly seeking refuge in the camps when they weren’t assaulting Jordanians.
Eventually, the PLO plotted to overthrow King Hussein. The King evicted them. Thousands of heavily armed terror groups escaped to southern Lebanon where they continued their violence, now against Lebanon’s native Christians.
As noted, in southern Lebanon Arafat organized “Black September.” It was named about the time the King expelled them.
Black September’s very first act was to assassinate Jordan’s civilian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tel in November 1971. They gunned him down in the lobby of the Sheraton Cairo Hotel in Egypt while he was attending an Arab League summit. Then they hijacked airplanes.
In 1972, they displayed their inhumanity by entering the Munich Olympics where they took Israeli athletes hostage and then murdered the entire Olympic team.
Once in Lebanon, the Palestinians violently attacked many non-Muslim groups that opposed them. As ECSPC reports, “The PLO essentially created a state within a state in certain areas, operating outside the control of the Lebanese government.
As the educational site “ThoughtCo” reports, Hezbollah also operated as a state-within-a-state. The Iranian-financed terror group “is often regarded as a “deep state,” or clandestine government operating within the parliamentary Lebanese government.”
Just to make this personal for Americans, Hezbollah also attacked both the U.S. Embassy and then a U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon. As ThoughtCo dryly states: “In April 1983, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed, killing 63 people. Six months later, the suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killed more than 300 people, including 241 U.S. service members. A U.S. court subsequently found that Hezbollah had been behind both attacks.”
Finally, as if it made any difference, the U.S. has done nothing to uproot Hezbollah even as it designated it as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
It took the Israelis to kill Nasrallah and his evil associates in 2024.
It’s also quite amazing that human rights groups, Christian churches and the Pope never waged a visible, continual campaign against the Palestinians and Hezbollah as they attempted to try to conduct ethnic cleansing of non-Muslim religious communities in southern Lebanon. The world has largely remained silent.
More at: https://richardpollock.substack.com/p/remembering-the-murder-of-lebanons
The world has largely ignored Lebanon’s Christian communities, which have been a victim of Palestinian and Hezbollah violence.
Beirut, its capital, was once called “Paris on the Mediterranean.” No more. Since the 1970’s, it’s been a killing ground of Christians by Palestinian armed militias and by Iran’s Hezbollah.
In a few moments, I want to introduce you to Rhonda, a courageous and fearless Lebanese woman who is Christian. She and her mother fled Beirut in 1975 with only the clothes on their backs as Palestinian mortar rounds slammed into their apartment building.
Armed Palestinians bombed her neighborhood, shot at her as she tried to go to college and kidnapped her fiancé. He was never seen or heard from again. She eventually returned to her country and operates charities there.
She also says she is echoing her fellow Christians by telling me that the killing of Hezbollah leader by Israelis is “joyous news.”
“It’s unbelievable news,” she told me. “So many people suffered at the hands of Nasrallah. So many. We became victims of Hezbollah. You don’t know how much we suffered in Lebanon from Hezbollah. They were just monsters on the block.”
Her comments to me also are gruesome about what it means to be a Lebanese Christian and to face Palestinian – and later Hezbollah - violence. She gives us a taste of what terror means on the street level, day-after-day.
The war waged by Palestinians and Hezbollah was mischaracterized as a “civil war.” In reality, Palestinians and later Hezbollah waged a cruel war of extermination against the Lebanese Christian population.
When we hear that 20 Lebanese residents were accidentally killed by Israelis as it tries to destroy Hezbollah ammunition dumps and command headquarters located in densely populated Beirut, please also remember that 150,000 Lebanese were killed during that “civil war” and 100,000 wounded. Most of the victims were Christians.
Let’s look at some history that’s been ignored by most of the West. If you wish to skip the history, you can scroll down to hear “Rhonda’s Story” a Lebanese Christian. In some ways, these Christians became the country’s “Jews” as they faced sickening atrocities at the hands of Palestinian armed groups and Iran’s Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s Brutal History Waged By Palestinian militias and Hezbollah
Christianity has had its roots in Lebanon. As the Catholic News Agency notes, “Christianity in Lebanon traces its roots to the dawn of Christianity itself — in fact, Christ himself visited Lebanon.”
Native Christians once were a majority in Lebanon. As recently as the end of World War II, it was the only Christian-majority country in the Middle East. But they’ve faced systemic genocide at the hands of Muslim armies, mainly from vicious Palestinian armed militias and Hezbollah.
Shockingly, most of the world have ignored the pleas of Lebanese Christians.
Like the Jews who lived to their south, the Christians faced daily, unending violence by Palestinians and later by the Iranian-supported political party in southern Lebanon called Hezbollah or the Party of God.
As the Emergency Committee To Save the Persecuted and the Enslaved (ECSPE), a human rights group, reported, “During the Civil War, 150,000 people were killed, with the majority being Christians. This forced many Christians to leave the country for their safety. As a result, the number of Lebanese people living outside Lebanon (9-14 million) is higher than the number of Lebanese people living within Lebanon (4.3 million).”
ECSPE calls the civil war “a defining moment in Lebanon’s demographic and political evolution. The war, fought mainly along sectarian lines, had devastating consequences for Lebanon’s Christian population.”
“Muslim militias gained control of several historically Christian cities and territories, while large numbers of Christians were displaced,” the human rights group explains.
“The major player was the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which played a central role in sending and establishing Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, particularly after their expulsion from Jordan in the early 1970s; this conflict is known as Black September,” the group notes.
Black September was formed after Jordan’s King Hussein expelled Yasir Arafat’s old Palestine Liberation Organization military arm.
Why did the King oust the PLO from Jordan?
His government ordered them to leave as they terrorized local Jordanians with openly armed terror gangs who roamed throughout the streets of its cities and robbed or kidnapped ordinary Jordanians. The terrorists hid in Palestinian camps, cowardly seeking refuge in the camps when they weren’t assaulting Jordanians.
Eventually, the PLO plotted to overthrow King Hussein. The King evicted them. Thousands of heavily armed terror groups escaped to southern Lebanon where they continued their violence, now against Lebanon’s native Christians.
As noted, in southern Lebanon Arafat organized “Black September.” It was named about the time the King expelled them.
Black September’s very first act was to assassinate Jordan’s civilian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tel in November 1971. They gunned him down in the lobby of the Sheraton Cairo Hotel in Egypt while he was attending an Arab League summit. Then they hijacked airplanes.
In 1972, they displayed their inhumanity by entering the Munich Olympics where they took Israeli athletes hostage and then murdered the entire Olympic team.
Once in Lebanon, the Palestinians violently attacked many non-Muslim groups that opposed them. As ECSPC reports, “The PLO essentially created a state within a state in certain areas, operating outside the control of the Lebanese government.
As the educational site “ThoughtCo” reports, Hezbollah also operated as a state-within-a-state. The Iranian-financed terror group “is often regarded as a “deep state,” or clandestine government operating within the parliamentary Lebanese government.”
Just to make this personal for Americans, Hezbollah also attacked both the U.S. Embassy and then a U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon. As ThoughtCo dryly states: “In April 1983, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed, killing 63 people. Six months later, the suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killed more than 300 people, including 241 U.S. service members. A U.S. court subsequently found that Hezbollah had been behind both attacks.”
Finally, as if it made any difference, the U.S. has done nothing to uproot Hezbollah even as it designated it as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
It took the Israelis to kill Nasrallah and his evil associates in 2024.
It’s also quite amazing that human rights groups, Christian churches and the Pope never waged a visible, continual campaign against the Palestinians and Hezbollah as they attempted to try to conduct ethnic cleansing of non-Muslim religious communities in southern Lebanon. The world has largely remained silent.
More at: https://richardpollock.substack.com/p/remembering-the-murder-of-lebanons
