Independence without Freedom or Sovereignty or Self-Government

WHEN, HOW, AND FROM WHOM LEBANON GOT HER INDEPENDENCE

Lebanon was part of the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years; in a region known as Greater Syria until 1918, when the area became part of the French Mandate of Syria following World War I.

On 1^st September 1920, France formed the State of Greater Lebanon as one of several ethnic enclaves within Syria. Lebanon was a Christian, mainly Maronite, enclave but it also included areas containing Moslems and Druze.Six years later, on 1^st Sept. 1926, France formed the Lebanese Republic. The Republic afterwards became a separate entity from Syria but was still administered under the French Mandate of Syria.

Lebanon gained her independence in 1943, while France was occupied by Germany. The then Vichy High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon played a major role in the independence of the nation. The Vichy Authorities in 1941 allowed Germany to move aircraft and supplies through Syria to Iraq where they were used against British forces. The United Kingdom, fearing that Nazi Germany would gain full control of the region by exerting pressure on the weak government, sent its army into Syria and Lebanon.

Daniel: The above paragraphs ought to give you – dear readers and Fellow-Lebanese-Apes – a clear and concise idea of the sneaky, slimy, and very questionable way in which this miserable country (Lebanon) got its independence on the 22^nd November, 1943; and not from France, but from the treacherous, traitorous, and treasonous Vichy Government that betrayed France and her allies during the German occupation in WW II. And now we all know HOW the Original Lebanese Constitution came TO BE and WHY it was such Fiasco, Folly, and Madness.

Under Lebanon's unwritten constitutional agreement, Al Mithaq Alwatani Horse-shit, the presidency is earmarked for a Maronite; the prime minister's post is reserved for a Sunni; and the parliament speaker's post is reserved for a Shiite. In other words; only this can be that, and only that can be this. In better words, and not to cut it short: A Black Cauldron of Stupidity, Banality, Inanity, Futility, and Iniquity; spiced by Greed, Egoism, Vanity, Vice, and Corruption; and a total lack of Honour, Dignity, Decency, Diligence, and Patriotism.

Actually, Lebanon’s Constitution was first adopted on 23^rd May 1926; which makes the average decent and sensible citizen wonder whether it has ever been amended in more than eight decades, and whether the amendments were for the better or for the worse! Not only that. What have we today? A government composed of both incumbents and oppositions – like who are the gardeners and who are the watchmen? Both! Read: 290

Vichy France, or the Vichy Regime, is the common term used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. That government, which succeeded the Third Republic, officially called itself the French State, L'État Français, in contrast with the previous designation, French Republic. Marshal Philippe Pétain proclaimed the government following the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany during World War II and the vote by the National Assembly on 10^th July, 1940. That vote granted extraordinary powers to Pétain, the last Président du Conseil (Prime Minister) of the Third Republic, who then took the additional title of Chef de l'État Français: Chief of the French State. He headed the reactionary programme of the so-called Révolution nationale, aimed at regenerating the Nation.

Pétain and the Vichy regime willfully collaborated with the German occupation forces to a high degree. The French police and the state Milice or militia organised raids to capture Jews and Arabs, and other nationals considered undesirables by the Germans in both the northern and southern zones; most of whom were executed – forced to dig their own mass-graves and then shot .

It is no wonder, then, that all of the Lebanese Leaders and Politicians – from before so-called independence to date – turned out to be traitors to their country and betrayers of their people – each one worse than the one before except one, who gets worse and worse than the one before with each 6-year era of rule. Dear readers and fellow-Apes; I repeat: It was an UPSET from the ONSET, and a FART from the START.

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