Saudi crown prince calls Aoun and voices support for Lebanon
President Joseph Aoun received a phone call from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Presidency said, during a visit by the president to the United States.
The call tackled “recent developments on both the Lebanese and regional levels” and the Crown Prince “affirmed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's support for Lebanon, particularly during this critical time, and for the choices made by President Aoun to safeguard Lebanon's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity,” the Presidency said in a statement.
Bin Salman also reiterated Saudi Arabia's “commitment to providing assistance in all areas needed by Lebanon, in accordance with the priorities identified by the Lebanese government.”
He also extended an invitation to Aoun to visit the kingdom to discuss “all matters of mutual interest,” as Aoun thanked the Crown Prince for his “supportive stances towards Lebanon and the measures taken to assist the country and strengthen its economy,” expressing gratitude for the invitation and promising to visit the kingdom.
20 July 2026, 15:01
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a hassan chrisrushlau andersen fairy tale
Letter to the editor:
Gaining civil rights for Shias should be top priority
Feb 5, 2015 in pressherald
Noam Chomsky says that Shias are the majority of Lebanon’s population, such that, if free elections were held
and if Shias threw all their support to Hezbollah, it could form the government entirely on its own. Yet Article
24 of the Lebanese Constitution reserves half of parliamentary seats for Christians, who number, by my own
guess, around a quarter of the population.
Here, in a nutshell, you have the Shia sense of grievance that makes Hezbollah so dynamic a force in politics,
and yet also the solution to two problems.
Hezbollah militancy and Lebanese political instability would both be ameliorated if Hezbollah put its main
effort into gaining civil rights and political representation for Lebanon’s Shias – and the U.S. could be on the
right side of history by aiding that cause.
So go ahead and tell me why not, please.
20 July 2026, 20:33
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If you're representative of Israeli special services, we can see how racism-under-law is in trouble in the region, including KSA: monarchism being racism: the monarchical clan (true human beings) against everybody else (subhumans). Racism just doesn't work: the elite utter nothings and the masses nod smilingly. Aoun hopes to be regarded as a big subhuman by MSB.
