{"id":31317,"date":"2025-02-17T21:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=31317"},"modified":"2025-02-17T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T01:15:06","slug":"lebanons-new-government-is-the-reviewed-ministerial-statement-a-piece-of-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/lebanons-new-government-is-the-reviewed-ministerial-statement-a-piece-of-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s new government: is the reviewed Ministerial statement a piece of good news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hope.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23782\" style=\"width:488px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hope.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hope-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hope-768x369.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>For the first time in 25 years, the new Lebanese government, under the leadership of Mr. Nawaf Salam, has approved the state&#8217;s monopoly of arms. Indeed, it dared to eliminate the pro-Hezbollah statement, \u201c<em>Army, people, resistanc<\/em>e\u201d  (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4w5838ww\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4w5838ww<\/a>). Is this the beginning of an era of sovereignty, and hopefully eventually peace, in Lebanon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude this post, Bambi will share a Lebanese song by Mr. Nassif Zeytoun, entitled &#8220;<em>Bi Salam<\/em>&#8221; [<em>In  Peace<\/em>]. It is a call to let people live in peace, without wars, destruction, and injustice. The Arabic lyrics are sub-titled in English, starting at 0.48 minutes. <\/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=\"Nassif Zeytoun - Bisalam [Official Video] (2025) \/ \u0646\u0627\u0635\u064a\u0641 \u0632\u064a\u062a\u0648\u0646 - \u0628\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UtKN2kidG2U?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\n<p> <\/p>\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\/2025\/01\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31132\" style=\"width:222px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/heart.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/heart-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 25 years, the new Lebanese government, under the leadership of Mr. Nawaf Salam, has approved the state&#8217;s monopoly of arms. Indeed, it dared to eliminate the pro-Hezbollah statement, \u201cArmy, people, [&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\/31317"}],"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=31317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31318,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31317\/revisions\/31318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}