Lebanon was founded as a national home for the Maronites by the same forces that would sponsor the creation of a national home for the Jewish people. This was a project that reflected the aims and wishes of the Maronite patriarchate and its sponsors in the West. Look at Lebanon today: the project--simply put--failed miserably. Lebanon today is far from what it was intended to be. Apply that lesson to Palestine and safely predict the fate of Zionism. Its fate is sealed.