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Do you not remember Damour Lebanon. Let me remind you. Arafat and the PLO plunged Lebanon into "massacres, rape, mutilation, rampages of looting and killings. Out of a population of 3.2 million, some 40,000 or more people had been killed, 100,000 wounded, 5,000 permanently maimed."</blockquote>
Do you not remember Damour Lebanon. Let me remind you. Arafat and the PLO plunged Lebanon into "massacres, rape, mutilation, rampages of looting and killings. Out of a population of 3.2 million, some 40,000 or more people had been killed, 100,000 wounded, 5,000 permanently maimed."</blockquote>
Author:<ref>Alan M. Tigay (1980). "Myths and Facts 1980: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict." [https://books.google.com/books?id=5SK7AAAAIAAJ&q=damour+jihad p. 153].</ref>
Author elaborates on anti-Christian motivation:<ref>Alan M. Tigay (1980). "Myths and Facts 1980: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict." [https://books.google.com/books?id=5SK7AAAAIAAJ&q=damour+jihad p. 153].</ref>
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Prior to the 1967 war, an ominous phrase about Jews and Christians was heard in the Arab world: "First the Saturday people , then the Sunday people." Historian Bernard Lewis writes: "The Saturday people have proved unexpectedly recalcitrant, and recent events in Lebanon indicate that the priorities may have been reversed." (Commentary , January 1976).
Prior to the 1967 war, an ominous phrase about Jews and Christians was heard in the Arab world: "First the Saturday people , then the Sunday people." Historian Bernard Lewis writes: "The Saturday people have proved unexpectedly recalcitrant, and recent events in Lebanon indicate that the priorities may have been reversed." (Commentary , January 1976).
Recently, anti-Christian sentiment erupted in Lebanon where ideological and class warfare also split along Moslem-Christian lines.
Recently, anti-Christian sentiment erupted in Lebanon where ideological and class warfare also split along Moslem-Christian lines.
Cries for a jihad (Moslem holy war) were frequent. Christians in the town of Damour were driven from their homes. An estimated 20,000 Christians died in the two-year civil war.</blockquote>
Cries for a jihad (Moslem holy war) were frequent. Christians in the town of Damour were driven from their homes. An estimated 20,000 Christians died in the two-year civil war.</blockquote>
It was a major incident in a long list of ''massacres and crimes committed by the Palestinians and the Syrians Against the Lebanese (1975–90).''<ref name=nisan-2004>Mordechai Nisan: <i>The Conscience of Lebanon: A Political Biography of Etienne Sakr (Abu-Arz)</i>, (Routledge, 2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=lkWQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 p. 158]
It was a major incident in a long list of ''massacres and crimes committed by the Palestinians and the Syrians Against the Lebanese (1975–90).''<ref name=nisan-2004>Mordechai Nisan: <i>The Conscience of Lebanon: A Political Biography of Etienne Sakr (Abu-Arz)</i>, (Routledge, 2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=lkWQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 p. 158]