What is not happening in Lebanon « Free Cow. Syrian crisis spreads to Lebanon.
A common headline that one will see flourish in the coming days. As usual, it is difficult to know what exactly is happening in the country. Anti- Assad “salafis” get arrested by security services while lured into recovering social care money Sunni clerics suddenly forget to stop at army checkpoints and get killed And shiites pilgrims get caught by Free Syrian Army in Syria while travelling from Iran in a bus. And armed psychopaths goes amok against the army and throws grenades from their balconies in the middle of the night over a girlfriend dispute… Of primary importance is to understand, state, underline, highlight, precise, or describe any origin, religion, nationality or ethnic background of any of the people involved.
Thus, it becomes nearly impossible to understand what is happening in Lebanon. First there is no “Syrian crisis hitting Lebanon”. What happens in Syria is not a crisis and what happens in Lebanon is not a revolution. Le Liban par Frencheagle. La France est déjà présente au Liban, notamment par son contingent déployé au sein de la FINUL au Sud Liban Le président de la république libanaise Michel Sleiman a annoncé hier soir, à l’issue des cérémonies de funérailles des victimes de l’attentat qui a endeuillé le Liban la semaine dernière, le don de 3 milliards de dollars de l’Arabie Saoudite pour équiper l’armée libanaise.
La France met fort de mettre en avant sa coopération historique avec le Pays des Cèdres. Selon le contrat ainsi négocié et cela pour peut-être éviter les traditionnels bakchichs aux politiciens libanais, l’Arabie Saoudite versa directement cette somme à la France qui livrera en retour le matériel commandé. Hélicoptère d’attaque Gazelle de l’Armée Libanaise. Cet hélicoptère d’attaque est dépourvu des missiles antichars Hot. Une aide en raison de la lutte d’influence entre Iran et Arabie Saoudite? Liban : Chroniques beyrouthines – Depuis Beyrouth, le blog de de.
The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog. Politicians can’t do anything to change the situation in Tripoli, but that’s not why the people are complaining.
–Tripoli at Night, photo by Haytham Kabbara Every time someone complains on Facebook or on Twitter that Lebanese Politicians are doing nothing for Tripoli, I feel a mixture of emotions. On one hand, I find it absurd that people are asking politicians to fix a situation they are completely powerless to fix. Saying politicians should do something about the war in Tripoli is as absurd as saying that politicians should do something about the war in Syria. The situation is too complex to be “fixed”; all politicians can do at the moment is to back one horse or the other, warlords on the streets answer to higher forces than some powerless man in a suit. Even the Army is powerless; as I’ve argued before, the army would lose a lot if it deployed an “Iron Fist” policy: Another part of me however believes that the complainers are right. Mr.