{"id":31377,"date":"2025-02-28T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=31377"},"modified":"2025-03-01T08:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T12:17:04","slug":"lebanon-is-it-truly-on-the-path-of-accountability-for-crimes-and-hope-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/lebanon-is-it-truly-on-the-path-of-accountability-for-crimes-and-hope-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: is it truly on the path of accountability for crimes and hope for peace?"},"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:539px;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>Bambi learned about two recent positive developments in her birth country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, Judge Tarak Bitar conducted a fifth series of hearings in the investigation of the Beirut port explosion of August 4, 2020. As per <em>L&#8217;Orient Today<\/em>, he questioned the former head of the Lebanese intelligence service as well as the former head of port intelligence, responsible for the fight against smuggling (<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/0j6Tw\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/0j6Tw<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, <em>Reuters<\/em> reported the following: for &#8220;<em>the first time<\/em>&#8220;, <em>&#8220;Lebanon seized $2.5 million in cash from a man arriving from Turkey on Friday<\/em>&#8220;. It seems that &#8220;<em>the money was destined for militant group Hezbollah<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/oMi1E\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/o<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good progress, Lebanon. Bravo!<\/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=\"Biladi Ana\/\u0628\u0644\u0627\u062f\u064a \u0623\u0646\u0627  (feat Majida EL ROUMY &amp; Youssou NDOUR)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i37oTIHBHTY?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\/2025\/01\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31132\" style=\"width:236px;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>Bambi learned about two recent positive developments in her birth country. First, Judge Tarak Bitar conducted a fifth series of hearings in the investigation of the Beirut port explosion of August 4, 2020. As per [&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\/31377"}],"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=31377"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31384,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31377\/revisions\/31384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}