What is the theme in From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman?

Adjustment and survival are key themes in this book. The terms adjustment and survival can be applied to the Lebanese situation and how they live their lives. They constantly adjust to different situations and this allows them to survive the long years of the civil war and the fighting. The Lebanese are a people used to compromise because there are seventeen different groups that comprise the population of Lebanon and they all have to compromise and make adjustments in order to survive in one country.