The Lebanon

She dreams of nineteen sixty-nine
Before the soldiers came
The life was cheap on bread and wine
And sharing meant no shame
She is awakened by the screams
Of rockets flying from nearby
And scared she clings onto her dreams
To beat the fear that she might die
And who will have won
When the soldiers have gone
From the lebanon
The lebanon
Before he leaves the camp he stops
He scans the world outside
And where there used to be some shops
Is where the snipers sometimes hide
He left his home the week before
He thought hed be like the police
But now he finds he is at war
Werent we supposed to keep the peace

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song performed by Human League
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Lebanon: Mountains, Meadows, Springs and Sea In The Same Sphere

And you ask me ' why
Do you love Beirut,
And Lebanon as a whole'?
Well, it is a requited kind of love,
For Lebanon love s me as well,
I can only reply
Saying can't you see
How it could heal
My physical
And psychological
Scars and wounds;
Is there a place
Like Beirut,
I wonder.

Now I am in Iowa,
But Lebanon sent Maria,
For me,
Maria is a Lebanese virgin
All of Lebanon is embodied in

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poem by Nadia Abduljabbar
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When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

quote by Hassan Nasrallah
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Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

quote by Walid Jumblatt
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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

quote by Bashar al-Assad
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That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

quote by Stephen Hadley
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

quote by Walid Jumblatt
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

quote by Walid Jumblatt
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Cornerstones

Gibran left an Empire decaying
in ashes of former greatness.
Who will come as phoenix to nation
reborn, growing steadily in strength?
Moulding itself in virtue’s light
seeking crystal rays of clear vision.

Must many bring cornerstones together
for construction of a monument’s making?
Master builder cannot build
on gigantean scale alone.
To build an edifice to mankind
takes co-operative efforts of many hands.

How is it O Lebanon! Splinter cast free
of encroaching empires’ dominance
that war has come to tear your heart?
From heaven’s height O Beirut
do tears fall of Gibran’s weeping.

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Elias' Room

Come into Elias' room,
Of a sweet smelling aroma;
With things well arranged to keep you at bay.

It is just like the wedding of two cultures,
It is just like the love of two birds,
It is just like real faces of two lovers,
It is just like the talented youth with two dreams,
It is just like Slaha and Makola markets with two phases,
So come into Elias' room!
There you will see the Lebanese beauty.

Come into Elias' room,
Of a sweet smelling aroma;
But the Lebanese beauty will keep you at bay.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Lebanon (my country)

Lebanon is the country of truth and honesty
that i will cherish for eternity
its the land of great fantasy
its a land
that our faith commands
we support each other forever
we live together
we fight with our hearts
i love Lebanon from the bottom of my heart

poem by Jana Ghossein
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

quote by Bashar al-Assad
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Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

quote by Walid Jumblatt
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

quote by Bashar al-Assad
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

quote by Rafik Hariri
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We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

quote by Mike Johanns
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My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

quote by George J. Mitchell
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The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

quote by Walid Jumblatt
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The place I had lived we had Croatians to our right, Turks to the left and Russians across the street, as well as Greeks, Lebanese - you name it. I reflect on it now and realise how privileged I was. I appreciate it more and more as the years go by.

quote by Marton Csokas
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God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.

quote by King Hussein I
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