Western Ambassador in Lebanon: her views of Shi`ites and Palestinians

A person who does not want to be identified sent me this:  "...her Arabic turned out to be good, and as I was chatting with her she revealed her hate for the Shia at more than one occasion. She was telling me, with disgust, that she doesn't like the corniche anymore because "it is obvious that the Shia took control over it with their "argileh", loud music, etc and that as a woman she doesn't feel comfortable strolling there anymore"... I mean how does she know they are Shia? How does she know they are not Sunnis from Tariq Jdideh for example? this is a very classist statement too, where else can the poor go in Beirut? She also said that "in the 70's, you would see more women on the corniche, and that women don't go there anymore because it is now too conservative". Simply not true. This is a diplomat and she was speaking at a public event with a random person, me. So imagine what she says in private meetings! She also had hate statements against the Palestinians, she told me that she was kidnapped by students from Fateh at AUB back in the 70s and was disappointed because at the time AUB was a stronghold for the Palestinians and the leftists and that she was very active in the opposition trying for example to end a strike started by the Palestinians against tuition increase because, she said "what do those Palestinians care, they are there on scholarships while my parents were paying and they have no right to disrupt my semester!". These kinds of people end up as diplomats here?!"