ForeverYoung436
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Your point?
The facts are fairly clear - an area known as Palestine existed as far back as the 5th century BCE. It is aguably more clearly defined in ancient history than Lebanon, a country whose existance few here seem to question.
We also know that Palestinians are genetically distinct from Syrians and Egyptians, and spoke of themselves as a distinct people from at least as far back as 1920 (and arguably from 1843). Again, this distinction is arguably more defined than that of the Lebanese.
In other words - accept that the Palestinian people exist, accept that a place called Palestine has existed since antiquity, and accept that they have a fair and valid historical claim to at least some of the land in the Levant.
Lebanon is a very ancient culture. It was called Phoenicia or Sidon in Biblical times. Solomon brought cedars from Lebanon to build the Temple, from his friend, Hiram King of Sidon. Later on, a Phoenician princess called Jezebel, became a bitchy Queen of Israel. In the last century, the Maronite Christian majority of Lebanon were slaughtered by the bloodthirsty Muslims, who took over the tiny country.