Absolutely Quote by Martin Van Creveld

“On the other hand, the claim ignores the fact that 300,000 Lebanese men and women emigrated to the West between 1890 and 1914.16 Had…

— Louis Farshee

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the…

— Robert Fisk

For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event.…

— Annia Ciezadlo

As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at…

— Ronen Bergman

Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was…

— Carlos Slim

There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every…

— Jamie Farr

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government.…

— Rafik Hariri

“If you want to judge if a party is a Lebanese enough, let me say we take up arms and fight against the occupation…

— Sayed Hassan Nasrallah

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Buddy I have lived through three wars and several major political skirmishes. You can't beat me down with your boring-to-death sales pitches.”

— Anissa Rafeh

Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of…

— Khalil

I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative.…

— Ziad Doueiri

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

— Walid Jumblatt

Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

— Yitzhak Rabin