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From: An Ultra Orthodox Maronite
Date: 09 May 1999
Time: 13:20:58
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Sa'adeh wrote: Our Social Nationalist ideology is a social thing and the Lebanese entity is a political thing and we do not confuse the two..."
I am glad the late Saade did not confuse the two as all SSNPers on this forum do.
Then he wrote "...If utility or political conditions required that the Lebanese entity needed to become an actual, physical entity, the question from this aspect remains a purely political one and there is no justification to turn it into a national issue..."
You're damn right Mr. late Antoon Saade! Your whole party has no justification whatsoever to turn our Maronite Political Identity into a national issue. So leave the Maronites alone the way they view their history and above all the way they want to practice their FREEDOM OF WORSHIP away from Islamic threats.
But that's exactly what all SSNPers dismiss, it's the Greek orthodox political inferiority complex that is the driving force to stifle the Maronites from a political stand point!
From its inception, the SSNP showed a rare skill at making bad decisions: in contrast with the transcendent, secularist, big-tent goals of its founder Antoun Saadeh, the party has never missed a chance to involve itself in petty local squabbles - most famously against the Maronite Phalangists in Lebanon. During Lebanon's civil war, the SSNP became one of many militias, its nation-building agenda lost in the struggle to stay on top of the scrap heap. It was exactly the wrong behavior for a party that always existed more as an idea than a political force.