Jumblat Says Power Ships to Blame for Deficit, Not Refugees
Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat stressed Monday that the Turkish power ships are “the main reason behind the budget deficit” and not the presence of Syrian refugees.
“Enough with the underestimation of people's intelligence by saying that the Lebanese economy could collapse due to the presence of the homeless Syrians,” Jumblat tweeted.
“Stop that cheap racist campaign. As if the collapse is needed in order to weaken Lebanon, impoverish it and keep it vulnerable without any immunity after Daraa was handed over to the (Syrian) regime,” he added.
“Put an end to the Turkish (power) ships, which are the main reason behind the budget deficit,” Jumblat went on to say.
09 July 2018, 21:36
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Years ago you could have made peace with Israel and then amongst other things joined her National Electricity Grid and could have saved Lebanon millions.
10 July 2018, 19:05
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Phillips, true but the 200k Palestinians that Zionist Israel expelled into Lebanon that caused the civil war and destroyed our nation are still stuck and exiled in Lebanon! Without these Palestinian refugees and the PLO exiled from Jordan, Lebanon would not need Israel’s power grid! We would not have idiot Lebanese blaming the Lebanese government for the strain on national resources and threatening national security... just like how now we have the same idiotic Lebanese politicians blaming the lebanese government for trying to provide electricity instead of acknowledging the strain that 1.5 million refugees have on our infrustructure!
10 July 2018, 20:23
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Ado. How about checking your historical dates.
The Lebanese left their homes in Israel in 1948. When exactly did the Civil War break out? Years and years later so there is no connection.
On the other hand if Lebanon would have absorbed them letting them live a free life working as they wished then they wouldn't have been a strain on the national economy. On top of that remember if they had money it would have been quite feasible that many of them would have emigrated to other countries, perhaps even following you to Australia.
09 July 2018, 23:35
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Do you forget that in the late 1980's a preliminary draft for a peace treaty was signed between Lebanon and Israel, but when the Lebanese delegation returned to Beirut your then Syrian occupiers tore it up in your faces.
10 July 2018, 19:13
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Phillipo, your Israel caused the fire! Only way for real peace is when all the Palestinians exiled into Lebanon can return or leave Lebanon. Leave Shebaa Farms with no more Palestinians in Lebanon and there is undisputable peace with Lebanon. Stop destroying Lebanese infrastructure every 10 years or threatening our Mediterranean gas fields and there is peace with Lebanon! Peace is not difficult
10 July 2018, 17:27
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no peace with a terrorist state which uses its army as snipers to kill children and women in Gaza.
hezbollah leader asked the zionist occupiers to leave peacefully to where they came from, the contrary the Palestinians one day will be majority and will vanish them, no one in Middle East will run to help nor recieve them.
whyaskwhy, the problem is Israel and traitors like you which allow such entity to be within middle east, a middle east which was prosper and efctive beofre the proceso of colonization and later occupation of Palestine..... so, to be prosper again, the arab must get rid of Israel and "fellows" like you and avoide more colonization.
10 July 2018, 18:21
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the period you mention belongs to colonial time too .... before, the arab were great.... try to expand your knowledge...
10 July 2018, 20:28
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Question to ado.australia and patriotic.
From 1948 to 1967 the West Bank was occupied by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Gaza Strip was occupies by the Kingdom (later Republic) of Egypt.
So my question is why did these two countries for those 19 years not allow the refugees to return to their homes in the occupied territories?
