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Well, that's probably a factor that certainly played in. You may be right. My take was that Palestinian refugees and other malcontents in Lebanon rebelled against Christian rule there. That being said, it doesn't seem unreasonable to consider that Syria was agitating the situation.

Sometimes I think we take the easy way out, blaming too much on neighbor states in the middle-east. IMO, the Euro cash that has flooded into the region has facilitated a large part of the terrorism that has taken place over the last 40 years.

They send it in for humanitarian purposes, and the funds are diverted to weapons and tactics. Of course Europe knows this, but they don't seem to care.

11 posted on 08/31/2004 10:31:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)

My take was that Palestinian refugees and other malcontents in Lebanon rebelled against Christian rule there. That being said, it doesn't seem unreasonable to consider that Syria was agitating the situation.

Palestinians are 2% Christian -- they were 17% in 1900 and that had dropped to 2% by 1999 -- most Christian Arabs have migrated to the Americas North AND south. The PLO had concentrated in Southern Lebanon and this flared up into a war. Syria got Israel distracted