{"id":8167,"date":"2020-12-11T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:36:02","slug":"are-un-tribunals-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/are-un-tribunals-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Are UN tribunals jokes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FinalSnakeTwoHeadsSTL2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8168\" width=\"428\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FinalSnakeTwoHeadsSTL2.jpg 399w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FinalSnakeTwoHeadsSTL2-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 85vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi read today that the UN international court sentenced the killer of Lebanon&#8217;s Hariri to life in prison. As a reminder, this explosion of February 14, 2005 killed not only the PM, but also MANY Beirutis. Lebanon has contributed half of the funding for this Special Tribunal. How is that fair to the Lebanese taxpayers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20201211-international-court-to-sentence-killer-of-lebanon-s-hariri\">https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20201211-international-court-to-sentence-killer-of-lebanon-s-hariri<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there is also the question of whether that scapegoat killer will be handed over by the <em>Hezbollah<\/em>, but this not the focus of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post is about the lucidity of Lebanese citizens\u2026\nand their sarcasm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi read in <em>Naharnet<\/em> readers\u2019\ncomment section the following exchange:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One individual wrote: <em>\u201c<\/em><em>Only\none guy carried out this entire assassination? Why not sentence the head of\nsnake?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman replied: <em>\u201cActually, it was a snake with two\nheads: Assad and Nasrallah\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this short exchange, you have the whole truth&#8230; If\nyou do not believe Bambi, you can re-read this 2010 <em>CBC<\/em> article to refresh\nyour memory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/cbc-investigation-who-killed-lebanon-s-rafik-hariri-1.874820\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/cbc-investigation-who-killed-lebanon-s-rafik-hariri-1.874820<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi read today that the UN international court sentenced the killer of Lebanon&#8217;s Hariri to life in prison. As a reminder, this explosion of February 14, 2005 killed not only the PM, but also MANY [&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\/8167"}],"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=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8170,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions\/8170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}