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Brigitte Gabriel distinguishes Christians as non-Arabs: Debunked

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Myriam Charabaty
  • 14 Oct 2023 00:43
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Islamophobe and "Israel"-apologist Brigitte Gabriel wants to push forward rhetoric against Islam during Operation Al Aqsa Flood to absolve "Israel" of its crimes and denounce the Resistance, but her rhetoric gets debunked.

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  • Brigitte Gabriel gets debunked. (Zeinab El Hajj - Al Mayadeen English)
    Brigitte Gabriel gets debunked. (Zeinab El Hajj - Al Mayadeen English)

Brigitte Gabriel, who claimed that "The difference, my friends, between Israel and the Arab world is the difference between civilization and barbarism," tries to push Israeli rhetoric through a Christian Zionist lens, but Lebanese Christians will not stand for it. Especially not amid the liberation taking place through Operation Al Aqsa Flood; as "Israel" commits genocide in the Gaza Strip but the people, including Christians, continue to support their Resistance movement.

Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.

It's where I was born.

We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.

We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.…

— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) October 12, 2023

Below is the post debunked!

Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East. It's where I was born. We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East. We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities. They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination. 

While Lebanon was a Christian-majority, the French-ordered country was only inclusive if you had enough money to be so. In 1943 the Lebanese Republic was considered an independent state and remained under French mandate until 1945. However, it was only in 1946 that the French troops withdrew from the newly independent Republic. 

Just two years later, in 1948 the Palestinian Nakba occurred and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people at the hands of Jewish Zionists began. Those who escaped the genocide are those who have lived in the Nakba and were forcefully displaced with the hope that one day they will return. 

Some of these Palestinian escaping death and occupation came to Lebanon and with them some of the richest Palestinian families such as Sursok and Bustros and others who had a positive impact on the Lebanese economy which was predominantly, by then, a rentier economy. 

The refugees were indeed Arabs who were forcefully displaced and were welcomed by another Arab republic, Lebanon. If the French mandate made it seem like Christianity is a national identity, there might be a need to reconsider as many of the Palestinian refugees at the time were indeed Christians. The Christian-Arab dichotomy is false for Christians of the region are in fact Arabs. One is a religion while the other is a national identity. 

But a turncoat to her nation would know the difference and just choose to alter the truth to entertain Israeli rhetoric pitting the Lebanese civil war as only a Muslim vs Christian war.

My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child. Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away. 

While Gabriel, whose name is Hanane Qahwaji/Nour Semaan, pitted the war to fit Israeli rhetoric, the truth was that the war was one of identity between those who wanted to make peace with the enemy and those who refused to allow that to happen and demanded the rightful liberation of Palestine and the return of its people to their land and homes without condition.

Lebanon has historically always been a multi-religious republic despite the majority-minority differences. And even today with Christians a minority, primarily thanks to the proxy wars waged by the West as well as the regional instability significantly caused by the Occupation entity, “Israel”, this remains true. 

Gabriel whose name is not even credible and has been accused of fabricating her “surviving terror” story in Lebanon, even by historians based in the US, cannot possibly find a way to spin the truth. 

Hundreds of Christians in the South of Lebanon, even in predominantly Muslim regions vouche they are living their regular lives. Even those that have grave political disagreements with their surroundings, among which is Hezbollah have a greater than needed margin for free speech without consequences.

Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. 

Once again, Christians in Lebanon are Arabs. That’s a historical fact. Several priests and patriarchs have reaffirmed this claim using historical facts. But mainly Christianity is a religion that came after Judaism and before Islam. As such the people of this region have often adopted various religions without changing their collective national identity.

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In Lebanon your religion is on your government-issued ID. 

This piece is true!

As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed. We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive. 

Primarily, the term ‘radical Islam’ was coined back in 1979 when the New York Jewish Weekly published a piece in about Carter, Sadat, and the West Bank, and the author interviewed then-US Senator Henry Martin Jackson discussing Imam Khomeini who had launched a coup again the Iranian Shah and took an anti-imperialist stance in the face of the US, Europe, and most importantly “Israel” in clear support of the Palestinian people and their right of return. 

If the enemies of “Israel” had a problem with the Israeli-allied Saad Haddad who had, if we assume some of the backstory is correct, taken off the Lebanese Army base in Marjayoun and announced it has come under the South Lebanon Army declaring war on the Lebanese Armed Forces, it sounds pretty natural that an attack would be imminent. However, this attack would not be Islamic but could have been propagated by any party or person who refused to adhere to the Israeli occupation among which were the PFLP, the SSNP, Fatah, and others, all of which, at the time were secular groups. 

Note: if the target is Hezbollah, the party had not been established until 1982.

If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today. 

Here Gabriel would be allegedly making reference to the 1978 invasion, the invasion of Lebanese territory that preceded the great invasion later in 1982.

In that sense, if “Israel” allegedly “saved” her family, it is imminent to note the family had been a traitor allied with Saad Haddad. That is a fact since after the SLA was dismantled it was revealed, as it has been expected, that the Mossad had been running the show from Amman initially before moving the headquarters of this operation to Lebanon.

Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. 

A country run by Hezbollah would not threaten Christians as the martyrs of Hezbollah that have risen in South Lebanon, North Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and Syria, proving that Hezbollah Resistance fighters would sacrifice their lives to ensure the security and safety of Christians, their churches, and their culture. As an Arab Christian, I can confirm that and numerous people, pictures, and documentaries would also confirm that much.

I lost my country of birth. I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having. 

More anti-Arab rhetoric sounds like the foreshadowing of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions. 

By the way, new documents reveal that several 9/11 operatives had ties to the CIA proving that what first sounded like conspiracy turned out to hold some truth. 

It is also important to note that as per the Lebanese constitution, any Lebanese that stands with the enemy or has contact with an Israeli is a traitor.

Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child. This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can. It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.

While this sounds like an American problem, targeting Muslims as the cause of a threat to America is in no way acceptable. America is the problem and not the victim and that’s even by the standard of a good number of Americans. Besides, as an Arab immigrant, the double standards must be heavy for you to carry. 

Read more: The Future of Arab Christians: One path, one destiny

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