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'France will never let Lebanon go': Emmanuel Macron is accused of trying to reconquer Lebanon rather than help it in the wake of the devastating explosion at its capital which has killed 150 as country is set to refuse aid from Israel
UK Daily Mail ^
| August 8, 2020
| Isabella Nikolic
Posted on 08/08/2020 4:14:57 AM PDT by C19fan
French president Emmanuel Macron has been accused of trying to reconquer Lebanon rather than help it in the wake of the devastating explosion at its capital which killed 150 people.
It comes as the country is expected to refuse humanitarian aid from Israel because the two neighbours are technically still at war.
Visiting explosion-ravaged Beirut this week, France's leader comforted distraught crowds, promised to rebuild the city and claimed that the blast pierced France's own heart.
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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beirut; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; hamas; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; israel; jerusalem; jordan; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; macron; russia; syria; waronterror
If I lived in Lebanon I would welcome back the French.
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posted on
08/08/2020 4:14:57 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
1950: Beirut is the ‘Paris of the Middle East’
2020: Paris is the ‘Beirut of Europe’
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posted on
08/08/2020 4:25:21 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
Lebanon and France have a relationship that goes back to at least the crusades.
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posted on
08/08/2020 4:37:26 AM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: dfwgator
“Paris is the Beirut of Europe”. .....
Nicely said, and it’s early but still calling this as post of the day.
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posted on
08/08/2020 4:40:33 AM PDT
by
inchworm
(al)
To: C19fan
Where people in New York City dancing in the streets and passing out candies to celebrate when the warehouse exploded in Beirut? (Asking for a friend.)
If the same thing had happened in Tel Aviv, people in Beirut would have been dancing in the street and passing out candy.
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posted on
08/08/2020 6:18:29 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
To: C19fan
I LIVED IN LEBANON FOR A WHILE AND IT WAS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE UNTIL THE LIBERALS GOT IN CONTROL.....I LEFT.....
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posted on
08/08/2020 6:38:16 AM PDT
by
chopperk
To: C19fan
We always think Israel as to the explosion, but even Lebanon cleared them (which actually a rare, good, development there). But thinking a bit more, the idea of sending thousands of tons of explosives to the middle of a large city, all at once, was smart on the part of the terrorists, PRECISELY because Israel would not take them out, due to the collateral damage that we see here.
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posted on
08/08/2020 6:48:59 AM PDT
by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here)
To: C19fan
I saw a youtube video an hour ago of a huge demonstration in Beirut of people begging Macron to come back an take Lebanon back under its wing.
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posted on
08/08/2020 7:11:06 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Vinnie
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posted on
08/08/2020 8:32:21 AM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
To: dfwgator
ROTFLOL!
Absolutely right on!
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posted on
08/08/2020 8:33:14 AM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
08/08/2020 8:49:01 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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posted on
08/09/2020 6:29:00 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
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posted on
08/11/2020 7:49:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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