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A Sad End to France's Lebanese Adventure
2021-05-16
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian did not let down those who had expected his short "warning" visit to Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
to end the way it did. It proved, indeed, that he who has nothing can offer nothing.

What happened has proven beyond any doubt that Gay Paree could offer nothing as long as it has two different sets of definitions for: religious and sectarian extremism, occupation, illusory sovereignty, the people’s right to honest living, corruption and conspiring against coexistence and "institutional state".
Posted by:Fred

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