Today Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries - if it remains a country at all. But paradoxically the faction-ridden Lebanese, both Christians and Muslims, have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. How can this be?
was the land god gave to Anraham and his israelite descendants in Arabia? according to recent linguistic and geographical research, the kingdom of Solomon and david, and the site of the first temple, lie not in Palestine at all but in a fertile coastal strip south of mecca. professor salibi fully expects to be met with virulent opposition in the academic world. if he is correct , centuries of biblical scholarship will collapse, throwing into disarray Israel statehood in the middle east based on the claims to the old testament kingdom