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Lebanon

Country Profile: (20 points, minus one point for each sub-point missing) A. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 1. Lebanon 2. Mediterranean; mild to cool, wet winters with hot dry summers. Mountains and permanent crops. 3.

a. Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria 33 50 N, 35 50 E Middle East b. Mountains Crops B. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 4. Republic 5. Beirut C. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY 8. Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian 3,971,941 (July 2008 est.) population Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% //note:// many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendents of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians

9. population growth range 1.154% (2008 est 17.61 births/1,000 population (2008 est.) 6.06 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)

12. School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): . GD GNP or GDP (total and per capita) 14. Labor force: 0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

17. major exports and imports 18. currency (include current exchange rate) 19. balance of trade (include amounts in US current of total exports and imports) 20. historical events (time line format only since 1980) Backround: Anti-Sentism is the hatred of the Jewish people. The term was first used by a German in 1879. said by William Marr. Although, the term "anti-semitism' is thus relatively modern, documented prejudice, social and economic isolation, persecution and violence against the Jews predates Marr and his supporters by more than 2,300 years.Jewish people are often related to this term and for over 20 decades people who have practiced Judaism were alienated, killed, and tortured. Evidence of anti-Semitism has been found in the writings of those who lived in Alexandria, a writer from Alexandra, wrote the "History of Egypt" which was the source foe many of the false accusations about Jewish religious rituals such which hace plagued Jews throughout later history.Isolated incidents of persecution against the Jews were recorded in the first century. As manu as 4,000 Jews were deported to the island of Sardinia the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. The first recorded progrom took place during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. From the Hellenistic period to The Holocaust anti-Semitism can be broken into three eras, the Classical, Christian, and lastly the Modern Anti-Semitism. The Christian anti-Semitism was caused by the anger over Jesus Christ's death and crusifixion. Modern anti-Semitism which was very prevalent during 1935 when Hitler insteted the Nuremberg Laws alienating Judasim from German Society. A new contemporary form of hatred towards Jewish has grown increasingl, therefore this issue is still a very important issue that requires a lot of work to help to decrease it or even vanish it.

UN involvement: The UN has taken a firm stance against Anti-Semitism, fighting it in many convetions and committees, hoping to bring an end to all the hatred. The National Commission on Humann Rights, along with the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, now both Known as the Fudamnetal Rights Agencies, have been eestablishing to ensure the fair right to Jewish people and have combated Anti-Setism. The Treaty on Europe Union and the European Semitism and prevent its increase. Also, the UN has established convetions Information System, which has assisted in the creation of the monitoring system that keeps the Internet clean of racial discrimination and das also combating Ati-Semitism in media and educated the population of its deeds. The General Assemblu together with the Securty Council have taken action in this situatuation.

Country Policy and Solutions: Lebanon strongly believes that Anti-Semitism is wrong and someone has to put an end to it! Therefore we would recoomend some ideas that can contribuate with the decreasing of this discrimination that has been showed during a long period of time. The conventions and committees should keep on encreasing with the help as much countries as posible making them bigger so all the world can get informed in this situation that is going on around the globe. They should teach the importance of this to majority of schools, because it seems that this influence a lot in the young ones, and the young ones is our next generation so we can all together make a change. There should also be clubs about this in schools with the funding help of countries that are willing to help.