Lebanon

Lebanon is the smallest country in the Arabic region and it is located in the heart of the Middle East. It is surrounded by Jordan, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey and Palestine. Lebanon is called in the bible “The land of milk and honey”. The capital Beirut is called “Paris of the East”. The Lebanese people came from amazing mixture of backgrounds and religious groups.
The mixture of religious and backgrounds in Lebanon was the major cause of tensions like what happened between Muslims and Christians in 1943 to 1948. In 1943 after independence, Christians Lebanese held the balance of power and Muslims had little say in running of their country. This was the main reasons that made tensions between Lebanese.
Other reason was 100000 of Palestinians (Sunni) Muslims who get out of Palestine and poured into Lebanon, but the tensions reached to the peak in 1975 when a radical Christian group “The Phalange” attacked and killed Palestinians in downtown Beirut while they are in a bus. Then killing became out of control.
As a result of civil war the army of Syria entered Lebanon divided into two groups. Muslims retreated into western half of the city while Christians occupied east Beirut. In 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut with the aim of removing the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The peace deal reached Lebanon in 1989. In that civil war, between 150 thousand to 200 thousand people died and 300000 were wounded. A quarter of population left the country and for many years Beirut’s economy was paralyzed. The disadvantages of war, the social and economic recovery in Beirut and there were four signs for that recovery. The first sign was the businessman in the Gulf States started pouring money into Lebanon in a way of investments. After that the governments invite the foreigners to rebuild Beirut. Then, all groups started living in Beirut without any problems. The last sign, many investments doing by riches countries have been done in Beirut.Nowadays, the problems returned back to Lebanon because of the major reason which is mentions before and that’s why Lebanon till now without a president.