On Aug. 31, 1982, an air duel between a Syrian and an Israeli plane took place in Lebanese skies. The Syrian fighter crashed and a thick column of smoke rose into the sky over Beirut. (Credit: Sam Mazmanian/L'Orient-Le Jour archives)
Lebanon's contemporary history is a battlefield. Passed on from one generation to the next, lived, survived, relived for decades. Each time, the same fear, the same destruction takes hold. Sometimes it's death, often exile. Although not everyone agrees on their story, everyone has a part to tell. The executioners are alike, as are the victims. What they all have in common is that they were born in a country that knows no respite.Torn apart by the civil war from 1975 to 1990, Lebanon was not yet back on its feet when it experienced a new, shorter war: The thirty-three-day combat with Israel in the summer of 2006. The children of war have become adults. Today, as Lebanon sinks into a never-ending economic, social and political crisis over the past five years, the war with its southern aggressor returns. The children of the new millennium...
Lebanon's contemporary history is a battlefield. Passed on from one generation to the next, lived, survived, relived for decades. Each time, the same fear, the same destruction takes hold. Sometimes it's death, often exile. Although not everyone agrees on their story, everyone has a part to tell. The executioners are alike, as are the victims. What they all have in common is that they were born in a country that knows no respite.Torn apart by the civil war from 1975 to 1990, Lebanon was not yet back on its feet when it experienced a new, shorter war: The thirty-three-day combat with Israel in the summer of 2006. The children of war have become adults. Today, as Lebanon sinks into a never-ending economic, social and political crisis over the past five years, the war with its southern aggressor returns. The children of the new millennium...
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