From: jle@locus.com (John Elghani/10000000)
Subject: Re: I AM A PHOENICIAN! vs A SYRIAN
Organization: L
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 03:48:12 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.165921.366@ulrik.uio.no> eliedw@hedda.uio.no (Elie Dib Wardini) writes:
>It seems like will never learn!
>
>Suppose that I am born in China, I learn chinese as my mother tongue, and I
>grow with Chinese cultural habits and hold a chinese passport, but both my
>father and mother are Lebanese.

The fact goes beyond who is Lebanese, Chinese, Arabic, or Pheonecian.
Most of the Lebanese that claim to be Phoenecian are distinguished.
They do so due to their hate to Arabism which is linked
to Islamism or something common with Syria.   The Lebanese may not be
arabs, they could be a combination of hundreds of tribes.  Many Lebanese
are Italians, some came with the crossades, some from Yemen, some settled
via the Ottmans, some via the French, and some from Syria even as early
as 1976 when they moved in for the protection of the phoenecians.

No, the lebanese are not arabs in the sense of being the sons of Abraham
of Mecca, but those that claim phonecianism are also bullshitters, they
do so to distance themselves.

Who are the phoenicians of today, we don't know, some may still be
living in Lebanon, and some may have moved to China with Elie Wardini's
parents :)) .   BUT THE POINT STANDS AT WHO CLAIMS TO BE PHO. DUE TO WHAT
REASON;  THAT IS WHAT COUNTS.

I think the phoenecian claimers should cliam to be syrians, after all
syria saved their asses, and should hang a picture of PRESIDENT
HAFIZ AL ASAD on their walls, and should join the great BAATH PARTY.



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jle
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