The "Let's Kill Tourism" Demonstration
Pictures Special for Beirut Notes (N)
Views from Byblos, Roman baths in Beirut and inside an 18th Century Greek Orthodox Church and a Mosque in Beirut.
The number of tourists visiting Lebanon has increased 18 percent so far this year as compared to 2004 which was a record year.
And Syria and Iran's allies and the power-crazed-Hafez-Assad-Saddam-Hussein-wannabe ex-general and permanent nut, Michel Aoun are taking their frustrations to the streets.
Lebanon becoming a democratic country with borders, a vibrant economy and an open society, where Islam and Christianity live in harmony is not their plan.
The spiteful hordes of Iran, Syria and Christian Aounistan are determined to ruin the chance that regional circumstances gave us to build a nation and an economy.
Byblos, the roman baths, our ancient churches and mosques, our rich history and the summer season mean nothing to those who care about loftier causes than the prosperity of Lebanon.
They have great causes indeed. The well being of the Assad family, the Iranian nuclear bomb and last but not least transferring the Presidency from a suntanned egocentric general with a lisp to a paranoid self obsessed nut of a general with an eye twitch.
Great plans indeed. Let us all join the Let's Kill Tourism and Prosperity demonstration tomorrow.
posted by zadigvoltaire at 7:14 AM
7 Comments:
kif se2abit l general that u r talking about has at least 70% support from ALLL lebanese.
and by the way even the money that will come to lebanon by the increase of tourisim, it will be STOLEN back by the inhibited government so no money anyway.
We must ask ourselves - Just why do despotic leaders fear democracy and economic prosperity for their people?
I am with you. How pathetic Aoun has become. He is a certifiable insane nut job. However, I think the idiot are those who follow this dumb ass of a leader. It must be the water...Do you wonder what kind of IQ do Hizbullah and Aoun followers have. Worst than sheep. It is aggravating listening to these idiots who a devoid of ambition and self respect
instead of talking about killing tourism, look to the facts , even with all what happened last year, beirut's hotels got a high occupancy rates, it s not about the events but about the current trends that are switching
(check the EUI report about trends in tourism)
now about tomorrow, ask yourself what this government reached as result.
maybe it s better in that optic to pass to something else
talks, no actions and paralysis
it s not a government of action
anyway with last 5 of feb events, this government is dead.
and besides that the news abroad are really different that what we hear in lebanon. i m feeling here the mediatic axe related to current political persons are controling the news for their own interests
one advice:
check out the brasilian stories of rana koleilat
so u actually believe that tourism is going to be affected by a peaceful demonstration. LOL. I really do not see how this demonstration is relevant to tourism and how u linked it to tourism. If people started getting shot then maybe i'd side with you, but nothing happened. Second, the lack of economical context in your post also knocks it down to the floor. In economics there's something called the long-run and the short-run. If these demonstrations work, and let's just say that they do affect tourism, toppling the government would allow the rise of a more competent government that actually cares about the people, and not about it's personal interests, hence most areas outside of beirut are still underdeveloped. Another aspect of economics that u can talk about is that a country's economy cannot only depend on tourism. Saying that these demonstrations will efect tourism is childish if you allow me to say becuase it directly points out how the government actually has not been able to create any strong agricultural sector, or heavy to ligh industrial sector, and which therefore only strengthens the claim that they are incompetent and should not be where they are right now.
Enjoy!
Guys, yesterday New TV said that Ministers in the parlament get 10,500,000 L.L. every month as wages. Deputies get 8,500,000 L.L.
Stop accusing people and forces who never participated in the parlaiment of parralysing tourism.
Please, people are dying and our money is going to the Goverment. I think they should pay us and not vise versa.
Guilds also participated in the late demonstarion and the members of the guilds are not part of Hizbullah or Liberal Patriots Party.
to whom it may concern;
concerning the politic situation in lebanon and with respect to all ur opinions, u know nothing about the rules of the game.
u talk about michel aoun as if he is the promised man who will lead us to freedom, or about sa3ed el din hariri like a hero or any other politician in this country. i wish things are so simple like u believe. but politics are played on massive scale, big countries like the states, france, russia... take controle of us. it is a joke that we can live alone in this country with no interference, u have seen during the last war in july2006 how if they feed us we eat but if not we die starving. the whole world is interrelated geogarphical borders are made by humans but in deed there is no borders for any country. isn't how the earth was before civilization?
do u believe that during this war that the two parts that were fighting were really do so, or this is a fight between two different regimes? if u think so believe me u are idiots. hezbollah is in the same side of isreal even though they are fighting. they might fight for different idologies but at the end they both provide benefits for the same regime that cerated both of them( usa). saddam hussein for example was made by the americans and it was published that he was fighting them.....
the victory that was given to hezbollah is not for free and it is not that hezbollah really defeated the isrealy army but in fact they made him look victorious in order to increase its power as preparation period for the new struggle thaT will and is taking place ( chi3a and sinna fighting agianst each other) which will put isreal on the safe side while the arabes are busy to fight them selves.
what i want to show is not to get stuck in the small ended roads of the politics that are played in lebanon. scatch ur mind, see the world with both eyes, and search for real knockledge for ways to increase ur understanding of things are done because the truth of everything is never found on the cluster rather deep inside
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