Talk:Beqaa Valley

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No mention is made of confirmed hezbollah presense in bekka, no mention is made of the historical and modern role of the area for drug production, and only a minor mention of the use of the area for terrorist training... in other words, a biased and one-sided portrayal of a highly controversial and dangerous region of the world.

This article also mentions that Hezbollah advocates an Islamic state in Lebanon. However, they have long given up on this initial goal. I also agree that that the role of drug production should be mentioned here.

Sunni?

Someone is editing the article and putting all kinds of useless additions such as religions for every town. For some reason that someone is emphasizing "sunni" areas. This is highly ridiculous, and shoving religions into the article for either personal or other reasons WILL reduce the quality of the article. 89.133.10.205 (talk) 19:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Previous comments

I agree. I think the allegations about Hezbollah and the Revolutionnary Guards are complety off-target and lack any credible source. I suggest we delete this part of the article. Cheers, Keizer —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.148.1.168 (talk) 01:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

"Terror" camps

Yeah, the accusations of "terrorist" training camps deserve some mention, but come on, it's not as if an article about the Negev would need to go on and on about Israeli nuclear bomb factories, secret torture prisons, etc. It's a geography article, give it a rest. Eleland 02:47, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What makes you think that this is specifically a geography article? It's an article about the Beqaa Valley, be it geographical, socio-cultural, anthropological, historical, or anything else. I looked up the article for some information completely unrelated to geography. But I found the article to be quite biased, as has been mentioned earlier in the talk page, with an extremely narrow focus. There was very little substantiation of any facts, and there were phrases like 'a large portion' or 'many of the'. These are subjective and weak. Sorry I can't help to fix it. I have no specific knowledge of the area. Foxi tails (talk) 14:57, 28 February 2009 (UTC)foxi_tails[reply]

I agree this article should have some sociological, historical (it has this already), and political information in it. Please note I am not suggesting it needs Terror camps, I don't know if they exist there, but to be honest I came onto this article looking just for that. They are often mentioned news media, and fictional sources (obviously not a reliable source, but the point I am making is that the idea that the area produces terrorists has permeated modern day society). So I think it deserves mention, even if the facts turn out to be that they don't exist.

All that being said I feel that the geography itself can use a fair bit of work. First off, what is its official political designation, it mentions somewhere in the article about the Beqaa governate. What is that? Is it a province? State? Oversized City? Or is it just a governate, and if so I think that should be explained? (Maybe you'll disagree). What kind of governing body does it contain?

Also the demographic data, is lacking and unorganized. What is the population of the Beqaa? Their is tons of data on religion, but not even the population? Seems odd...Any who I know I made a lot of complaints here and its easy to say, "Why don't you [as in me] fix it?" And you would have a legitimate complaint. But the bottom line is, I don't even know how and am not all that interested in the topic. The only reason I made this post, is because I love wikipedia and always want to see it grow, so I gave my two cents. Hope it didn't come off as offensive. Cheers. BCapp 13:39, 13 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by BCapp (talk • contribs)

Comparisons

The first "geographical" that came to my mind - Ardennes - had a section dedicated to "going on" about the historic significance of the area as far as WW2 is concerned. Tripoly, etc... every single well known battle site has a similar section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.139.226.34 (talk) 09:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Map

The article needs a map. m.e. (talk) 03:16, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree on need for a map. — al-Shimoni (talk) 16:18, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Article should be renamed "Bekaa Valley" not 'Beqaa Valley'

Guess 'Beqaa' is being used over the easier to say: "Bekaa", to make the French feel important. Clearly many more internet results for "Bekaa" Yet again more downdumbing French nationalist spiking of English-speaking wiki pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:490:A600:AD19:9D2E:FB2E:156C (talk) 01:45, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]