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"en.20050310.19.4-144"2
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"Parliament has just passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. That is a positive step, but it does not go far enough. The re-establishment of Lebanese independence also requires that those Lebanese who were forced to leave their country should be able to return and that all political prisoners, prominent among whom is Samir Geagea, should be set free.
However, the majority of Members who voted in favour of a text defending the sovereignty of Lebanon are the same ones who are striving to dismantle the sovereignty of our own nations within the Europe of Brussels; a Europe without borders, open to immigration from anywhere in the world.
Lebanon lost its sovereignty as a result of massive immigration. The arrival, in the early 1970s, of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians shattered the demographic equilibrium between Moslems and Christians – to the detriment of the latter, who became a minority in their own country.
The resulting civil war served as a pretext for Syria to occupy Lebanon and put an end to its sovereignty. Today, the presence of 500 000 Syrian immigrants is a serious obstacle to the restoration of independence to the country.
The disaster of Lebanon is proof: woe betide a country which loses its identity and sovereignty."@en1
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