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This mental contagion was exacerbated by the fact that Robert Fisk calls "hotel journalism." If in the past journalism Lebanon was part of the Levant, i.e. the Eastern Mediterranean, it now suddenly became part of the Middle East, as if someone managed to move it closer to the Sands of Saudi Arabia. The island of Cyprus, situated about sixty miles from my village in Northern Lebanon, with an almost identical kitchen, faith and customs, suddenly became part of Europe (of course, local residents on both sides have undergone appropriate psychological treatment). First trait was carried out between Mediterranean and non-Mediterranean (i.e., between olive oil and butter), and in 1970-e years she has divided the world into Europe and non-Europe. Since the border between them marked a Islam, nobody knew where to take the Arab Christian (and Jewish) religion.