The Economist On Lebanon
REVOLUTION, war, assassination, terrorist attacks, foreign intrigue, sectarian strife, a government paralysed and polarised between savagely bickering factions: it is hard to think of any devilish twist that Lebanon’s recent saga, like a television drama desperate to improve its ratings, has not taken since the country began to break from the hold of its larger neighbour, Syria, three years ago. Yet the plot is still getting thicker…
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The Economist, and not a word about the economy.
How is Lebanese economy doing?
Would be nice, if you could dedicate a post to the economic situation in Leb.
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Ha, The Economist! Who reads obsolete rags like this anymore?
I’d have a lot of respect for anyone of you guys who was able to go past the senile cliché of the second paragraph. “A Christian from the small, right-wing Phalange Party, Mr Ghanem was the 11th prominent opponent of Syria…”
“small right-wing Phalange” my ass! When will these blinkered third-worldist morons in “mainstream” media FINALLY get things right and start reporting the facts, not injecting their personal biases??? the hilarity of such pathetic reductionisms is simply breathtaking, and would have been comical had it not been so sad.
The “Phalange” are neither small, nor right-wing, nor even “Phalangist” for that matter, if the insinuation is (as it’s ever been) the Francisco Franco fascistic Phalanges.
As the brilliant Theodor Hanf put it years ago, this worn out cliché of right-wing rich Christian Lebanese, and Progressive poor Muslims, “has had a brilliant journalistic career”, but it’s a mendacious, simplistic, and ultimately false depiction of Lebanon’s complex systems of loyalties and textured political and cultural traditions. Those idiots who still insist on using it are lazy bankrupt demagogues and intellectual dwarfs, still stuck in a time that time forgot.