interesting, there are not many people who think like me 
what church? there are many churches.
The maronite mainly since he was maronite.
His museum is now in a monastrey Mar sarkis. he always wanted
to buy it from the fransiscan brothers and after his death Gibran foundation was able to buy it for him and he was burried there. The one who has no roots has no tomorrow didnt someone say that!
yes, they do. i dont deny it. thats understandable after what they got through nearly 5 thousands years of their existance as israelis.
That is great, we agreed on this at least.
However since you find a reason for them for having a victim complex, you might try to understand why other opressed people might have the same victim complex no!?
when egypt (with the help of russia), syria, jordan and decided attacked israel USA stayed away, because russians told them if they were involving into this war russians will fully engage which may result in 3rd world war, therefore they left israel to itself to win the war.
You really believe that the US stayed away and her airforce didnt participate!!!
seriously!
its not only lebanon i had on mind. even when you bring the statistics i dont think lebanese are greatly educated since we havent seen any bright lebanese scientist contributing to humankind.
If you do not know of any that doesnt mean they do not exist.
Below are few names of lebanese world known scientists and their contribution to humanity.The wikipedia link below has some more.
You will be amazed to know that you can watch TV (TV transmission invention) due to the invention of a lebanese " and his work is patented in the US 
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
Inventor
Among the patents were reported innovations in television transmission
Elias Corey, organic chemistry professor at Harvard University and 1990 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
"for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis"
Michael Debakey - doctor and heart surgeon
"invented the roller pump, the significance of which was not realized until 20 years later, when it became an essential component of the heart-lung machine"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Philosopher of randomness, researcher, and veteran practitioner of financial mathematics
"black swan theory of unexpected rare events"
and the list goes on in all fields
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lebanese_people
the land that once was empty and abandoned today is blooming and the only democracy in the middle east.
The land was not empty as you said and there are UN reports of how many villages were destroyed and how meople displaced in 1948.
Second, how can you call it a democracy when there are 2 ranks of israeli citizens, israeli jews rank 1st and israeli non jews rank 2nd. Israeli druze for example serve in the israeli army and have members in the knesset and not matter how devoute they are and show their loyalty to the state of israel it sill considers them 2nd rank citizens and favors jews. tell me how you be called this democracy!!
I can send you a link with the israeli druze knesset member saying exactly this unfortunately it is in arabic.
If this is democracy then I understand nothing in politics.
theres no war between you and israel and why should you fight back?
Israel still occupies Shiba´a farms, a lebanese territories. Again refer to the UN maps and you will clearly see it always was lebanese land.
So as long as our land is occupied we will fight back.
i dont think french mandate was bad. it helped you to become more civilized,
You sound like the french right wing who were trying to pass a law in 2005 about the "positive value of colonialism" Luckily enough the law was repealed.
You should read Aimé Césaire, (Discours sur le colonialisme, 195
.
"Colonization, I repeat it, dehumanizes man even the most civilized one; [..] the colonial action, the colonial business, the colonial conquest, based on the contempt of the native man and justified by this contempt,tries to inevitably modify the one who adopts it; [..] the colonizing one, that, to give itself good conscience, gets used to see in the other the beast, trains to treat it as beast, tends objectively at the end to transform himself into beast"
" La colonisation, je le répète, déshumanise l’homme même le plus civilisé ; [...] l’action coloniale, l’entreprise coloniale, la conquête coloniale, fondée sur le mépris de l’homme indigène et justifiée par ce mépris, tend inévitablement à modifier celui qui l’entreprend ; [...] le colonisateur, qui, pour se donner bonne conscience, s’habitue à voir dans l’autre la bête, s’entraîne à le traiter en bête, tend objectivement à se transformer lui-même en bête. »
