Lebanon's solution is an interim Federal State

[Ya-Shawish]

Originally Posted by MockingBird

leave it the way it is
50/50 christian - muslim goverment with a MARONITE president
anyway the position will not be that much important as it is today

Why would you give 50% for Christians when they represent only 35% of the population?

[Venom]

Originally Posted by Ya-Shawish

Why would you give 50% for Christians when they represent only 35% of the population?

Lebanon is not divided between Christians and Muslims, it is between Maronites, sunnis, shiaas, druze, orthodox, catholics, etc etc etc

[Libnene Qu7]

Bring back the French. Tell them we're open for an invasion on condition that their First Lady spearheads the assault. This is the only solution.

[teshesh]

Originally Posted by MockingBird

leave it the way it is
50/50 christian - muslim goverment with a MARONITE president
anyway the position will not be that much important as it is today

this is taef and not federalism.. with federalism these rules will change...

make up your mind, either federalism either keeping things unchanged.

[Ya-Shawish]

Originally Posted by Venom

Lebanon is not divided between Christians and Muslims, it is between Maronites, sunnis, shiaas, druze, orthodox, catholics, etc etc etc

Agreed, then how would you ensure minorities representations? Would it be proportionate to the size of the sects? The bigger the ethnicity the more power? If so then I don't see it any different from what it is now. Or is there?

[hiptanaka]

Originally Posted by MockingBird

great ! you are talking about demography
this is one of the continuous fear that the christian community lives

only the Christian community?

Originally Posted by MockingBird

you admit that chi3a or sunni will outnumber at some point and therefore rule at the end

um they already do rule. The Sunnis wield the dollars and the Shiites wield the weapons.

Originally Posted by MockingBird

they will rule over a much smaller marginalised christian community

there's already a sizeable Christian community that's being marginalized. Complements of Mr. Saad Hariri

Originally Posted by MockingBird

and i'll be the first one i will burn my passeport

and i'll bag the ashes. One less paranoid, fear mongering citizen to deal with, one step closer towards soothing sectarian fears.

[joseph_lubnan]

Originally Posted by teshesh

this is taef and not federalism.. with federalism these rules will change...

make up your mind, either federalism either keeping things unchanged.

Was Fadlallah recently asking for federalism?!

[vicking]

Originally Posted by Ya-Shawish

Why would you give 50% for Christians when they represent only 35% of the population?

Because the difference between Muslims & Christian is ARTIFICIAL.

There has been 250 000 citizens imposed in 1994 through this illegal naturalization law.

There is a long list of Arab Christian (Iraqi + Egyptian); who wants to get citizenship and they can't.
There is also a big list of Lebanese origins in Brazil / USA/ Australia who wants to get the nationality - 80% are Christian.

Don't worry for the Christian of Lebanon; the whole future is bright and we will get back to a normal balance.

Last, the 1994 naturalization law gives the Christian the right to naturalize 250 000 people.

Regards

[teshesh]

Originally Posted by joseph_lubnan

Was Fadlallah recently asking for federalism?!

are we discussing what fadlallah asked for in this thread?

[Venom]

Originally Posted by teshesh

are we discussing what fadlallah asked for in this thread?

Joseph 3endo 7assaseeyeh against the shiaa...u have to excuse him :)