شربل يوقع قرارا باستدعاء 2000 عنصر أمن: الدولة ستحافظ على النظام في الضاحية بدءا من الإثنين

in the mean time, you're nagging about a few millions (which i remind you, are meant to protect the entire territory, not just dahiyeh) while the country is expected to suffer 7.5 billion $ in losses due to the uncontrolled flow of refugees
http://www.trust.org/item/20130919163233-gvq8q

+2 for creativity AND adding value to the debate.

3attelna hamm el dahye ya msammat! mnekhirkon badda tenfarak ariban.

Mowaten my God that's absolutely terrible! I never thought the figures would be anywhere close to that. I was thinking Lebanon was just requesting some $120million.

isn't it? and i think that does not even take into consideration the adverse effects of the Syrian war, like reduced trade, loss of touristic revenues due to security degradation etc..

It sure is.

For all those concerned of the refugee problem:

Lebanon will have lost $7b economically, not factoring in Mowaten's variables.

"Before the crisis, 1 million Lebanese, or a quarter of the population, were classified as poor - defined as living on less than $4 a day. Another 170,000 will be pushed into poverty while the existing poor will face deeper difficulty, it said."

170,000 Lebanese will be pushed into living on less than $4 a day, what's the country coming to?

"The report said 90,000 Syrian children were expected to enrol in schools this academic year, rising to around 150,000 next year - more than half the number of public school students in Lebanon. Even that figure excluded around two thirds of refugees who were not expected to enrol in formal schooling."

With all the debt and inability of the government to pay the teachers, it seems quite difficult that many public schools will be operational this year.

"The United Nations says 748,000 refugees have registered or are awaiting registration in Lebanon but the World Bank estimated a total of 914,000, excluding the many tens of thousands of Syrians in Lebanon before the crisis."

"It predicted that number would rise to 1.3 million by January and to 1.6 million, or 37 percent of the country's pre-crisis population, by the end of next year - the biggest wave of refugees flowing into the smallest of Syria's neighbours."

Refugees will make up around 40% of the pre-war POPULATION. That's almost inconceivable.

It's time for the international community to stop hiding behind its finger and start contributing to the amelioration of Lebanon's innocent suffering. This isn't a political issue, it's a humanitarian one. I can't predict good things for Lebanon in the near future at least, it seems.

momo- Here's a thought. How about HA acts a lebenase entity and not fight syria's war? maybe, just maybe it could reduce the risk of the war spilling over. As for the deployment of security- I actually like it. I wish it would be implemented on the entire border and prevent weapons/bombs/terrorists from flowing in both directions.
but we can't have that! that will benefit all of Lebanon instead of your precious militia and mass murderer buddy. right?