The Hard Truth of Jerusalem
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways - Saint Paul A week or so ago a story was circulated in Lebanese Facebook circles. Apparently, school children at the Lycee Français in Lebanon were told that Lebanon borders Israel by their French teacher. It was a hard truth for one school girl to swallow. She promptly corrected her teacher that the country that Lebanon borders to its south is “Palestine”. Of course, a search on Google Maps will reveal the hard truth to that schoolgirl. The Lebanese authorities have opened an investigation into this story and are looking into legal actions. The Arab World has been faced with hard truths for over 100 years now. And most recently when American President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish state, the whole Middle East went out in flames. You would think that this fact like the reality of Google Maps shouldn’t come as any shock...