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The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.
Michael Mccaul / U.s. Representative
Denied
Destruction
Holocaust
Iran
Israel
Lebanon
President
Terrorist
Arm
Conflicts
Current
Took
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I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943. Syria never - Syria never have recognized Lebanon. They regard Lebanon as part of Syria.
Ariel Sharon / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Independence
Declaration
Independent
Lebanon
Regard
Syria
Will Never Know
Recognize
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In 2005, the last year of his life, Ahmad Abu Adass was 22 and still living with his parents in Beirut, Lebanon. He was kind and liked people, his friends later told investigators, but none of them thought he was very sophisticated.
Ronen Bergman /
Beirut
Investigators
Last Year
Lebanon
Sophisticated
Abu
Life Parents Living
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I've never felt that my job was difficult because I'm a woman. It's a difficult job regardless, and it's even more difficult in Lebanon because there's no film industry. There's no structure, funding, or institutions for filmmakers.
Nadine Labaki / Actress
Film Industry
Funding
Lebanon
Difficult Job
Regardless
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If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
Zach Wamp / Former U.s. Representative
Iraq
Islamic
Israel
Lebanon
Tall
Tomorrow
Rise
Drive
Destroy
Straight
Seek
Pulled
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Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
Brit Hume / Journalist
Lebanon
Night
Organization
President
Speech
Terrorist
Tuesday
Tuesday Night
Virtue
Area
Course
List
Operate
Reporting
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Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.
Ariel Sharon / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Acquire
Danger
Effort
Enormous
Faces
Iran
Israel
Lebanon
Missiles
Nuclear
Prominent
Syria
Terror
Weapons
Extreme
Ballistic
Dangers
Establishing
Hopes
Network
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Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.
Richard Engel / Journalist
Government
Christian
Factions
Groups
Lebanon
Palestinian
Two
Armed
Bands
Operating
Radicals
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Rafik Hariri / Political Figure
Absence
Agreement
Israel
Lebanon
Territory
Accountable
Basis
Withdraw
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My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green Bay, Wis., married, bought a house, and he and my mom, Helen, raised 10 kids. Everything depended on his one-man business driving a truck.
Tony Shalhoub / Actor
Green
Green Bay
Lebanon
Married
One Man
Raised
Traveled
Truck
Bay
Bought
Depended
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
June Jordan / Poet
Travel
Country
Lebanon
Soldier
Years
Years Ago
Arabic
Translated
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Abu Bakar Bashir / Cleric
Calculations
Destroyed
Gas
Leader
Lebanon
Making Money
Oil
Worry
Arab
Benefit
Leaders
Neighbours
Profits
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Whether it is Iraq, whether it is Yemen, whether it is Lebanon, whether it is Syria, I mean North Africa, you could go through the list of countries where Iran as the largest state sponsor of terrorism uses these proxies... to foment chaos in the Middle East.
Morgan Ortagus /
Chaos
East
Iran
Lebanon
Middle
Middle East
North Africa
Syria
Terrorism
Yemen
Africa
Countries
Largest
List
North
Sponsor
Uses
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Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
Suzanne Fields /
Arabia
Egypt
Lebanon
Papers
Restless
Rulers
Saudi Arabia
Scheduling
Syria
Terrified
Allowed
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Candidate
Elections
Limited
Municipal
Perhaps
Saudi
Whose
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Everything that happens in the life of a human being, especially artists, who are supposed to be more sensitive, yes, it can affect you. In Lebanon I saw 10- and 12-year-old kids walking around with guns, and I understood how much human actions affect people.
Demis Roussos /
Human Actions
Lebanon
Sensitive
Affect
Guns
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Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.
Ted Deutch /
Assets
Gaza
Hamas
Investment
Iran
Lebanon
Oil
Opening
Slaughter
Syria
Terror
Violence
Weapons
Billion
Exports
Foreign
Increasing
Worldwide
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As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all individuals from institutional discrimination. That said, I am weary of the ethos of victimhood that has parasitized our culture.
Gad Saad / Scientist
Beirut
Discrimination
Ethos
Lebanon
Persecution
Protection
Religious
Support
Weary
Escaped
Fully
Parents
Individuals
Institutional
Whose
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In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.
Yasser Arafat / Former Chairman Of The Palestine Liberation Organization
Lebanon
Three
Two
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What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
Hassan Nasrallah /
Launching
Lebanon
Probability
Resistance
Sharon
Attack
Eliminate
Talked
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The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Doe
Elsewhere
Harm
Lebanon
Rage
Shocking
Territory
Against
Actions
Extreme
Call
Crimes
Emotionally
Fact
Particularly
Help
In Fact
Likely
Occupied
Palestinians
Reaction
Territories
Valid
Victims
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My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.
Greg Kinnear / Actor
Brother
Embassy
Enthusiastic
Father
Lebanon
Older Brother
Spring
Cool Family Father
Washington
Diplomat
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Kai Bird /
Arabia
Department
Egypt
Foreign Service
Lebanon
Palestine
Saudi Arabia
Diplomat
Israelis
Near
Officer
Saudi
State Department
Virtually
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As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.
Ronen Bergman /
Justified
Lebanon
Prime Minister
Right Person
Sharon
Significant
Minister
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We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn't mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really - should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living.
Najib Mikati /
Alone
Committed
Cost
International
International Community
Lebanon
Numbers
Share
Syria
Open
Brothers
Door
Refugees
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Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy.
Hillary Clinton / Former United States Secretary Of State
Including
Iran
Lebanon
Troops
Absolute
Basically
Iranians
Propped
Syrian
Waged
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
Ziad Doueiri /
Beirut
Eastern
Lebanon
Peculiar
Western
French
Identities
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Author
War
Beirut
Denial
Gravity
Including
Lebanon
People
Temporary
Underestimate
Years
Oh
Lasted
One Of The Things
Situations
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The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.
Stef Wertheimer /
Dependent
Developing
Extremism
Lebanon
Oil
Palestinian
Results
Area
No Work
Places
Region
Territories
Too Much Money
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Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.
Menachem Begin / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Groups
Lebanon
Apart
Armed
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
Yoko Ono / Artist
Best
Aids
Bed
Bed Of Roses
Crosses
Dying
Lebanon
Lucky
People
Situation
Stars
Widows
Worst
Worst Situation
Life Stars People
Life Best Life Is A
Just
Never
Bear
Nobody
Claim
Count
Over
Life Is A
Planet
Roses
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The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.
Muhammad Ali / Professional Boxer
Famous
Arabia
Common
Islam
Lebanon
Morocco
Muhammad
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Syria
World Me Anything
Anything
Anything Else
Around
Became
Name
Champ
Nation
Countries
Else
Gave
Joined
Muslim
Saudi
Turkey
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The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?
Hugo Chavez / Former President Of Venezuela
Happened
Hegemony
Hundred
Iraq
Latin
Latin America
Lebanon
Palestine
United States
War Peace Government
Exploit
Hundred Years
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The tactical issue is ISIS or ISIL in the greater Levant area, which is essentially Syria, and Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, et cetera. But the wider problem is not just trans-regional in that part of the world, but it's also global. I mean, 40 to 50 countries supplying fighters to this current fight in the Middle East? Come on.
Michael T. Flynn /
East
Greater
Jordan
Lebanon
Middle
Middle East
Problem
Syria
Area
Countries
Current
Fight
Essentially
Fighters
Global
Issue
Supplying
Wider
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In 1982, Israel began an invasion across its northern border, seeking to root out elements of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israeli military wreaked destruction all the way up to Beirut and forced the P.L.O. out of Lebanon. It also defeated the Syrian Army and, particularly, the Air Force wherever it engaged them.
Ronen Bergman /
Air
Air Force
Army
Beirut
Defeated
Destruction
Elements
Engaged
Force
Invasion
Israel
Israeli
Lebanon
Liberation
Military
Organization
Palestine
Seeking
Across
Began
Border
Particularly
Northern
Root
Syrian
Wherever
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Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.
Roger Ebert / Film Critic
Women
War
Beirut
East
Hatred
Lebanon
Middle
Middle East
One Time
Paris
Religious
Religious Wars
Rose
Theory
Wealth
Had
Apart
Time Women Power
Been
Blown
Those
Charge
Time Power Women
Part
Nation
Wars
Exploited
Financed
Sectarian
Senseless
Sought
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Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence was reduced because, for the first time since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqis felt that there was a force capable of dominating the situation and ensuring basic order.
Noah Feldman / Author
Administration
Capable
Collapse
Dominating
Lebanon
Somalia
Strategy
Bush
Bush Administration
Ensuring
Invaded
Iraqis
Reduced
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I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.
Andy Serkis / Film Actor
Age
Babylon
Done
East
Lebanon
London
Middle
Middle East
Return
Ten
Time Age Done
Totally
Time Age World
By The Time
Early Age
Fair
Places
Spent
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If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
Benjamin Carson / Doctor
Christian
Lebanon
People
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