NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, CAN SAVE LEBANON, WITHOUT THE PARTICIPATION OF THE LEBANEESE THEMSELVES

Macron styles himself as Lebanon’s savior, ready to reshape country’s system in Western image — RT World News

• PRESIDENT MACRON, NI VOUS-MEME, NI TOUTE LA FRANCE, NI LE MONDE ENTIER, NE PEUVENT SAUVER LE LIBAN, A MOINS QUE CELUI-CI NE LE VEUILLE LUI-MEME.
• JUSQU’A CE JOUR, LE LIBAN, C’EST-A-DIRE LES SIX MILLIONS DE LIBANAIS, N’ONT PAS ENCORE PRIS LA BONNE DECISION.
• QUE FAUDRAIT-IL FAIRE POUR QU’ILS LA PRENNENT ?
• LA REPONSE A CETTE QUESTION, LIBANAIS, VAUT UN TRILLION DE DOLLARS !
• ET CE SONT, VOUS SEULS, QUI POUVEZ NOUS LA DONNER. PERSONNE D’AUTRE.
• JE SUIS SUR QU’IL Y EN AURAIT BEAUCOUP D’ENTRE VOUS POUR ME DEMANDER : COMMENT ?
• VOILA QUINZE ANS, ET PARTICULIEREMENT LES DIX DERNIERES ANNEES, PLUS QUE LES PRECEDENTES, QUE JE M’EVERTUE A VOUS LE DEMONTRER.
• MR. YASSER ACKAWI, HIER, L’A FAIT, HIER, POUR MOI,PEUT-ETRE SANS LE SAVOIR,ET JE L’EN REMERCIE, QUAND MEME, EN TOUTE SINCERITE.
• MAIS, IL NE L’A PAS FAIT REELLEMENT POUR MOI. IL L’A FAIT POUR LE LIBAN. IL L’A SURTOUT FAIT POUR CHACUN DE VOUS.
• OUI MESSIEURS, DAMES, ET SURTOUT LES JEUNES D’ENTRE VOUS, C’EST A VOUS QUE JE M’ADDRESSE. OUI A VOUS.
• OUI, VOUS SEULS ETES CAPABLES DE SAUVER NOTRE PAYS. LES AUTRES, SONT LA POUR VOUS AIDER, ET VOUSZ AVISER, SI NECESSAIRE. MAIS LA DECISION ULTIME EST LA VOTRE, OUI LA VOTRE SEULE.
• MAIS QUE POUVONS-NOUS FAIRE, ME DEMANDERIEZ-VOUS ?
• RIEN QU’EN POSANT LA QUESTION, VOUS AVEZ DEJA ACCOMPLI LA MOITIE DE LA TACHE. CROYEZ-MOI, UNE FOIS CECI FAIT, LE RESTE SERA FACILE.
• JE N’EN DIRAIS PAS PLUS, POUR L’INSTANT. SAUF DE LANCER : METTONS-NOUS AU TRAVAIL !!!!!!!!!!
• UNE FOIS QUE VOUS AUREZ PRIS LA BONNE DECISION, ET QUE VOUS ME L’AURIEZ CONFIRME, JE VOUS DIRAI LE RESTE. ET, CROYEZ-MOI IL Y AURAIT BEAUC OUP A DIRE.
• President Macron, you need to convince the CITIZENS OF LEBANON, ABOVE AND FIRST OF ALL, AND YOU CERTAINLY KNOW IT. WITHOUT THEM, WITHOUT THEIR FULL UNRESERVED PARTICIPATION, YOU CANNOT SUCCEED. IN FACT, NO ONE, INCLUDING THE PLOTTERS THEMSELVES, CAN DO IT.SO What is the solution? Would you ask me?
• I would say the obvious thing to say: CONVINCE THE CITIZENS.
• This what I, and dozens of good willed Lebanese citizens, including Mr. Yasser Ackawi, have been trying to do, for ages ......
• We have not given up, nor shall we ever do .................................
• We just hope that you will not DESPAIR, and not turn to other urgent tasks, leaving US to manage by ourselves, WHICH WE KNOW THAT WE CAN'T.....

#FrenchPresident. Emmanuel Macron has rallied a host of international donors to support Lebanon, and promised that the country’s future “is being decided now.” The French leader, it seems, will be the one making the decisions.

More than 150 people lie dead, with thousands injured following a devastating chemical explosion in the capital of Beirut on Tuesday. As public anger toward the Lebanese government grows, two ministers and at least seven Members of Parliament have resigned — and crowds of enraged protesters have stormed government buildings and demanded the wholesale resignation of Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s government.

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Into that fray stepped French President Emmanuel Macron. Leading a conference of aid donors on Sunday, Macron explained his lofty goals. “Lebanon’s future is being decided now,” he stated, adding that aid money would be distributed “swiftly and efficiently” and would be accompanied by an impartial investigation into the explosion, which officials say took place when a 2,700 ton stash of ammonium nitrate caught fire.

Macron also took it upon himself to call on the government to heed the demands of the Beirut protesters, which at the moment would involve relinquishing its power.

Lebanon’s future, he said, would be decided “by Lebanon itself.” Yet, the French leader seemingly saw fit to insert himself into that decision-making process, even as the dust in Beirut was still settling last week.

Arriving in the blast-stricken city on Thursday, Macron spoke to protesters in the street, who chanted for “revolution.” As the crowd pleaded with the French president for help, Macron made a clear promise: that he would propose a new “political deal”??? to the country’s embattled leaders. Should the deal fall through, he said he would return in September to take “political responsibility” himself.

Macron mobbed in Beirut. Down with the regime, locals chanted, and called for Revolution while declaiming Lebanon's President Aoun. pic.twitter.com/4ntkZToUFj

— Quentin Sommerville (@sommervilletv) August 6, 2020

Macron’s eagerness for change went further than vague statements. As well as demanding a new “political order” in Lebanon, he called for the country’s central bank to be audited, and for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and United Nations to oversee the country’s recovery.

The French president’s interest in nation-building is not without precedent. Lebanon was once a protectorate of France, brought under French mandate following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, before independence was granted after the Second World War. However, Macron’s invocation of the “international community” and the world’s supranational financial institutions indicates that he sees Lebanon’s future not quite as a French vassal, but as a client of the liberal world order, which he has vocally championed before.

Macron’s bid to bring Lebanon into the fold of the West was likely given urgency by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s call earlier this year for the country to “look east” and turn to China, not the IMF, for economic relief. “Chinese companies are ready to inject money into this country,” he said in June. “I say to the Lebanese people, there are alternatives [to the West],” he added.

' NO MR. NASRALLAH, LEBANON (1) MUST FIRST BE SAVED BY THE LEBANESE THEMSELVES, (2) THEM ALONE CAN POINT OUT TO THE PLOTTERS THEMSELVES, UNMASK THEM, DENOUNCE THEM AND CALL FOR INTERNATION AL SUPPORT, TO TELL THEM TO STOP INTERFERING ........... NO ONE ELSE, BUT THE LEBANEESE THEMSELVES, CAN DO IT .............'

Amid a potential geopolitical shift, the US has thrown its weight behind the protesters too. President Donald Trump on Sunday “acknowledged the legitimate calls of peaceful protesters for transparency, reform, and accountability,” per a White House statement.

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Change may come quickly to Lebanon. The world leaders who took part in Sunday’s conference pledged to deliver “major resources” to Lebanon as quickly as possible, adding that this aid would be delivered “directly” to people in need. With the government seemingly cut out of aid distribution, it remains to be seen how long Diab, or President Michel Aoun, will be able to hold on to power.

'ANY WORLD AID WILL BE USELESS UNLESS THE LEBANESE THEMSELVES, SET TO THE TASK OF LIBERATING THEMSELVES FROM THE PLOTTERS WHO HAVE BEEN ACTING IN THE DARK FROM 1993 TO THIS DATE.'

With Macron attempting to take the driver’s seat, some commentators were quick to notice the irony of the French president lending his support to anti-government protests in a country thousands of kilometers away, after his own security services gassed, clubbed and maimed ‘Yellow Vests’ demonstrators at home every weekend for more than a year. 

Shortly after the donors announced their latest aid pledges – amounting to nearly 253 million euros ($298 million), protesters descended on Beirut’s Parliament Square where they hurled rocks at police and attempted to tear down barricades blocking off the government building. Police responded with tear gas canisters, and extinguished fires set by protesters.

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