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Originally Posted by Amirkani

Don't worry, I am fit enough to survive. You won't need to erect a statue in my memory.

So your heroics were just a bluff then. Good to know that when the sword gets closer to the neck, common sense prevails.

It might be unavoidable in general but it ain't happening in Lebanon unless you build a statue for me.

You said you didn't need a statue. Not to worry, living in the collective consciousness of a suicidal people is just as great.

I am afraid your compatriots will soon have to give up a few acres from the kangaroo kingdom, the Americans will have to do with a few less bald eagles, the Canadians will have to give up a few hockey ice rinks and, the Arabs will have to drill a few more oil wells and, last but not least, the Israelis will have to give in to the idea of viable Palestinian statehood.

It would be a good idea if we left our respective compatriots out of it. Some of them live in thick-glass houses and some in thinner ones. But I am afraid giving up the habitat of the bald eagle is way too high a price to pay especially coming on top of you asking us to give up our human values. The Israelis will give up the west bank and Gaza, but whether it's enough to create a viable state or not is really doubtful. Look at the quasi state they have now and how they are tearing each other to threads. But that's their problem and the Canadians, the Americans and the Australians are not going to rush to help Lebanon by importing into their own land what might 200 years down the line be regarded as a fatal mistake.

Humanity? Isn't it the survival of the fittest? We just make sure we can influence the situation. And who said armed Lebanese will accept the naturalization of the Palestinians?

These armed Lebanese will settle their religious scores before they even lay a finger on the Palestinians. You may have been too young to remember Rashid Karami choosing the destruction of Lebanon over touching the Palestinians. And then we had a civil war, on whose side may I ask you did Compatriots stand? And even today strong forces inside Lebanon strongly opposed disarming the Palestinians and would rather send the country to hell than collecting their arms.

So the problem itsnt really my or your compatriots, it's rather ours. A sober reading of the situation clearly indicates that no one is going to give up any arms, and most definitely not the Palestinians. Armed Lebanese (whoever is implied in here) may not accept naturalisation but wow wow wow you talk as if you are a stranger to Jerusalem. Since when do the Lebanese decide anything of any significance in their country?