Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Lebanon politics - a true Game of Thrones?


1:00  War of the Roses
Warlords of Lebanon are like the Game of Thrones.
2:00  Every President is Christian, every Prime Minister is a Sunni Muslim, every Speaker is a Shia Muslim.
3:00  More Muslims than Christians now.
4:00  Lebanon previously French colony.
Lebanese Civil War
5:00  Shias and Sunnis in Lebanon hate each other
7:00  Israel believes Lebanon to be part of Greater Israel.
8:00  "Hezbollah is too powerful."
Lebanon as a buffer state between Syria and Israel.
9:00  Sunni-Shia split
11:00  Saudi Arabia v Iran
Yemen is divided between Shia and Sunni.
12:00  Maronite Christian
13:00  Born a Maronite, die a Maronite, with no confirmation ceremony.
14:00  Confirmation classes of the English schoolgirls I knew.
15:00  Baptism




16:00  18 months when baptised
17:00  Christianity > Islam
18:00  Jesus was only a man but also believes in the Trinity and reincarnation.
19:00  Our ancestors are inside our brain. 
Manic episode
19:00  Ahmadis
20:00  How did Jesus die?
21:00  Noah
23:00  Divine revelation
24:00  Jews are not God's  Chosen People
Arabs are also a Semitic race.
25:00  What were Jews chosen to do and have they done it?
26:00  Jews were low status people who prospered when they followed God's laws and degenerated when they did not.
27:00  "Arabic is one of the most beautiful and poetic languages in the world."
29:00  Khalid bin Waleed was never defeated in battle.
30:00  Yin Yang
31:00  Lebanese Arabic is a dialect of Arabic with English and French.
Arabic is a poetic language. 
32:00  Lebanese Mix 2024 and Hezbollah music
34:00  Phoenicians
36:00  Tourism in Lebanese
£550 return UK to Lebanon
37:00  Mount Lebanon
38:00  2005 Hezbollah assassination
Being a buffer state
39:00  War in the Middle East since 9/11
40:00  Evangelical Christians trying to trigger the End Times.
42:00  Hezbollah
46:00  Hezbollah v ISIS
47:00  ISIS/ISIL were  CIA-funded.
Assad killed Christian President.
Political, military and social branches of Hezbollah
50:00  Is liberal democracy the problem with Israel?
52:00  Representative democracy is the problem with the West.
53:00 "Democracy is the illusion of choice."
Hope of Trump triumph.
54:00  WW3 has started.
Vaccines injected nanotechnology into our bloodstream to spy on us. 
55:00  Elon Musk
Parasocial relationships

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