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Lebanon garbage crisis in cartoons

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The crisis over Lebanon’s waste collection has been parodied in Lebanese newspapers and on social media. Cartoons, some with a political message, show how the event is being seen by an exasperated population. Here is a selection of some of the treatments.

‘Absence of the state’ – An-Nahar newspaper

The image on the right shows sandbags in 1975, the year that Lebanon’s Civil War broke out. On the left, the same scene, only with rubbish sacks.

An-Nahar newspaper

Time-bomb – Al-Joumhouria newspaper

Cartoon depicting a rubbish bag with a lit fuse as a bomb ready to go off.

Cartoon from Lebanese Christian Al-Joumhouria newspaper depicting a trash bag with a lit up wick

“The solution lies in sorting rubbish” – Al-Joumhouria

Green bin: “Political waste”; Yellow: “Terrorist waste”; Red: “Sectarian waste”

Cartoon from Al-Joumhouria newspaper depicting a man standing in front of three rubbish bins

Ad-Dabbour magazine

Woman: “You didn’t tell me where you live… ”

Man-sized rat: “Under your house, in the trash pile”

Cartoon from Ad-Dabbour magazine

Reimagined flag

Twitter users have also used images to react to the crisis, including reversioning the national flag by replacing the traditional cedar tree with a pile of waste…

Twitter image depicting the flag of the Lebanon with the tree in the middle replaced by a pile of trash

… a green refuse sack…

Twitter image depicting the flag of the Lebanon with the tree in the middle replaced by a green trash bag

… and a giant nose

Twitter image depicting the flag of the Lebanon with the tree in the middle replaced by a green contour of a nose

BBC

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8 responses to “Lebanon garbage crisis in cartoons”

  1. Cumtessa Abyad Avatar
    Cumtessa Abyad

    https://www.google.co.il/search?q=Lebanon+garbage+crisis+cartoon&client=ubuntu&hs=RJg&channel=fs&tbm=isch&imgil=wE_uACATIBcvSM%253A%253BGrADnEMDpAz_IM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.cagle.com%25252F2015%25252F07%25252Fgarbage-crisis%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=wE_uACATIBcvSM%253A%252CGrADnEMDpAz_IM%252C_&biw=1280&bih=668&usg=__ReGsTgxobIb4EK-kQl5gz3wQejU%3D&ved=0CC0QyjdqFQoTCKze1u2-0McCFYR-cgodRWwBQA&ei=jcziVezjDIT9yQPF2IWABA#imgrc=wE_uACATIBcvSM%3A&usg=__ReGsTgxobIb4EK-kQl5gz3wQejU%3D

    1. O'Matrix Avatar
      O’Matrix

      Lebanon garbage crisis threatens to pollute Mediterranean.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/516722707a189746d230e169f68e32d503a917daa85b8eadfa165dcd6e7bae70.jpg
      Lebanon’s garbage crisis is becoming a threat to the entire Mediterranean environment, according to a number of the country’s leading experts and academics.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Rainy season begins … they hope it flushes away to the Med … Mount Sidon leaks into it all the time anyway … and the Leather-Tanning factories will have the River in Tripoli running red again.
        All of it is ‘Illegal’ …. but that never stopped anything going on, and on, and on.

  2. William Petro Avatar
    William Petro

    this is not funny, and the future movement will pay for this, machnouk will lose his job over this!

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      But cartoons say a lot in one picture … one gets the idea fast and easy without reading. And THAT’s what cartoonists DO. Accurately, most of the time. 😉

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        I like this one … the poor are not eating as well as this …

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Speaking of propaganda and ‘LOBBYS’ …
    “Time has not sapped the clout of the Zionist Lobby. Never the political force of anti-Semitic claims, yet the myth of a lobby powerful enough to bend the will of government to what opponents consider unpatriotic interests – Jewish interests – remains a handy cudgel for the right moment. Heads of state still keep the Jewish scare on ice to blame for big disruptive acts. War and bogus Zionist power go together like horse and chariot. Monarchs and icons of the past found it so.”
    “Was there no limit to blameworthiness? It seemed not when a member of Europe’s parliament traced climate change to the bogeyman.”
    “President Obama is as wrong about American history as he is about policy. Many foreign leaders have tried to influence US foreign policy when their national interests are involved.” Dershowitz went on to observe that Obama himself invited British Prime Minister Cameron to influence US Congressmen to support the Iran deal.“
    “….. a book titled The Arab Lobby: the Invisible Alliance.”
    “In the West two monolith lobby groups, one pro-Israel and the other anti, vie to sway policy and opinion. The Anti-Zionist boycott lobby, under the umbrella of BDS, vies with a pro-Zionist lobby under the umbrella of Jewish communal bodies. Both lobby groups are legitimate. Why pillory the Zionist lobby and not the adversary? A small yet economically influential Jewish minority has a perfect right to try its hand at arm-twisting.”
    “Even taxpayer money helps to oil the wheels of the anti-Zionist lobby. And why not! The Muslim component of Europe is massive and vocal; trade with the Arab world is gigantic, while the threat of terrorism hovers over Europe like the sword of Damocles.
    And that surely is the essence of lobbying: asking policy makers to pay a price by confronting them with a credible threat.”
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17472#.VeLBQOlvB0c

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Can ‘the people’ with no money, successfully ‘Lobby’ their government to effect NEEDED changes??
      Or, at least, get the garbage OUT?

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