Let them call for liberating Palestine before making bull**** statements. And they call themselves Arabs. If the Christian Lebanese is doing more for the Palestinians than the Muslims and Arabs themselves. What a shame.

wtf you talking about? Those islands are part of U.A.E. Palestine is not part of U.A.E. so why would that be a bull**** statement? Both Iran and Israel is the main problem to the Arabian world!

And no your wrong about the christian Lebanese that is doing more for the Palestinians. Read your history, during the civil war of Lebanon, the Christians main ally was Israel.

I’m talking currently.

@ Alan: The only reason why the Lebanese Front allied themselves with Israel is because they had no ally at all and they were cornered. You simply forgot how they allied themselves with the Syrians long before that until the Syrians decided to stay. The reason I mention the Lebanese Front is because you lump ALL Lebanese Christians in one basket and that is untrue because while some Lebanese Christians were fighting along side the Israelis others were bleeding by the side of the Palestinians.
@ John: Alan is right. Those islands fall in the waters of the U.A.E. as dictated by International Laws. That said, I take offense with your statement, “(Even) the Christian Lebanese is doing more for the Palestinians than the Muslims and (the) Arabs themselves…” implying two things: First, that the Christian Lebanese is NOT expected to do more for Palestine because they (according to your statement) are not trustworthy and second, that the Christian Lebanese are not Arabs and you are totally wrong on both accounts. The Lebanese Christians fought side by side the PLO during the Civil War and before that all of them fought tooth and nail against Zionism and against the creation of the state of Israel. (Refer to the fact that in 1946 the chief Lebanese representative to the United Nations, Camille Chamoun, a Maronite, was the ONLY person defending the rights of the Palestinians while the other Arab representatives were busy dividing the remnants of what was left of Palestine amongst each others.) As to your second blunder, DNA studies showed that the Christian Lebanese carry more Arab blood in them than their fellow Moslem brothers. I hope you won’t argue against DNA evidence.
That said, I really wish, NO I honestly wish you reveal who you REALLY are and rather than hiding behind the pathetic “John” name tell us really what your real name is. Let me define you from your statement. You are not a Christian and certainly you regard yourself as a non-Arab because you obviously are defending Iran’s interests over a fellow Arab country. That leaves me with one choice. You are a confused Lebanese Shiite from the South who “thinks” that being Shiite equals being a Persian and pathetically believes that Iran gives a damn about Palestine. Let me tell you a secret. Iran cares about Iran, Syria about Syria, Israel about Israel, the Palestinians about Palestine, and it is about time we Lebanese care ONLY about Lebanon.

walid i would just love to know where you get your information from…? ARE YOU INSECURE? WHY DO YOU NEED TO DO DNA TESTING TO PROVE UR MORE ARAB THAN ANYONE ELSE? AN ARAB IS AN ARAB IS AN ARAB IS AN ARAB…CHRISTIAN MUSLIM EVEN JEW…why is everyone always trying to prove they are better than the other? ALL THE ARABS CHRISTIANS MUSLIM ARE AT FAULT AS TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE PALESTINIANS…thats the first thing that should be made clear…lebanese front allied itself with syria then israel then took out any other christian that got in there way….who killed chamoun? when you want to tell it how it is then tell it how it is…dont play saint…ALL ARABS HAVE BLOOD ON THERE HANDS….did you help the palestinians in sabra and shatila?? but you made sure all the christain palestinians got lebanese citizenship….im a christian lebanese and it makes me sick whther christian or muslim people want to still in this day and age talk about race….yet the same people claim to be march 14 or want democracy or to get rid of sectarianism….if you want to talk this way then we as christians have failed….we have failed ourselves and our country…we are the ones who hold the key positions in government and army yet what have we done…?? gmeyall allied himself with israel look wat they did to him….we bag aoun out because hes made agreements with other political parties like hzb yet phalanges and lf made agreements with other parties? until we see lebanese as lebanese we will never get over this…this is what the west wants…this is how they have enslaved us…no 1 party or religion will rule lebanon whoevere dosent believe that will is beyond ignorant…for gods sake this is the 21st century and look at the mentality that still exists….try to imagine living day by day with israeli warplanes flying above you so low that your house shakes….try to imagine living in fear that any day israel can just roll in on top of and you can do nothing…NOW PICTURE IT HAPPENING TO YOUR HOUSE AND YOUR FAMILY??????? Getting back to the article above the point that needs to be made here and this my friend walid is where WE as arabs are just parrots is WHY THE HELL IS THE UAE MAKING THIS POINT ABOUT THE ISLANDS NOW??? THAT IS THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION THAT SHOULD BE ASKED…WHY NOW? ALL THESE YEARS YET NOW THEY CHOOSE TO? BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD TO… I SUPPOSE UR GOING TO BELIEVE THE STORY ABOUT THE RECENT SUPPOSED SHIPMENT OF SCUD MISSILES FROM SYRIA TO LEBANON IS ALSO TRUE?

Walid another point…you say the syrians stayed? so did the israelis? both were bad but who was worse? have u ever been to the south…?

WOW chill out dude… As far as CAPITAL LETTERS is concerned in Internet parlant (or etiquette) it is called SCREAMING NOT emphasizing a point.
At your preaching you missed my point entirely. I am not condoning the Christians nor the Moslems. All what I am saying is I took offense at the sentence since my family (Secular Christians) bled at the side of the Palestinians and yet you still blend ALL the Christians of Lebanon together, therefore my statement emphasizing the Lebanese Front which incidentally had parties with Moslems and Druze amongst their ranks.
As to where I get my information from (very witty indeed) starting like that as if you are authoritative in that regard. My information comes from living the civil war in its entirety and being immersed in its political life.
For the record, I am for Lebanon, against both Israel and Syria or any other country for that matter meddling in our affairs.
So STOP THE YELLING and the insults. If you are insecure and you do not know who you really are there is no need of you going around and labeling others insecure. Besides, you need to go get treated for ADHD as I do not believe you understood a thing of what I said. You are just assuming what you want to see and in the process you are making an ass of you and me.

I am telling John is Jnoubi he came into the picture so he can solidify the Hezbollah stand. I don’t Iran helping Lebanon during the Syrian control other than building the Shiite Base John/Jnoubi. During the Civil war people from both sects fought alonside each other. But these island are arabs and Iran is expansianist country just Hezbollah trying to expand its control over Lebanon, eventually Syria and Iraq and Palestine and many more. Syria wants to control Lebanon and Palestine. But Iran wants to build its Persian Empire based on Waliat AL Faqih. John and anyone who sides with israel, Iran outside of Arab states who have some like UAE and Saudi have helped all of Lebanon not just one sect. If you guys like Iran so much just live there under the Muallahs and see how long you can survive. they’re killing their own people and don’t care about you or even the Shiite in Lebanon. they’re using them to get control and expand. Stop the non-sense about supporting them if you conisder yourself Arab.

Walid I wasn’t referring to all Christians, just the militia. But eff the past, today Lebanon is trying to be united because these past wars will ever happen again! As far as Iran, they really hate Arabs, they use the Shiite in Lebanon to do all their dirty work, while they threaten Israel everyday. Iran and Syria both do not recognize president Suleiman. They consider Nasrallah, the head of state which is WRONG!!!!

What are you talking about, The U.A.E. have been making this point about the islands for years!!!!! Where have you been? Just because you have first seen on yalibnan doesn’t mean it is brand new news.

Oh and make you call it the Persian Gulf not the Arabian Gulf or else Iran will yell at you!!!!!

I totally agree with you…