In a totally unrelated event:
4162 new members were sworn in to the Phalanges; a right-wing Christian
party, which – by his own admittance – was created by Pierre Gemayel after
being so severely impressed by the Nazi Youth in the 1936 Olympics.
In a totally unrelated event:
“The Christians are the ones who lost the most from the July 2006 war!”
“How can you say that? As a Shiite who had family dying in the south I re-
sent that. I myself lost my entire house in the southern suburb. The furniture
alone cost more than one hundred thousand Dollars!”
“Well, my father’s shop stopped working because of the war!”
“Well, my father doesn’t have a shop any longer, it was totally destroyed!”
“Anyway, you Shiites never paid for electricity. Christians were paying dou-
ble their bills to cover for you.”
“Well, I could have shown you the receipts but they were burned with the
house!”
In a totally unrelated event:
(Daily Star, 15 December 2006) Abu Ahmed has cleaned his Kalashnikov,
and as a Sunnite says: “It was put away in a nylon case, I cleaned with diesel.
I have about 500 rounds. They say they don’t want a civil war or a sectarian
war, but if they made a mistake and there was blood, there will be blood in
return.”
In a totally related event:
25% of a class of 40 people believes that a civil was will happen.