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Lebanon is falling apart and the Lebanese have had enough , says PM Salam

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PM salamPrime Minister Tammam Salam  warned that Lebanon is is falling apart because of differences between the rival political parties and their failure to resolve controversial issues.

In an interview with the Washington Post  Salam said that the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon “are a burden because they share our electricity, our water, our schools, our roads, our commerce, our jobs — and yes, the Lebanese  have had enough  and are tired of this situation .”

“But the (real) breakdown in Lebanon will take place because of the inability to solve the problems of the country, like the garbage issue and others,” he said.

The garbage crisis erupted when Lebanon’s largest landfill in Naameh was closed on July 17. Trash began piling up on the streets, leading to anti-government demonstrations.

The main activist group behind the protests is the “You Stink” movement.

“I can’t blame them at all,” Salam told his interviewer about the protesters.

“I respect their anger, because it is emanating from a reality: the weakness in almost everything as a result of the stalemate the country is going through — the incapability  of electing a new president for the past year and four months, the paralysis of legitimate institutions like the parliament, and the paralysis also seeping through to the Cabinet ,” he said.

Asked about the vacuum at the Baabda Palace, Salam said: “Solving the problem in Lebanon requires much less effort. It only requires the international big powers and the regional ones to get together and say, “Yes, we will support this guy as a president,” and things will start moving.”

Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when president Michel suleiman’s term expired .

MP Michel Aoun  and his backers in the Hezbollah -led March 8 alliance do no have enough votes to get him to the  Baabda Palace and that is why they have been boycotting the election sessions for fear that  the Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea will be elected  as the president  with simple majority.

Geagea has been blaming Iran for the presidentail vacuum

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17 responses to “Lebanon is falling apart and the Lebanese have had enough , says PM Salam”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    To some extent, still not openly admitting the ‘sectarian structure’ as well as the Tribalism is what the ‘You Stink’ people are really talking about. No-one wants to admit that it can never actually work.
    And WHY NOT anyone else but Geagea or the Loon. Is there NO OTHER ??? But this is not a ‘vote by the people’ sort of place anyway …

    1. Andre Avatar
      Andre

      Lebanon’s pawns are moved by external players, it always was and will always be. This movie will keep looping, unless we remove this obstacle, in the form of corrupt criminal government officials, and overhaul the weak government.

      He lives it and knows it too well: “It only requires the international big powers and the regional ones to get together and say, “Yes, we will support this guy as a president,” and things will start moving.””

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        “it always was and will always be”
        Exactly.

        1. O Avatar
          O

          You never were (human) and never will be.
          Exactly!

  2. O Avatar
    O

    It fell apart the day you let the hezbo terrorists terrorise the Lebanese.

  3. Reasonableman Avatar
    Reasonableman

    Without international influence, Lebanon will be annexed before you can say hezballah. It’s economy is too weak to mantain just a police force.
    With international influence lebanon will remain a pawn and unstable battle ground for war lords and terrorist russia and the west.

    Either way all in their chairs at the moment lose nothing, instability means keeping an income whilst avoiding becoming a mini iran(in the short term).

    Lebanon need to get it’s hands dirty and strike a deal with the sunni rebels as they are the overall majority of the arab region, they are the ants at work. The sooner HA get out of border towns and let the lebanese army take over the better. Their (HA) presence is merely a blockade to any sort of political progress under the blanket term “security”.

    1. canaanite Avatar
      canaanite

      The Lebanese state has lost all its weight. It does not matter anymore whether Lebanon elects a president or not. It does not matter who is in the cabinet or whether parliament extends its term to eternity. Lebanese security agencies were further weakened and have become irrelevant. Lebanon’s Central Bank stopped issuing statements, prompting Fitch Agency to accuse it of “insufficient disclosure.”

      Today, Lebanon’s debt stands at 134% of GDP and its service consumes 40% of governmental revenues. No one knows who underwrites this debt or who pays the price if, like Greece and Puerto Rico, Lebanon suddenly fails to borrow more to feed and service its debt.

      Other than Hezbollah’s plan to kill all Sunnis, and maybe Christians, etc., non-Hezbollah Lebanese have no plan of their own. Aside from correctly criticizing Hezbollah for its endless wars, non-Hezbollah politicians offer nothing other than squabbling and gossip.

      Since 1985, a few politicians have dominated the Lebanese scene. ‘The Doctor,’ Samir Geagea; ‘the General,’ Michel Aoun; ‘the Mister,’ Nabih Berri; and ‘the Beik,’ Walid Jumblatt. Add a few smaller players like Franjiyeh, Gemayel and Karami and the scene is complete.

      Over the past 40 years, the Lebanese have watched Geagea, Aoun, Berri, Jumblatt and others bicker over petty issues. Their fans and media outlets echo these silly fights, oblivious to the fact that there is no substance to their endless debates.

      Other than Hezbollah’s war plans, there have been no policies in Lebanon since 2005. From time to time, the government haphazardly enforces laws, like a short-lived smoking ban or a surge in health inspection over the food industry. But the shelf lives of these policies are usually as short as news media cycles.

      As the Middle East disintegrates into mini-statelets and the once strong central governments as in Baghdad and Damascus fade into oblivion, Lebanon has effectively decomposed into ethno-sectarian communities. Some minorities, like the Druze, are scared that the new order might jeopardize their safety. Their leader, Jumblatt, has been trying to befriend the Shiites killing machines to avoid their wrath.

      In public life, policies and politics are two different concepts. A policy is a set of principles that those in power announce and enact to achieve certain outcomes. Politics is the debate among those who are in power, or who are seeking power, usually over policies. After Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1992, late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was the only politician with a plan. He offered policies to transform Lebanon from a war-torn country into a hub for services, tourism and investments. Politics, however, forced Hariri to pay a hefty price for his policies.

      Hezbollah stands as the only Lebanese Iranian group with a plan: to transform the country into a replica of Iran; a pariah state at odds with the international system and with universal concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty.

      The Christians, for their part, are so busy bickering that they have not even sniffed danger. Christian bickering has made their leaders, Aoun and Geagea, fail to see that they are fighting over a sinking ship. By the time Aoun and Geagea finally quit their spitting contest over who is more popular, the Christian enclave will have shrunk so much as to be too small to fit the egos of Aoun and son-in-law His Excellency Gebran Bassil.

    2. basetihs Avatar
      basetihs

      Persian cabalistic-Gnostic heresy within Islamic civilization goes back to the time of the Hurufi movement in Persia in the eighth century A.D. from within the Imami. It is the absolute basis of the Ismaeli heresy which has totally corrupted Egypt and Saudia Arabia down to the present. From Persia it spread to Turkey and became the Bektasiyya, who were totally immersed in Jewish Kabbalah. Centuries later Sabbatai Zvi was received there in Turkey by the Persian Shi’ite Muslim Bektasiyya, which predisposed the Sultan of Turkey to receiving and becoming the patron of Sabbatai Zvi. This led to Sabbateanism. The original, and still the core heresy and movement, is Persian-Iranian Shi’ism. It is the basis for ALL Zionism for the last 12 centuries. It is the Sephardic Zionist core and is who entrapped the Khazar Ashkenazim into Talmudic Judaism. When you speak of Iran, you are talking about the absolute basis and rulers of the synagogue who control all of Zionist Israel. There are more Rabbis in Iran than in most Jewish enclaves in the world. In short, the Jews in Israel will not attack themselves in Iran. It won’t happen. That idea is just a way to distract from what they will really do.

      Iran is already, and has been via Shi’ism, part of the Sabbatean Judeo-Illuminati New World Order for a long time. It will not be attacked. Red China and Russia will protect it. The United States will allow it to do whatever it wants. The Illuminati European New World Order has already, for a very long time, been ensconced there.

      Iran is very important to the Jews and the European Illuminati because it is central via its Shi’ism to the attack to subvert Islam from within. The Illuminati will not allow that to be changed by any attacks on Iran.

      Rumors about attacking Iran are just a dog and pony show the elites put on.

      1. Barry Avatar
        Barry

        I see that you are reprinting an online article that has been floating around for a while. Can I just mention a couple of things: Shabbati Tzvi converted to Islam and was lost to Judaism. His followers kept up an underground crypto Judaism for a while and then died out everywhere but a few folks in Salonika. They had no influence whatever on Islam.
        There are not more rabbis in Iran than anywhere in the world.
        The Khazar story is most likely a myth made up by Judah Ha Levy in the Middle Ages as a “my far away brother will beat you up if you don’t leave me alone” threat to Christians and Muslims in Spain, where he was from. Like Prester John to Christians. Ashkenazim have almost identical genetic makeup of Arabs in greater Hebron area of West Bank since they were the last Jewish holdouts to convert 300 or so years ago.
        the rest of your reblog is a fever dream that, if addressed, gives it more credence than it deserves.
        Bottom line: Jews are not behind Middle East wars. It is Sunni vs Shiite, neither of which is influenced by or favored by Jews, Israel or Judaism.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Good to have ‘updates’. 😉

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          That’s what the eternal name changing Guest Majoous (O partner) does); “reprinting”, when he’s not spamming porn obscenities to Shia Christians and Jews..

  4. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    “Among the many revelations leaked in the cables are the implications of what Saudi Arabia’s money had done for both Lebanese politics and journalism. According to cable- ‘doc36598‘ -, Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), a Christian political party and part of the March 14 Alliance, sent a representative to request financial assistance from the Saudi government. Geagea is quoted as saying “I’m broke. I’m ready to do what the kingdom demands.” The request was made via an LF representative, Elie Abou Assi, who reported “difficulty of the financial situation of the party and to a certain extent have become unable to secure the salaries of employees in the party.”

    Lebanese blogger Ramez Dagher of Moulahazat summarized it as such:

    This cable is the diplomatic proof that Saudi Arabia helped the Lebanese Forces in their finances. In it, the Saudi foreign minister Saoud Al Faisal tells us that Samir Geagea’s man Elie Abou Assi met the Saudi ambassador and told him that the LF are struggling financially especially that they are countering two pro-Syrian foes (the Maronite patriarch and Aoun) and that Geagea is ready to travel to the KSA in order to solve the financial issues. The ambassador also said that the LF were ready to do as the Kingdom says. The wise Foreign minister also suggested that Sunni politicians be invited too (probably so that it doesn’t look fishy).

    1. O Avatar
      O

      lol your hypocrisy is hilarious.
      The fact you are openly a hypocrite and still liked by some just shows how low you and then are.
      You all know who you are.

  5. Bilal Faraj Avatar
    Bilal Faraj

    Its so weird how Lebanese people are al like the devils
    advocate, throwing claims and gossips about the you stink movement. Its a
    culture where these politicians had nourished and fed each in his territory to
    differentiate between us and use our emotions for their concerns, a culture of
    no trust between the Lebanese people. Who can deny that there is no real mistrust
    between us!!

    We all had trusted this regime for tens of years and with no
    use. Why should we offend and attack each other! Why can’t we discuss and
    negotiate in a more civilized manner, its really embarrassing to cause damage
    to public areas or to beat up the protestor for expressing their point of view
    and use inappropriate words to humiliate them!! Why should we keep our trust to
    those same people who were the incubators of every war and pain that the
    Lebanese had suffered from. I see that what is happening today is due to the
    fault in the national charter which our country was built on, Presidency is not
    Limited to anyone as well as any other governmental position that should not be
    limited to any single party or a cult or a sect. That’s because Lebanese
    political sectarianism, that is what politicians are using to bisect the
    country and suppress its real power. People are not to be held 100% liable for
    their acts, we all had ben manipulated by those politicians and political party
    leaders.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      And this is your very first comment?

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