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This is what remains of #CharlesCorm's short lived #AmitiéLibanoPalestinienne; bits and pieces of documents at the #CZArchives in Jerusalem, and an exchange of notes of goodwill like this one to #EliahuEpstein (Eilath) and his wife, "in recognition of [our] friendship"
This is what remains of #CharlesCorm's short lived #AmitiéLibanoPalestinienne; bits and pieces of documents at the #CZArchives in Jerusalem, and an exchange of notes of goodwill like this one to #EliahuEpstein (Eilath) and his wife, "in recognition of [our] friendship"
Based on Epstein's recollections and #JewishAgency papers, there is a sizable slice of Lebanese history extirpated from Lebanon's official curricula and doctored up (or suppressed) by the curators of the private papers of Lebanon's "founding fathers." #Corm for instance believed
in the special responsibility incumbent upon the descendants of the #Hebrews and the #Phoenicians, and the obligations they respectively had to modern Israel and Lebanon. Layers of cultures have been deposited in Israel and Lebanon, throughout their history [he admitted...]
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Like my Cilician grandmother's family, Afeyan's took refuge in Lebanon when Lebanon could still brag about being a refuge. #CharlesCorm (the builder of the Armenian "refugee camp" that eventually became Beirut's most industrious and enterprising municipality) wrote
Like my Cilician grandmother's family, Afeyan's took refuge in Lebanon when Lebanon could still brag about being a refuge. #CharlesCorm (the builder of the Armenian "refugee camp" that eventually became Beirut's most industrious and enterprising municipality) wrote
"It is here, in Lebanon, since time immemorial, that every minority, whenever mistreated and whenever abused, elsewhere in the Near East, has found sanctuary, has found safe refuge, from murder and tyranny. Even Druze and Shi’as, even Muslims themselves,
when persecuted by majorities among them, have always found peace, freedom and security, in the shadow of the Lebanon! And so, here are we, us the Armenians, ever since the persecutions of 1875, and during the massacres of Red Abdulhamid, in 1895, then in 1915, and later in
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1- @NationDuLiban wrote that on this day some 100 years ago the honorable #PatriarchEliasPeterHoyek was busy at work consolidating international support for the establishment of Greater Lebanon. #Hoyek's efforts throughout the 1914-1918 Great War, which devastated Lebanon,
1- @NationDuLiban wrote that on this day some 100 years ago the honorable #PatriarchEliasPeterHoyek was busy at work consolidating international support for the establishment of Greater Lebanon. #Hoyek's efforts throughout the 1914-1918 Great War, which devastated Lebanon,
2- and the international support networks that he activated in the run up to the #ParisPeaceConference1919, during the conference itself, and in its aftermath, culminated in the establishment of #GreaterLebanon on September 1, 1920.
3- @NationDuLiban draws a valid parallel here between #Hoyek’s work and the ongoing efforts that #PatriarchRaï is engaging to insure international support for Lebanon’s neutrality. Although the parallels are tempting, and indeed I argue valid, it may be too early to tell whether
