Thursday, March 19, 2015

Jordan-Israel-Palestine

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Why Jordan Chooses Israel Over Palestine - KJ R > .
24-4-23 Israel's Relationship c Jordan Threatened by Radical Activism | TBN > .
24-2-8 Israel: High-Tech Military; Intelligence Failure - Caspian > .
24-2-1 Why [despite weakist antisemitism] US Supports and Funds Israel | WSJ > .
23-9-5 Israel's Everlasting [Internal & External] War - gtbt > .

Despite dramatic regional changes, Jordan remains of strategic importance to Israel’s security. Hashemite Kingdom is often seen as an artificial energy-poor state, surrounded by hostile and more powerful neighbours. Still, it has been a key element in the American and Israeli security concepts for the region for over half a century.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Lebanon - Continuing Crisis



As Lebanon grapples with a deepening economic crisis, fuel, medicine and food are becoming increasingly scarce. Why and what’s happening? 

The country is now in a state of collapse - fuel shortages, power cuts, bare shelves and a plummeting currency. It is a financial crisis with deep roots in a fundamentally flawed political system. Last year saw the mass resignation of the entire cabinet after the explosion at a port that killed more than two hundred. It was later discovered a storage facility had been holding dangerous chemicals that no one had bothered to move. 

Lebanon - sociopolitical chaos

Lebanon 2020 - Beirut Explosion

Beirut explosion: Angry residents rage at leaders after blast - BBC > .
2021 Economy of Lebanon: How to Fix its Currency Crisis - Macro > .

Background:

People in Beirut have expressed anger at the government over what they say was negligence that led to Tuesday's huge explosion.

President Michel Aoun said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a warehouse.

Many have accused the authorities of corruption, neglect and mismanagement.

The blast killed at least 137 people and injured about 5,000 others, while dozens are still missing. A two-week state of emergency has begun.

Lebanon 2020 - Beirut Explosion ..
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Lebanon's Sectarian Disaster

2021 How Lebanon's Collapse could lead to [another] Civil War - My Take > .

00:00 Intro
00:57 A Nation in Free Fall
09:02 A Sectarian System
16:29 The Drums of War
20:30 A United Voice 

Weak Lebanon grows weaker. Beset by fuel shortages, power outages and a collapsing economy, a wave of violence has hit the country in response to the work of judge Tarek Bitar who is investigating those responsible for the Beirut blast that rocked the capital a year ago. With the violence quickly organising itself along sectarian lines, many fear the return of another civil war. What is it about Lebanon’s sectarian political system that turned it from the Switzerland of the Middle East to a nation on the brink of collapse? How can the Lebanese people rid their nation of a corrupt political class? And is the country on the brink of another sectarian civil war?

sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...