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Originally Posted by Ana3arabi!  so you measure liberalism & pluralism by the assignment of jews (or other minorities ) to positions ?? how about you start with checking how majorities. are treated . liberalism & pluralism mean nothing if the pluralistic society is not treated with respect , and no , assigning some people to positions does not mean respecting entire communities . in lebanon we never had that kind of respect , so i don't see how u can say we are "losing" something . u can't lose something u didn't have to begin with.
how do u know there are more than 50 jews in Lebanon ? |
I know a family of jews who say they are christians to protect themselves in Lebanon. They estimate the number of jews still to be leaving in Beirut to 600...
If your parents are from Beirut, you can ask them about their childhoods: my mother tells me she had lots of jewish lebanese people in her class as a kid. Now I bet you can't find anyone of our generation that can say that to his kids!
If they are not here anymore its perhaps because they do not feel protected enough. And perhaps because we, rightly, suspicion some to have spy ties with Israel...