c, Greek, Roman, French, Arabic, Turkish and English (to name but a few), and yet they are neither Greeks, nor Romans or Turks, so why brand them as Arabs??
Lebanese were guests to all of those languages, and yet they enriched all of them and left on all of them their noble markings, their warm inflections and their passionate timber. To stamp the Lebanese with the epithet Arab, simply because they happen to speak Arabic today, is to force them to conform to a certain era, a certain time, and a certain political direction, when in fact they are timeless, eternal and universalistic. Conforming the Lebanese to the will and whim of the hegemon of the day is to emasculate their rich and vibrant history; it is to cheat and pervert the history of mankind to which they remain the most faithful, consistent and selfless contributors. Let us remember that the Arabs are relatively newcomers to the Levant. Their advent and subsequent settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean are but a novel and ephemeral incidence in the history of mankind, and their being the cultural hegemon of the day should not stultify or dwarf in any way the presence of other nati
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