Lebanon’s Social Problems Essay

Lebanon is a very beautiful country and an important destination for tourism. Lebanon or as the bible called it once The land of milk and honey. Beirut is the capital of the country and its also nicknamed Paris of the East. Famous race are originally half Lebanese such as the well known Columbian artist Shakira. There are five countries which surround Lebanon which are Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus & Palestine (Israel).Several problems started to appear in Lebanon. In 1943-1948 after France got out from Lebanon the Christians took the balance of power in the country while Muslims havent more of a power back then, this caused some tensions between those two. The tension reached its limit in 1975 when a radical Christian group attacked a bus mount of Palestinians and killed them. After this incident, some vengeful attacks were made as a respond for the Christians actions which led to more hate and no trust at all between Muslims and the other group.After seven years, exactly in 198 5 The Israeli army invaded Beirut to remove the Palestinians Liberation Organization as they said. All those wars and conflicts and wars in the urban center and in the country in general led to very serious and sad results. Between 150-200 thousand people were killed while 300 thousand were wounded, that goes for the kind-hearted cost but as for the economic cost was very heavy and it actually was paralyzed for many years which stroke hard to the whole country. The sleep has finally come in 1989 which put off the furious flames of war.In the recent days, Lebanon began to recover from that savagery conflict which led to no social function but decease and sadness. People came back to their homes after they left it because of the war. The buildings which were affected by the conflict are restored by the help of some other countries. The most important thing that tourism is finally revived and people now can enjoy everything in Beirut after the horror the city lived in the past som e(prenominal) years. Tourists can relax and enjoy Skiing on the mountains, taking sunbath on the beach and also swim in the blue sea.