Forgive me if I get anything wrong here, I'm a burg that just binged a bunch of documentaries on the Middle East.
What is the purpose of Lebanon today, and in the future? What role will it play, and are the lebs special at all?
I'm asking this because I always assumed lebanon was just some garbage arab state, but after learning more, I've realized it used to be the most impressive middle eastern country by far, and that most lebanese don't consider themselves arabs, but 'phoenicians'.
The phoenicians were actually an extremely successful and impressive ancient civilization that invented many great things and were the first official colonizers of the mediterranean sea. But what makes them most interesting in my opinion, is that they were the first and most hated enemy of the jews. And now, 3,000 years later, they are once again the primary foe of the chosen ones.
In the Bible, ((Yahweh)) commands the jews to genocide the people of Canaan. A recent genetic study confirmed that of all the mid eastern ethnicities, the Lebanese are the true descendants of the ancient Canaanites. The Canaanites then became the Phoenicians.
> news.nationalgeographic.com
So if the ((Old Testament Yahweh)) was wrong and the jews were not successful in the genocide of the Canaanites, what role will these ancient and mysterious people play? Today, they have formed Hezbollah with the help of Iran, which has faced off against and defensively bested Israel twice. Since their last skirmish in 2006, Hezbollah has 17 times more rockets. They possess 150,000 missiles, more than the entire EU combined, and their leb leader has vowed to burn the jews into ash and dust.
Aside from Islam, the modern lebs seem to be facing the exact same fight that their ancient ancestors did.
Here's some of what I watched: