{"id":11702,"date":"2021-07-15T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2021-07-15T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:50:42","slug":"el-jazeera-on-beirut-pm-designate-saad-hariri-resigns-as-crisis-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/07\/15\/el-jazeera-on-beirut-pm-designate-saad-hariri-resigns-as-crisis-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"El Jazeera on Beirut: &#8220;PM-designate Saad Hariri resigns as crisis escalates&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1024x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11703\" width=\"377\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1024x288.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-768x216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LebanonWorrisome-1200x337.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 85vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While speaking with her parents to check on them, Bambi learned about this new development (breaking news of the day in Beirut): PM-designate S. Hariri just resigned. It seems that following this announcement, the Lebanese pound traded at 21,000 to the US dollar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <em>El-Jazeera<\/em>, we learn that Mr. Saad tried to form a new government since October 2020 without any success (the Lebanese government resigned following the Beirut surrealistic explosion that occurred on August 4, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are those Lebanese politicians fighting over, asked the journalist in this news documentary? Nothing is left in Lebanon worth fighting for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> What does this new development mean for Lebanon&#8217;s immediate future? Bambi has no clue&#8230; but it seems worrisome for its financial DEEP crisis (i.e., hyperinflation!), at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes in life you hit the bottom hard (yes, it hurts&#8230;). Perhaps the sound\/pain of the hit will wake the politicians up to realize that a change is BADLY needed for the sake of the Lebanese people who are fed up of hyperinflation&#8230; as well as further political instability and violence\/threats of violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> To use the words of Mr. Hariri himself: &#8220;<em>May God help Lebanon<\/em>&#8220;&#8230;.! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Lebanon: PM-designate Saad Hariri resigns as crisis escalates\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yZ8ZZa123nI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While speaking with her parents to check on them, Bambi learned about this new development (breaking news of the day in Beirut): PM-designate S. Hariri just resigned. It seems that following this announcement, the Lebanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11709,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}