Comments on: People’s Revolt in Lebanon http://www.tadamon.ca/post/393 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:25:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jad Tayyar http://www.tadamon.ca/post/393/comment-page-1#comment-3433 Jad Tayyar Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:04:25 +0000 http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/?p=393#comment-3433 The author fails to show that the sit-in is highly organized by Hizbullah and that millions of dollars are being spent to feed and house the protesters. This is not a spontaneous uprising of the poor as the author is portraying but rather an orchestrated rebellion against the government which, I concede, is backed by the Americans. The economic dimension is definitely there but it is on the only motor for the rebellion. Also, in his harried diagnosis of the Lebanese economy woes, the author credits Hariri and Siniora with the 36 billion dollars of debt. This part of the truth. Hariri was and Siniora is a fiscally right-leaning politician and economist, but all the Lebanese now know that most of the debt is the result of very rife corruption that was primarily fueled by the Syrian regime hegemony on the economic sectors of Lebanon, coupled with an utter inability of the Lebanese government to collect taxes (including electricity bills) from all Lebanese (rich Christians and Sunnis as well as poor Shias). This is a woefully one-sided analysis of the current Lebanese situation. I wish the author was more balanced in his views. Sincerely The author fails to show that the sit-in is highly organized by Hizbullah and that millions of dollars are being spent to feed and house the protesters. This is not a spontaneous uprising of the poor as the author is portraying but rather an orchestrated rebellion against the government which, I concede, is backed by the Americans. The economic dimension is definitely there but it is on the only motor for the rebellion.
Also, in his harried diagnosis of the Lebanese economy woes, the author credits Hariri and Siniora with the 36 billion dollars of debt. This part of the truth. Hariri was and Siniora is a fiscally right-leaning politician and economist, but all the Lebanese now know that most of the debt is the result of very rife corruption that was primarily fueled by the Syrian regime hegemony on the economic sectors of Lebanon, coupled with an utter inability of the Lebanese government to collect taxes (including electricity bills) from all Lebanese (rich Christians and Sunnis as well as poor Shias).
This is a woefully one-sided analysis of the current Lebanese situation. I wish the author was more balanced in his views.

Sincerely

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