Lebanon’s foreign minister has resigned. Nassif Hitti says he could not continue because of the government’s poor performance.
Lebanon is close to bankruptcy.
And critics say politicians, accused of running the economy into the ground, have shown no willingness to fight corruption to receive a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
Patrick Mardini, the president of the Lebanese Institute for Market Studies, discusses this latest development.
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This what happens when you support terrorists.
Iran can revive Lebanon ‘s economy. Beg them. Lebanon has been already sold to Hezbollah.
The hate in this comment section shows that western arrogance has truly peaked.
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Islam only wishes peace, a religion that is 1,500 years old cannot be judged on the basis of a couple of centuries due to extremist groups such as ISIS slandering its name. Shameful what today’s society is built on.
Make peace with Israel first. The last thing you want is another Hezbollah-Israel war which will leave Lebanon ruined
If the Israelis are smart, and I hope they are, they will know that they should leave this two bit country well enough alone and sit back and enjoy the show as it destroys itself. They’re more than half way there, so grab the popcorn and watch the dimwits fall on their own collective sword. All this can happen without Israel spending a single dime on artillery at the expense of their tax payers.
Israel would be happy to annex Lebanon. I think this is a good option. Now the Lebanese can vacation in Tel Aviv.
Or Syria 😄
La Reza Syria can’t even govern itself. They’re in the middle of a civil war.
@zabag “proxy war” to be exact.
Good step. They should all resign.
Lebanon can’t even control there country and the Hezbollah terrorist
Hahaha lebanon is bankrupt and Hezbollah wanted to wage war from lebanon and syria against israel. Shouldn’t the money use to support the people of lebanon first? No, Hezbollah and iran dont care. Hezbollah has bankrupted lebanon.
That’s why many young Lebanese want change, specially on political system basic on sectarian.
@La Reza do they want peace with Israel?
too much brainy fellows to make fool to GCC good people but they don’t know how to run their own country?
acting like European style is not sufficient, be practical life.
avoid the group and gratitude to the …
death penalty for corruption. stop letting catholics have disproportionate power. make israel take the palestinian refugees, pay lebanon reparations, then hezbollah will have no moral high ground. but of course, we all know shias are secret allies of the west (allying with iran against iraq, khomeini taking refuge in paris, israel flying sorties and selling weapons to iran, etc). it’s all a ploy, they just want lebanon to be another feudalistic government that exploits the population like any other asiatic/ oriental (i.e. iran) kleptocracy.
just blame it to Israel as usual…
All of israhels neighbors are imploding
Meanwhile in US:
Coronavirus case highest in the world
Unemployment reach 30%
10% of population might go bankrupt
The president is charged with money laundering
Jesus has his own YT account, and now this 😄
C0w worshipper
The stock market is being propped up with over $9 billion in tax payer funds, the rich got richer via bailouts, over 100 million Americans will be homeless by September, etc etc. corrupt country where it’s socialism for the rich and scraps and distractions for the poor
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Exactly like Carlos Ghosn! 🤣
Whatever the case we do not want Hariri in power. We prefer a war than Hariri
Lebanon needs Turkish intervention to help the Lebanese people
krizden faydanalıp bu ülkeye bir askeri üs açmamız lazım çıkarımıza 😀
All Funding goes to terrorism what we can expect…
Lebanon’s only resource is its educated population that is fluent in three languages (Arabic, English and French). If it was a well managed country it would have potential to be a hub for outsourced industries, web development and tourism. However the vital services that would enable these industries to grow are inadequate in Lebanon. The electricity is not reliable, the internet is very slow and telecoms rates are the highest in the world.
Instead of enacting policies which would benefit the country as a whole, the parasitic politicians/mafia bosses who run the country preferred to take those sectors hostage and use them to enrich themselves. Preventing the country from joining the 21st century economy. And now even as the country collapses they refuse to release their grip on power and allow a new vibrant generation of leaders to take over. Rather than save their country, they think to themselves “I’ll hang on as long as I can, and if things fall apart in Lebanon I’ll escape to France or Switzerland and live off my stolen millions, nbd”.
It’s truly a hopeless situation for the Lebanese people.
Place it under administration just like any other bankrupt institution , ISRAEL can turn it around in less than 2 years…
Wanting bail out like Greece 🇬🇷 bailed out to take more migrants ! Does Lebanon 🇱🇧 take these migrants or is this where the start of migration is ? Bloated system of liberal thoughts ! No to socialism!
Now they will blame Israel for this Crisis.
No sympathy, they have a corrupt government I bet hizbollah are a lot richer
But the people sure didn’t deserve that explodion..
Sad that unlike Pakistan it dont have any master to bail out… :/ IMF bailed out pakistan 13 times in 3 decades….why can’t they bail out Lebanon..?? They deserve it more than anyone. A good country
libanon is the longest suicide letter ever written
Seek help from fellow rich Arabs to rescue the economy of the country
How ? They are crooks themselves
Lol Lebanon is majority Christians I don’t think the rich Arabs like that idea lol
@Lina Morgana I like the idea
@Lina Morgana one of my best friends is Christian
Buy gold people. All countries either print money or borrow. Inflation world wide. Buy gold and thank me in future
Buy goats
Gold has very little functionality
@Simon Snootles then hold your cash. Everyday your cash is worth less.
@Uranus Planet If your cash is worthless, gold will be even more so, gold is just a rock man, same as cash is just a paper, self sufficient is the key.
So, this country is a new Venezuela ?
Very good , maybe now thy will save the money for food not for army !
A folk that hates God got what is deserving
Omggg and now they were hit with this massive explosion?! Was it planned ? A coincidence?!?!?
Wavetech I don’t buy that story about the fireworks factory, it sounds ridiculous. They were attacked
@Wavetech source?
Dylan Faltisco it was also next to a warehouse containing 2750 kilos of some explosive substance. It probably wasn’t an attack, just an accident
I’m thinking coincidence is unlikely… so suspicious
It wasn’t coincidence. The explosion was an attack quite plain and simple. It was an attack by Israeli American provided F35s. When a country’s president can’t protect it’s sovereignty and it’s people, he should step down and that’s what this old man did.
let it fall , then we create a islamic emirate
Get a job..
And now Lebbanon Beirut is In Flames
Easy solution, kick out Hezbollah then a lot of cash flow in……..
I am not understanding why those Lebanese people are not striking 24 hours per day!
Clearly someone got a 30 killstreak on shipment
Oof. That humor is dark af. I like it.
Now they gonna flood Nigeria again and make it another failed state
Useless set of people they only know how to call ISRAEL names.
Explosive Some Would Say (Today)
Hope everyone is fine after the explosion
What about the people that got their socks knocked off…. literally
Wow. I think that has something to do with that explosion
Soooo…he resigns YESTERDAY, and there are two HUGE explosions TODAY.
Got it.
Carry on.
It’s most likely an ammonium detonation. A warehouse full of fertilizer that have caught fire. The same happened in Canada years back. Destroyed a whole city
henrik christensen I don’t think the average al jeezera watcher knows about the Halifax explosion, nor do they even know what Halifax, or Ammunition nitrate is
They need some money from donation lol
Here comes America to the “rescue”
@henrik christensen it was sodium nitrate
And now look what just happened today
Who’s here after the massive explosion
India is garbage
The explosion is just a huge distraction
I thought the huge explosion might have been nuclear. Iran’s been talking about nuking Israel for years – I wonder if the Israelis found out and detonated the bomb early, enroute in Lebanon
Israel deep state is evil
Does it really matter to you?
Well I guess they won’t be recovering
Says “ship will sink” as a Bentley Bantega passes behind her LOL
Cringe kid
Demn wtf!!! Complain about Economy then Bomb 🔥 they had massive Explosion 💥 Next day Godemn it Yoa Arabs is that how you solve Economy crisis
With enumerable problems, I wonder how long Lebanon will last as a nation. Sectarian, the most unwieldy of which is the Hesbollah, Covid 19 pandemic, explosions and this time bankruptcy. What an exhausting job the Prime Minister faces daily.
Israel attack
Wow how is this not being mentioned besides the explosion today?
Join NATO and the E.U and you will get help
this can’t be a coincidence
Stay strong Lebnan we are with you ❤️❤️❤️
lebanon is a failed state theres no saving it
The CCP did this to you with the wuhan virus, and Iran supports the ccp while the uihgar people are put in concentration camps
those who seek help from IMF, seek help from satan.
Good riddance
U think Lebanese have ask help from China, as they diligently support Chinese concentration camps.
And a day later theres a huge explosion? if 2020 has taught me anythings its that nothing is coincidence
There’s no such thing as coincidence.
@monkeyfist29 SAME WITH THE VIRUS EXPLOSION!!😉😉😏😏
@Sam G. Amerika’s virus
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Those who curse Israel are cursed ( it’s written in the Bible) there you go, you see it with your own eyes.
Who’s came to see this after the explosion?
Your mama.
Madara cause the explosion
I watched this after the giant explosion in Beirut.
All I can say is, wtf.
Attacked
Probably an accident
So bomb was a bailout strategy by these criminal govt.
Geez and I thought america was in trouble…
Does anyone think there’s a connection to the bombing?
When people lose confidence in their government, war and conflict, or the perception of it, keeps everyone in line. Hope I’m wrong. That would be terrible.
If people lose faith in their country’s leaders, the leaders resign. If the explosion was truly a bomb from Israel, it means that the Lebanese government can’t even protect its own people.
That’s just capitalism, eventually the country goes bankrupt. It’s a flawed system. Debt is money and money is debt, inflation doesn’t fix anything it only makes it worse. All
Capitalistic countries will eventually go bankrupt. Corruption is a part of the system
500,000 starving children… Let this corrupt system be wiped out across the board and let peace Reign amongst the people of earth. May the divine presence within all be revealed in the hearts of mankind here and now.
anybody with common sense can connect these dots, seems to easy.
What a shameless government! This is so bad. RIP
So the government announced they’ll stop paying back their debt while they figure out what to do… Massive explosion one day after this report.. Wtf…
First thing:::::Lebanon must get rid of Hizbollah and get back to normalcy
What’s so sad here in Canada we have immigrants voting in a corrupt Liberal government. This is going to be. Canada’s future.
How can you help a child there? How does one give aid to those in need?
Duterte must learn on the Lebanon PM! He should do the same! He is the most failure ever happen in the Philippines!
F u
bet this is a false flag in order to pressure the IC to fund the nation, its all hapened quite fast though,
We must stop our liberal vs conservative war. We have to forget our small problems & use our time & money to help Lebanon. I pray we all can donate a few dollars to help them. I pray billionaires will rush to their aid with medical staff & housing. I pray all the wealthy nations surrounding Lebanon & from afar can build make shift clinics & set up beds for all the injured. I pray hotels can be turned into housing units for injured & displaced people.
Someone is doing this, maybe they want to cease lebanon. Another syria in upcoming…
something reeal fishy is going on, considering he resigns and the next day a huge bomb goes off that levels an area almost the size of a huge football field
Anyone see that massive explosion yesterday? Apparently that was their debt bubble bursting, largest ever.
Join state with Israel and you will be great
So they did not pay the debt So thats why there’s a explosion 🧐
World Bank and IMF time to give loan 😢
please dont be the next Venezuela economic crisis
Israel’s handiwork. They are attacking their neighbors. So shameful.
Get rid of corruption by get rid of Hezbollah Immediately. Hezbollah is a threat to peace in Lebanon and financial collapse in Lebanon.
Are we hearing from a H..E..A..D C..H..O..P..P..I..N..G Wahhabi?
he resigned so he can stay away from explosion.
beirut explosion will earn million or billion donation now, corrupt politics is celebrating again.
they don’t care strangers lives.
So basically Lebanon is becoming into Greece.
booom
Isreal Wth is wrong With you Can you stop We already know the Truths.
All this is happening as there is no Islamic values in Lebanon. When You do not follow Quran and the Sunnah this is what will happen to a country. Prostitution at the super night clubs, wine building, Google it and you will find the filth in these countries blame yourself and the government… Time for reform before there will be more damage inflicted naturally from this kind of issues. Many civilization was destroyed before and the evidence are in the Quran. Example The Ad civilisation, the Hud civilization. Dun be the Beirut civilization that got destroyed… Currently China is being destroyed for all that they have done to humanity and gone against what the All Mighty Creator have ordained for humanity. Oppression of people…
Now that man should be made prime minister.
If his passion is really to wipe out corruption and try to put Lebanon back on the map he should be made prime minister and get help and aid off the west. He sounds like I pious leader. The West will back pious leaders.
My understand was he’s a U.S. Isreali puppet????
Best the next has a discussion with Mr Putin……….
now Lebanon is confirmed to be bankrupt………..
Israel will be ready to take over
They have relied to much on Iran and been forced to bk the impious. Gold alone favours the bold. They should do a deal with the west and get their country back on track. The Lebanese have suffered greatly all because of their impious leaders poor descions and not to mention not following international guide lines on the storage of hazardous materials.
Government is corrupt
Another war might about to start, people will die.
What a shame.
Lebanon should be governed by France again
They don’t need a bailout. They need to throw out the central banksters and control their own currency. Beirut needs a gold and silver standard. Without it, they will be destroyed by the central banks. Do they want Central Bank Digital Currencies after that explosion? They have no electricity, so they would have no money if they were cashless.
now isreal is after labanon.
curse be upon the wrongdoers who r causing fisad fil ardh.
*People’s Republic of China has enters the chat*
Now, China will invest in Lebanon, and she will have a puppet state in Europe which will give China a regional power.