#lebanon

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#arab countries #countries #israel #lebanon #match

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#armed #because #christian #committed #here

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#choose #cows #either #elements #lebanon

Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#arab #camps #citizenship #done #integrated

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#immigrant #lebanon #mother #old #she

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#capable #caught #clarify #country #cycle

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#agreement #any #brings #conciliation #concludes

Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#council #effect #entrusted #guaranteeing #lebanon

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#forces #important #iran #lebanon #like