--- Stan Spiegel <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Judith writes: > "my point was (and is) that Brigitte Gabriel is not > necessarily > representative of Lebanese Christians (and is not > telling the > whole story)." > > And who can tell the whole story? We can try for a better approximation of the whole story by noting that (if what I have read is correct) it is not the case that Lebanese Muslims mounted a totally unprovoked attack on Maronite Christians. (I should have spelled out "is not telling the whole story".) Here are some links re which I comment that they tell another story from that told by Brigitte Gabriel (I haven't had time to cross-check them) http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/lima/lebanon1975.htm http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0024125.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kataeb_Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War http://www.jtf.org/america/america.lebanon.part.one.htm Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html