{"id":511,"date":"2019-10-17T22:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=511"},"modified":"2019-10-17T22:08:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:08:59","slug":"lebanese-people-are-truly-fed-up-they-are-asking-for-their-governments-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/10\/17\/lebanese-people-are-truly-fed-up-they-are-asking-for-their-governments-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese people are TRULY fed up: They are asking for their government\u2019s resignation!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lebanon-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lebanon-3.jpg 622w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lebanon-3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>From L&#8217;Orient Le Jour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All Lebanon from the North to the South, from the East\nto the West, is on the streets right now (it is nighttime, at the moment of this\npost).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are united against their corrupt government, regardless\nof their community, their religion, socio-economic class, sex\/gender, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They all have ONE single demand: The resignation of the government. They want a reduced caretaker government. These seem to be their demands. They do not want to stop until they achieve this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools and banks will be closed tomorrow (no, it is\nnot because of Greta\u2019s Fridays!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole country is in a sort of a revolution, united\nagainst poverty\/the corrupt system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are fed up. Too much poverty. Too much\ncorruption. Too much taxation (the icing on the cake was today\u2019s approved tax\non WhatsApp calls! People use WhatsApp a lot there; just like Bambi does to chat\nwith her family). &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a video from downtown Beirut in front of the Parliament with people chanting together the Lebanese anthem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beirut1_Trim.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is another video somewhere in Beirut:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beirut2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> Of course, we are in the Middle East (even if Beirut is called the Paris of the Middle East). Burning tires is sadly always on the menu, even after the 103 fires: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lebanon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lebanon2.jpg 618w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lebanon2-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>From L&#8217;Orient Le Jour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi\u2019s heart goes to Lebanon\u2026 May justice and\nprosperity prevail. A beautiful country with its beautiful people deserves beautiful\npoliticians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They say we usually have the government that we are willing to tolerate. Lebanese people elected or re-elected many of these same politicians (some in power for decades). They lost their patience. Will a change take place? And what will happen after such a change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Lebanon from the North to the South, from the East to the West, is on the streets right now (it is nighttime, at the moment of this post). People are united against their corrupt [&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\/511"}],"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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}