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Thread: Despite blast disaster, Trump sanctions Lebanon.

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    Default Despite blast disaster, Trump sanctions Lebanon.

    Iran calls on US to lift sanctions on Lebanon, urges against ‘politicizing’ Beirut blast




    Tehran has cautioned against politicizing the devastating blast in Beirut, arguing that Washington should drop sanctions on Lebanon if it is serious about helping the nation recover from the catastrophe.
    “If America is honest about its assistance offer to Lebanon, they should lift sanctions [against it],” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday during a news conference.

    https://www.rt.com/news/497577-iran-...lebanon-blast/
    Wtf has Lebanon ever done to Trump ? Oh..wait----it opposes Izraeli occupation.

    What a gutless prosemitic country the US has become.
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    Trump should stay out of the way and let France take the lead on this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Trump should stay out of the way and let France take the lead on this.
    The French were, until recently- OCCUPIERS of Lebanon. The Lebanese got rid of them and don't want them back.
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    Don't expect any meaningful changes until Jan 2021
    Lock Him Up

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    The French were, until recently- OCCUPIERS of Lebanon. The Lebanese got rid of them and don't want them back.
    I think France wants to circumvent the 5 Klan Families that are in control of the Government. Actually getting Food & Medicine to the People and avoiding the Graft and Corruption of the Government.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    I think France wants to circumvent the 5 Klan Families that are in control of the Government. Actually getting Food & Medicine to the People and avoiding the Graft and Corruption of the Government.
    ' Graft and corruption ' are charges leveled at any government by any opposition. You've even added caps.
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    So, the US should be compassionate suddenly to a nation run by corrupt incompetents, involved in a sectarian civil war for decades, that is often divided into areas controlled by terrorist groups like street gangs defending their turf? Why should the US change policy just because all that ended in a disaster of their own making?

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    So, the US should be compassionate suddenly to a nation run by corrupt incompetents, involved in a sectarian civil war for decades, that is often divided into areas controlled by terrorist groups like street gangs defending their turf? Why should the US change policy just because all that ended in a disaster of their own making?
    Lebanon isn't looking for the USA's ' compassion '. It's looking for the USA to fuck off. You should go for arrogance counselling
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Lebanon isn't looking for the USA's ' compassion '. It's looking for the USA to fuck off. You should go for arrogance counselling
    Want to bet if the US / Trump offered Lebanon say $100 million in aid for this "crisis" they'd take the money in a nanosecond?

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    ' Graft and corruption ' are charges leveled at any government by any opposition. You've even added caps.
    I heard it from some Lebanese Group that is pissed off at the Government. (wiping out half of Beirut, could have happened to anybody)

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Want to bet if the US / Trump offered Lebanon say $100 million in aid for this "crisis" they'd take the money in a nanosecond?
    Best give it through the UN- so that there are no scurrilous Izraeli strings attached.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    The sensible thing to do. The protesters have their victory and the country can refocus with fresh figureheads. Hezbollah will ensure that their is no neoZionist puppetry.
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    why are we sanctioning a country on it's knees? WTF is wrong with the USA (and I include Trump )
    that we think we can just sanction the damn world?

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    Israel lobby group deletes call to blackmail Lebanon using aid



    Israel knows that while it can inflict untold suffering, it would pay a very heavy price for such an attack – precisely because of Hizballah’s deterrent capability.

    So Israel, through its lobby, has been trying to achieve politically what it cannot do on the battlefield: defeat Hizballah.

    Given the large number of attacks Israel has launched against Lebanon since the 1950s – including repeated attacks on Beirut airport and the many car bombs for which it was responsible since the 1970s – it is not surprising that many in the region and in Lebanon suspect Israel had a hand in last week’s catastrophe.

    But even if Israel did not have any role in detonating the huge stock of ammonium nitrate warehoused at Beirut port, the explosion presents an opportunity that Israel and its allies are eager not to waste.

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