Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Fri 03/29/2024 View Thu 03/28/2024 View Wed 03/27/2024 View Tue 03/26/2024 View Mon 03/25/2024 View Sun 03/24/2024 View Sat 03/23/2024
2021-09-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US Senator: Lebanon Must Not Become 'Horror Story'
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] 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, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
is in free fall and must not become a "horror story", a US senator said during a visit to Beirut on Wednesday, voicing hope that a government would be formed this week to start addressing its destabilizing financial meltdown.

Another senator in the US congressional delegation said Iranian fuel being shipped to Lebanon by Hezbollah would come with strings attached, dismissing it as an attempted "photo-op by the Iranians".

"Lebanon is in free fall...We've seen this movie before and it's a horror story..., but the good news is it can, should, and hopefully will be avoided," Senator Richard Blumenthal told news hounds at the end of a two-day visit.

Lebanese politicians, who have failed to do anything to arrest the collapse, have been squabbling for more than a year over the make-up of a new cabinet to replace the one that quit in the aftermath of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion.

A new cabinet capable of implementing reforms is a necessary precursor to foreign aid. The United States is the biggest foreign aid donor to Lebanon.

The congressional delegation met Lebanese leaders including President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
, who expressed hope the government would be formed this week, the presidency said in a statement.

"We did hear good news today," Senator Chris Murphy (D., Qom)
...Junior senator for life from Connecticutt, foreign policy mastermind, a fast friend and a sympathetic ear to mullahs, ayatollahs, and similar riff-raff. The indigestable boilerplate on his website sez he has has dedicated his career to public service as an advocate for Connecticut families, which means approximately nothing. He's been a strong voice in the Senate fighting for job creation, affordable health care, education, sensible gun laws, and a forward-looking foreign policy. You can guess what that mess actually means, though the voters of Connecticutt seemingly can't...
, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee panel dealing with the Middle East, told news hounds, adding he expected a government would be formed by the time he returned home.

Aoun's adversaries accuse him and his faction, the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
, of obstructing the government formation by demanding a third of the seats, or effective veto power.

Aoun denies this. Aoun told the senators "many obstacles had been overcome", the presidency said.

The United States has been in talks with Egypt and Jordan over a plan to ease Lebanon's power crisis. The Lebanese presidency has said it involves using Egyptian gas to generate power in Jordan that would be transmitted via Syria, which is under US sanctions including the so-called Caesar act.

"The complication as you know is the transport via Syria," said Senator Chris Van Hollen. "We are (urgently) looking for ways to address that despite the Caesar act."

Posted by Fred 2021-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
 File under: Hezbollah 

#1 Lebanon Must Not Become 'Horror Story'

Chris Van Hollen has, IMO, problem with time tenses.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-03 08:25||   2021-09-03 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone should remind our B-League Senators that the Egyptian Pipeline to Syria has been bombed by Egyptian Islamists more than a dozen times in the last decade. In sum, it is practically worthless. If Lebanon weren't dominated politically by Hizbollah Lebanon and Israel would now be sharing the natural gas resource developed in the Med. Hell, Lebanon already IS a 'Horror Story.'
Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-03 09:14||   2021-09-03 09:14|| Front Page Top










Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com