{"id":30840,"date":"2024-11-20T23:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T03:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=30840"},"modified":"2024-11-21T00:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T04:06:17","slug":"november-22-1943-marks-the-lebanese-independence-day-ending-its-french-mandate-when-will-lebanon-become-truly-sovereign-once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/november-22-1943-marks-the-lebanese-independence-day-ending-its-french-mandate-when-will-lebanon-become-truly-sovereign-once-and-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"November 22, 1943 marks the Lebanese Independence Day, ending its French mandate: when will Lebanon become TRULY sovereign once and for all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"757\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LebanonQuestionMark.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30844\" style=\"width:446px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LebanonQuestionMark.jpg 757w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LebanonQuestionMark-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>From self-hostage by financially, morally, and military corrupt warlords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To a hostage of a decaying sectarian system, despite its inspiring aspirations for democracy and fairness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To a harsh battleground for the world&#8217;s powerful states and for destructive ideologies.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When will tiny yet resilient Lebanon finally become a sovereign state?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Abeer Nehme - Habibi - Adagio (O Beirut) \/\/ \u0639\u0628\u064a\u0631 \u0646\u0639\u0645\u0629 - \u062d\u0628\u064a\u0628\u064a\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vpy1u711kes?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29970\" style=\"width:244px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From self-hostage by financially, morally, and military corrupt warlords. To a hostage of a decaying sectarian system, despite its inspiring aspirations for democracy and fairness. To a harsh battleground for the world&#8217;s powerful states and [&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\/30840"}],"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=30840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30846,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840\/revisions\/30846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}