For the Kataeb Party there are two main substitutes for the garbage plan -- using a remote piece of land in the
Anti-Lebanon Mountains and decentralizing waste management.
Summary: "I solemnly proclaim the state of Greater Lebanon and in the name of the French Republic; I recognize its sovereignty and extent from the Al-Kbir River to the borders of Palestine and the summits of the
Anti-Lebanon mountains."
The ultimate consequence could be a protracted presence of radical extremists who have redeployed to the
Anti-Lebanon mountains.
However, some believe that the harsh winter weather, which will blanket the eastern
Anti-Lebanon Mountains in snow, may actually reduce the amount of fighting on the border.
Sam Small, ejected over the
Anti-Lebanon Mountains. They landed in the Western Bek where they were set upon by a crowd of excited Lebanese who believed them to be Israelis, before they handed them over to the authorities.
"The Bekaa Valley is a beautiful place [for wine]," says Derenoncourt of the alluvial plateau resting between Mount Lebanon and the
Anti-Lebanon mountains atop a bed of limestone.
At the northern edge of the Bekaa Valley, hemmed in by Mount Lebanon and the
Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west and east, 20 Lebanese families in Qasr, a border town meters from Syria, live as refugees.
Above the black silhouette of the
Anti-Lebanon mountains, Jupiter shone with spotlight intensity, dominating the fainter stars dusting the night sky.
Before the uprising erupted in Syria in mid-March, relations were cordial between the Syrian soldiers billeted on the mountain tops and the impoverished farming communities strung along the foot of the
Anti-Lebanon mountains north of Anjar.