Social Issue - Lebanon

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illustrate the history of social issue Lebanon. In the bible, Lebanon was called the land of milk and honey. Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon moreover it has a nickname which is the Paris of the East. As I mentioned Lebanon is located in the East and there are five countries which surround it, there are Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Israel and Cyprus. In this essay I will write about the modern history and Lebanon now.

Lebanon gained independence from France in 1943. Although that contributed to increased tensions between Muslims and Christians, because both of them want to take the presidency and government. The circumstance (situation) of Lebanon was very bad and every time there where criminal cases happened. In fact, the tensions reached their peak; in 1975 the Christian groups attacked and killed a bus full of Muslims people which made them to start fighting killing each other. However, there were no a control situation that both groups Muslims and Christians fighting, until they separated the land into two parts, the Muslims in Western and Christians in East Beirut. However, in 1982 Israeli forces attacked areas along Beirut’s seafront (The Cornice). In addition, Lebanon had reached a peace deal in 1989. Unfortunately, there were the human and economic costs of the conflict, a round 650,0000 people died and were wounded during the civil war. Also there economy was paralyzed.

To sum up, Lebanon now is more different than before. Really there is a big change; Muslim’s or Christian’s boy / girl may have a boyfriend / girlfriend from each other without any religious intolerance. Moreover, the traders are exercising their trade in several regions, and without fear of riots and crimes. All Lebanon population are not talking about the issue any more and they didn’t mention that even in their life.