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Just a big kid really...
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Gippsland Gourmet Country, Australia
Posts: 1,233
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Tabs,
No need to lecture me on the ways of the ME...I know those ways only too well.
My father was Christian Lebanese...Melkite Catholic (and so am I). He emigrated to Australia in 1952; visited Lebanon in 1965 and then we as a family spent 12 months overseas in 1968 and the summer in Lebanon. He knew then (both in '65 and '68) that trouble was brewing and there was no hope of his birth country ever seeing true peace again.
He became a Naturalised Australian in 1962. I asked him once a very difficult hypothetical question...if Australia and Lebanon were ever on opposing sides in a war; which side would he choose. He answered without any hesitation that he would choose Australia; such was his allegiance to his adopted country.
My mother was born here in Aus, her parents emigrated from Lebanon in 1926. Her family are Greek Orthodox.
I know the problems facing the ME...I have watched Lebanon fall into an abyss. A country that only a few decades ago was so very different from what it is now.
I agree that Egypt is not Iran and that times are now different...but I do not expect to see a settled Egypt any time soon.
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