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1- Lebanese Druze lied about their Emirs.
Fakhriddine 1 was not a noble prince. But a tax collector.
Fakhrriddine 2 was not related to Fakhriddine 1. But was Uthman son or Qurqumaz, a Kurdish ruler / warlord in Mt Lebanon (like Joumblatt today), who called his son Qurqumaz after his grandfather.
The Maronite Al-Khazen family lied about raising Fakhriddine 2 to get political power in North Lebanon.
Source: في حوار لم ينشر بعد: تزوير تاريخ لبنان واختراع فخر الدين الثاني / صقر ابو فخر
2- In the 16th to 18th century, Maronites were mostly Syrian Immigrants in support of a Syrian Nationalist movement
Maronites were mostly rich 1600s immigrants from Syria, who wanted a country of their own to separate themselves from the Syrian Alewites / Sunnis.
Original Leb Maronites were a few tribes in North Lebanon. Before the 1600s immigration to Lebanon which Fakhriddine 2 allowed.
Most old Maronite churches were built by Syrian Nationalists (e.g one in downtown built by the Syrian Maronite Debs family by a Syrian Nationalist Archbishop Joseph Debs).
Source 1: في حوار لم ينشر بعد: تزوير تاريخ لبنان واختراع فخر الدين الثاني / صقر ابو فخر
Source 2: 
www.yabeyrouth.com
3- Druze were rebelling for autonomy from the 1500s against Ottomans
So the idea of a nation of Lebanon had to come originally from the Druze in some form. But was actually established by Maronites.
Source: Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn, Rebellion, Myth Making and Nation Building: Lebanon from an Ottoman Mountain Iltizam to a Nation State (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2009)
4- Ottomans recognized Lebanon as a Druze homeland.
1800s Atlas refers to Lebanon as Durza and seperates it from Syria.
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Cedid_Atlas_%28Middle_East%29_1803.jpg
5- Phoenician identity is a made-up silly thing
It was a new identity created from 6000 year-old excavations. Lebanese didn't receive their cultural practices, customs and religious beliefs from Phoenicians.
Even the French individuals that encouraged Bachir Gemayel to go down that path made fun of him for believing what he was saying.
Lebanese culture is a mixture of Cypriot, Greek, Turkish, Syriac and Arab.
6- Shiahs were originally Eastern immigrants.
Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela reports on his visit to Lebanon in the 12th century of Shiahs in Lebanon, who he claims had squinty eyes and different facial features than Druze, Jews and Christians.
Fakhriddine 1 was not a noble prince. But a tax collector.
Fakhrriddine 2 was not related to Fakhriddine 1. But was Uthman son or Qurqumaz, a Kurdish ruler / warlord in Mt Lebanon (like Joumblatt today), who called his son Qurqumaz after his grandfather.
The Maronite Al-Khazen family lied about raising Fakhriddine 2 to get political power in North Lebanon.
Source: في حوار لم ينشر بعد: تزوير تاريخ لبنان واختراع فخر الدين الثاني / صقر ابو فخر
2- In the 16th to 18th century, Maronites were mostly Syrian Immigrants in support of a Syrian Nationalist movement
Maronites were mostly rich 1600s immigrants from Syria, who wanted a country of their own to separate themselves from the Syrian Alewites / Sunnis.
Original Leb Maronites were a few tribes in North Lebanon. Before the 1600s immigration to Lebanon which Fakhriddine 2 allowed.
Most old Maronite churches were built by Syrian Nationalists (e.g one in downtown built by the Syrian Maronite Debs family by a Syrian Nationalist Archbishop Joseph Debs).
Source 1: في حوار لم ينشر بعد: تزوير تاريخ لبنان واختراع فخر الدين الثاني / صقر ابو فخر
Source 2:
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آل دبس من الأسر الإسلاميّة والمسيحيّة البيروتيّة واللبنانيّة والعربيّة، تعود بجذورها إلى القبائل العربيّة التي توطنت في مصر وبلاد الشا
www.yabeyrouth.com 3- Druze were rebelling for autonomy from the 1500s against Ottomans
So the idea of a nation of Lebanon had to come originally from the Druze in some form. But was actually established by Maronites.
Source: Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn, Rebellion, Myth Making and Nation Building: Lebanon from an Ottoman Mountain Iltizam to a Nation State (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2009)
4- Ottomans recognized Lebanon as a Druze homeland.
1800s Atlas refers to Lebanon as Durza and seperates it from Syria.
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Cedid_Atlas_%28Middle_East%29_1803.jpg
5- Phoenician identity is a made-up silly thing
It was a new identity created from 6000 year-old excavations. Lebanese didn't receive their cultural practices, customs and religious beliefs from Phoenicians.
Even the French individuals that encouraged Bachir Gemayel to go down that path made fun of him for believing what he was saying.
Lebanese culture is a mixture of Cypriot, Greek, Turkish, Syriac and Arab.
6- Shiahs were originally Eastern immigrants.
Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela reports on his visit to Lebanon in the 12th century of Shiahs in Lebanon, who he claims had squinty eyes and different facial features than Druze, Jews and Christians.
as they have no other power to look to after being ditched by the West.