Only Saad Hariri Can Save Lebanon from Hezbollah’s Corruption

Only Saad Hariri Can Save Lebanon from Hezbollah’s Corruption

Falafel Listens on the Macron Berri Phone Call
Michel Aoun Is Turning Lebanon Into Another Venezuela
Hariri Squeezes Terrorist Hezbollah That Killed His Father

Business as usual in Lebanon is unacceptable and any new government must be committed to – and capable of implementing – reforms that bring economic opportunity, good governance and an end to endemic corruption, a top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday. The U.S. is recognizing that only Saad Hariri can save Lebanon from Hezbollah corruption and terror. The much-hated organization of violence is ripe for picking. It has clearly showed, since the devastating port explosion of August 5, that it works for Iranian and not Lebanese interests.

Assistant Secretary of State David Schenker told reporters in a teleconference:

Whatever government comes next must commit to and have the ability to implement reforms that can lead to economic opportunity, better governance and an end to endemic corruption.

Schenker, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, declined to comment specifically about the naming of veteran Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri as prime minister. His naming represents the fourth time in the face of the country’s worst crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war.

Hariri, a Sunni Muslim whose last coalition government Hezbollah toppled a year ago, faces a long list of woes. Among them is a banking crisis, currency crash, rising poverty, state debts, and a COVID-19 surge. Furthermore, Lebanon is still reeling from the August explosion at Beirut’s port that killed nearly 200 people and caused billions of dollars of damage.

In referring to reform, transparency, anti-corruption and accountability, Schenker, a highly-experienced Middle East diplomat, said:

The United States has not commented or weighed in on specific individuals in Lebanon. We have maintained from the very beginning that what is important are the principles. There is a lo to fix and so we are sticking with principles, rather than people, and so we are going to reserve judgment.

HEZBOLLAH KILLED RAFIK HARIRI, SAAD’S FATHER

In August, a United Nations-backed tribunal found the Lebanese group Hezbollah guilty of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The tribunal indicted Salim Ayyash who is a Hezbollah operative. Hezbollah killed also tens of innocent Lebanese standers with the massive explosion that killed Hariri.

At the time, Saad Hariri, in a moment to unite the country, said:

We accept the verdict of the tribunal and want justice to be implemented.

In other words, let sleeping dogs lie. This demeanor shows why the United States trusts Hariri is the only to save Lebanon from Hezbollah’s terror.

What plans of support the United States might implement to help Hariri remains a mystery. But the majority of Lebanese are realizing that Hezbollah is a foreign entity working to help Iran, not Lebanon.

Reuters contributed to this article.

Only Saad Hariri Can Save Lebanon from Hezbollah’s Corruption

COMMENTS

WORDPRESS: 0
DISQUS:
Follow by Email
Facebook
Pinterest
LinkedIn