By: Kayhan Int’l
While the world is grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic which has badly struck the US and its economy, affecting over a million Americans so far and claiming some sixty thousand lives, the incompetent administration of Donald Trump is trying to destabilize faraway Lebanon.
Washington wants to kill two birds with one stone – the Lebanese state and the Lebanese people.
As people throughout the world are observing social distancing in order to be safe from Coronavirus, the US and its agents are inciting certain sections of the Lebanese society to throw caution to the winds and join together in acts of violence and vandalism.
Those who have taken to the streets in hundreds in some cities of Lebanon, especially Tripoli, by destroying public and private properties as part of ill-defined protests, are likely to end up in hospitals in scores – not through the defensive measures of the security forces, but by the spread of this uncontrollable pandemic in their ranks.
According to reports, yesterday over a dozen banks across Lebanon were burnt and vandalised during the second consecutive night of protests, allegedly because of frustration over the national currency’s unfettered depreciation.
Although the Central Bank Governor, Riyadh Salameh, has been criticized by prominent Lebanese politicians, including Prime Minister Hassan Diab, for his role in the unexplained fall of the Lebanese Pound, he seems to be merely acting according to the script prepared in Washington.
It is rather strange that in a country where presidents and prime ministers rise and fall with frequency, Salameh, a Maronite Christian, has been governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon for the past twenty-seven years since 1993!
At the moment, one cannot say with certainty whether the depreciation of Lebanon’s national currency is deliberate or accidental, but the burning and looting of the banks in several cities, cannot be considered spontaneous and aimless acts.
A country’s economy cannot be improved by torching monetary institutions and destroying public and private properties. Such irresponsible acts will further damage the security and stability of Lebanon.
We have seen such forms of urban terrorism in neighbouring countries, especially in Iraq and Iran, where it was soon discovered that the criminals inciting naïve persons to protests, and themselves looting banks and national assets, were on the payroll of the CIA.
This means, the gangs going around the streets of Lebanese cities, whether Muslim or Christian, and indulging in violence and vandalism, seem to be professional thugs, trying to fan fuels of sedition in a vain bid to topple the national government and keep the country in perpetual turmoil.
Fortunately, the vast majority of Lebanese people do not support these perpetrators of organized riots, and this augurs well for the country’s future and stability.
The sooner the naïve and unsuspecting young people deceived to join the dangerous street protests, detach themselves, they will be doing a great service to not just their faith, but to their country and to their physical health that has been badly exposed to Coronavirus.
Washington wants to kill two birds with one stone – the Lebanese state and the Lebanese people.
As people throughout the world are observing social distancing in order to be safe from Coronavirus, the US and its agents are inciting certain sections of the Lebanese society to throw caution to the winds and join together in acts of violence and vandalism.
Those who have taken to the streets in hundreds in some cities of Lebanon, especially Tripoli, by destroying public and private properties as part of ill-defined protests, are likely to end up in hospitals in scores – not through the defensive measures of the security forces, but by the spread of this uncontrollable pandemic in their ranks.
According to reports, yesterday over a dozen banks across Lebanon were burnt and vandalised during the second consecutive night of protests, allegedly because of frustration over the national currency’s unfettered depreciation.
Although the Central Bank Governor, Riyadh Salameh, has been criticized by prominent Lebanese politicians, including Prime Minister Hassan Diab, for his role in the unexplained fall of the Lebanese Pound, he seems to be merely acting according to the script prepared in Washington.
It is rather strange that in a country where presidents and prime ministers rise and fall with frequency, Salameh, a Maronite Christian, has been governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon for the past twenty-seven years since 1993!
At the moment, one cannot say with certainty whether the depreciation of Lebanon’s national currency is deliberate or accidental, but the burning and looting of the banks in several cities, cannot be considered spontaneous and aimless acts.
A country’s economy cannot be improved by torching monetary institutions and destroying public and private properties. Such irresponsible acts will further damage the security and stability of Lebanon.
We have seen such forms of urban terrorism in neighbouring countries, especially in Iraq and Iran, where it was soon discovered that the criminals inciting naïve persons to protests, and themselves looting banks and national assets, were on the payroll of the CIA.
This means, the gangs going around the streets of Lebanese cities, whether Muslim or Christian, and indulging in violence and vandalism, seem to be professional thugs, trying to fan fuels of sedition in a vain bid to topple the national government and keep the country in perpetual turmoil.
Fortunately, the vast majority of Lebanese people do not support these perpetrators of organized riots, and this augurs well for the country’s future and stability.
The sooner the naïve and unsuspecting young people deceived to join the dangerous street protests, detach themselves, they will be doing a great service to not just their faith, but to their country and to their physical health that has been badly exposed to Coronavirus.
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