French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon that local leaders had could easily be overruled by French officials. The French did everything in their power to prevent people in the Levant from developing self-sufficient governing bodies. In 1930, France extended their constitution on to Syria. On August 3, 1920, 299 of the "Haut-commissariat de la République française en Syrie et au Liban" linked the cazas of Hasbaya, Rachaya, Maallaka and Baalbeck to what was then known as the Autonomous Territory of Lebanon. Then on 31 August 1920, General Gouraud signed Arrêté 318 delimiting the State of Greater Lebanon, with explanatory notes stating that Lebanon would be treated
Israel and state-sponsored terrorism Israel and state-sponsored terrorism The State of Israel has been accused of being a state-sponsor of terrorism. Several sovereign countries have officially alleged that Israel is a proponent of state-sponsored terrorism, including Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. 1950–1951 Baghdad bombings refers to a series of bombings of Jewish targets in Baghdad, Iraq, between April 1950 and June 1951. There is a dispute around the true identity and objective of the offenders behind the bombings, and this issue remains unresolved. Two activists in the Iraqi Zionist underground were found guilty by an Iraqi court for a number of