Posted on 12/10/2021 11:51:02 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Ziad Hilweh knew his family might die on the way. But the risk was worth it, he said, to reach the shores of Europe for a new start with his wife and three kids, away from the daily humiliation of life in Lebanon.
The country’s economic meltdown had destroyed him. The currency crash meant that the value of his salary from working at a private security company fell from $650 a month to about $50 after the Lebanese pound lost more than 90% of its value in less than two years. It reached the point the 22-year-old could no longer afford milk and diapers for his children.
But the young father’s hopes of a better future were shattered last month, when the boat they were on board headed to Italy broke down in the Mediterranean Sea, hours after they set off from the outskirts of Lebanon’s port city of Tripoli. Along with dozens of other would-be migrants on the boat, they were towed back to shore by the navy after a terrifying attempt at escaping.
For years, Lebanon has been a host for refugees, mainly from Syria, but now it is a departure point. Hundreds of Lebanese have tried to reach Europe this year on boats from their country’s shores, spurred by a devastating economic crisis that has thrown two thirds of the population into poverty since October 2019.
It is not a route on the scale of the main sea path from Turkey to Greece used by many refugees and migrants. But it is a startling shift as Lebanese join Iraqis, Afghans, Sudanese and other Middle Eastern nationalities in leaving their homelands.
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Am I the only one that sees an alligator head that that guy is jumping off of?
It must be the Earth in their home country, not the people...
Same for Africa.
I find it odd, if all whites are racist, why do non whites risk their families to come to our countries?
We can’t save everyone, they need to fix their shitholes.
It’s horrible. Thing is, going to Europe isn’t going to be much better for them.
Given the internet, even the semi literate crave to live in the West. Why would a young person want to remain in one of those backward societies unless they were wealthy and privlidged. Reminds one of the old song “How are you going to keep them on the farm once they have seen Paree?”
No, that’s an alligator or maybe a crocodile. But I don’t think it’s a guy diving.
They will destroy Europe. They are the problem.
Europe is Europe because of Europeans.
We went to the Moon, they stone women for being raped.
Immigration is just going to make everywhere equally terrible, that’s it.
I see it too.
Then I hear “In the galaxy
the mighty galaxy
the Gator sleeps tonight.”
It’s an invasion.
A barbarian invasion.
And it is destroying civilization wherever it trods.
S hole people live in s holes because they like living in s holes.
I guess the obvious about their culture isn’t going so well in the middle east, but they keep on with it.
It is all about cities. Cities when they “work” are places of wealth and opportunities. They however concentrate large numbers of people into a smaller space, with fewer options and far more competition for limited resources, if something goes wrong, and at some point in time, things will go wrong!
It is far easier to have a nice apartment in the city, with easy access to work, food, utilities et al, than it is to have some land and the resulting headaches of dealing with transportation, utilities, and some isolation. So people concentrate in cities.
Expresses beautifully how a conscious American feels since the steal one year ago.
Yup. The West and The United States are being turned into unassimilated boardinghouses for The Third World.
I guess I can look forward to having a pet hyena and raping girls who show their hair.
All cultures are equal...
We invite our doom.
In better days Lebannon was 80% Christian.
I met one at UF, I asked if he was going back, he laughed.
I think that was the Egyptian god Sobek.
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