{"id":4469,"date":"2020-05-23T12:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2020-05-23T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:15:16","slug":"what-about-a-loyalty-to-lebanon-first-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/05\/23\/what-about-a-loyalty-to-lebanon-first-for-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"What about a loyalty to Lebanon first, for a change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LoyaltyLebanon-1024x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4470\" width=\"492\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LoyaltyLebanon-1024x312.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LoyaltyLebanon-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LoyaltyLebanon-768x234.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LoyaltyLebanon.jpg 1142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 85vw, 492px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Naharnet<\/em> (see the screenshot at the end of\nthis post), Nasrallah said today <em>\u201cThe WHO has admitted that the health\nsystem in Iran is among the strongest<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good for Iran if it is managing its health crisis well despite its\nsanctions and regional wars by proxy. Bambi is relieved to hear this because\nshe cares for the Iranian people (NOT their government), including her friends still\nstuck there because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, can Mr. Nasrallah explain to the people of Lebanon why he\nseems to care more about the Iranian healthcare system than about the Lebanese\none? And what about the economic tragedy in his own country to which his loyalty\nshould have been in the first place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps he is saying all this because deep inside of himself he\nknows that if Iran takes a hit, his military future would be jeopardized? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, this in addition to his ideological loyalty\n(religious\/ethical, etc.), that sadly seems to be bigger than his concern for\nhis economically agonizing fellow citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a documentary by <em>Euronews<\/em>, for you Mr. Nasrallah, in\nwhich the <em>World Bank<\/em> is cited by the journalist as estimating that \u201c<strong><em>more\nthan 45% of citizens are now living in poverty, according to the World Bank,\nand it is estimated this could rise to 75% by the end of the pandemic<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above SAD reality is largely because you and your fellow politicians turned Lebanon into a kleptocracy. The latter is a government where corrupt leaders mainly seek personal gain\/status at the expense of their governed people. \u00a0\u00a0<\/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=\"Solidarity in Lebanon: Local initiatives respond to rising poverty levels\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_S0sB42mMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NasrallahMay23-435x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4471\" width=\"494\" height=\"1161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NasrallahMay23-128x300.jpg 128w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NasrallahMay23-768x1806.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/NasrallahMay23.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 85vw, 494px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Naharnet (see the screenshot at the end of this post), Nasrallah said today \u201cThe WHO has admitted that the health system in Iran is among the strongest\u201d. Good for Iran if it is [&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\/4469"}],"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=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}