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  -هذه انتفاضةٌ على كلِّ شيءٍ لأنَّ المواطنين يَنقُصهم كلُّ شيء. وهذه نقمةٌ على جميعِ المسؤولين لأن هؤلاءِ أَهملوا حقوقَ الناسِ مدى ثلاثينَ سنة. ليلةَ 14 تموز 1789، هَروَل الدوق "دو لاروشفوكو" يُبلغ الملِكَ لويس السادس عشر بسقوطِ الـــ"باستيل" فقال له الملِك: "ما هي إلا انتفاضة"، فأجابه الدوق: "بل هي الثورة". دَهاءُ الثوراتِ أن تُرهِبَ السلطةَ من دونِ أن تُخيفَ الشعب. لذا، كلّما انحرفت الثورةُ في لبنان نحو العنف، بَطُلت أن تكونَ كذلك وأَصبحت "أحداثًا" يُـحَلَّلُ ردعُها. بالمناسبةِ، كان يُستحسنُ بمجلسِ الأمنِ المركزيِّ (20/01) استعمالُ كلمةً أخرى غيرَ "الردع"، فاستذكارُ "قوّاتِ الردع" ممزوجٌ بالحربِ والدمعِ...

مرتكزاتُ لبنان سَقطت، وما بقي منها غيرُ كافٍ ليبقى لبنانُ كما هو شكلًا وضمونًا: لبنانُ الكبير ضَربَته الديمغرافيا. الاستقلالُ ضَربه الانحيازُ. السيادةُ ضربَها تداولُ الاحتلالات. الوِحدةُ الوطنيّةُ ضَربَتها القوميّاتُ المتضارِبة. الدستورُ ضَربَه التخطّي والتعليق. الهويّةُ ضَربها انتحالُ الصِفة. الصيغةُ ضَربها تَعدّدُ الولاءات. المساواةُ ضَربها السلاح. التعدديّةُ الحضاريّةُ ضَربها اتّساعُ الفوارقِ في أنماطِ الحياة. اتفاقُ الطائفِ ضَربه التباسُ موادِّه وسوءُ التطبيق. الديمقراطيّةُ ضَربتها التوافقيّة المعطِّلة. النظامُ الليبراليُّ الاقتصاديُّ والماليُّ ضَربه اختلالٌ في قطاعاتِه وجشعُ أركانِه وغيابُ الطبقةِ الوسطى، ولبنان الرسالةِ ضَربه الخلافُ على دورِه ورسالتِه.

Davos, Switzerland, (APP  – 23rd Jan, 2020 ) :Key Lebanon party leader and former foreign minister Gebran Bassil on Thursday faced accusations …

by theguardian.com - Stephanie Kirchgaessner -- The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the Guardian. The encrypted message from the number used by Mohammed bin Salman is believed to have included a malicious file that infiltrated the phone of the world’s richest man, according to the results of a digital forensic analysis. This analysis found it “highly probable” that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by an infected video file sent from the account of the Saudi heir to Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post. The two men had been having a seemingly friendly WhatsApp exchange when, on 1 May of that year, the unsolicited file was sent, according to sources who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity. Large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezos’s phone within hours, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Guardian has no knowledge of what was taken from the phone or how it was used.

The extraordinary revelation that the future king of Saudi Arabia may have had a personal involvement in the targeting of the American founder of Amazon will send shockwaves from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. It could also undermine efforts by “MBS” – as the crown prince is known – to lure more western investors to Saudi Arabia, where he has vowed to economically transform the kingdom even as he has overseen a crackdown on his critics and rivals. The disclosure is likely to raise difficult questions for the kingdom about the circumstances around how US tabloid the National Enquirer came to publish intimate details about Bezos’s private life – including text messages – nine months later. It may also lead to renewed scrutiny about what the crown prince and his inner circle were doing in the months prior to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist who was killed in October 2018 – five months after the alleged “hack” of the newspaper’s owner.

by aljazeera.com Farah Najjar-- Beirut, Lebanon - Violent demonstrations were witnessed on the streets of central Beirut as protesters gathered in the heart of the capital near the main entrance to parliament, which has been heavily fortified with barbed wire, steel gates and metal plates. Protesters lobbed stones, firecrackers and street signs at riot police, who fired water cannons, tear gas and rubber-coated bullets in a bid to clear the area. Security forces stood behind the fortified wall as reinforcements were sent to block demonstrators from passing through via parallel roads in the area.

Lebanon announced the formation of a new government on Tuesday following three months of political blockade. However, the protesters say the new government comprises the same people they have been rallying against since October 17. "We want the government to work according to our needs. If not, to hell with them," said Mohammed, a 23-year-old protester who is from Tripoli, in the country's north, and who was present in the Beirut demonstrations. "If anything, the old cabinet that we rallied against is slightly better than this 'one colour' government," he said, using a term to describe the new cabinet backed by Hezbollah and its allies.

Protesters have been calling for sweeping reforms and a government that is led by independent technocrats and that can deal with the crippling economic crisis and widespread corruption. Protesters reject members belonging to the current political elite, which has ruled Lebanon since the end of its civil war in 1990 and is considered responsible for the country's economic crisis. "They're still stealing from us. We don't have electricity, we don't have hospitals, and we are starving to death," Mohammed added. "We're forced to escalate, the revolution is no longer peaceful … we gave them a chance for 30 years."

'They're playing with us'

 Lebanon has been without an effective government since caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri, under pressure from protests against state corruption and mismanagement, resigned in October. The country's newly appointed Prime Minister Hassan Diab pledged on Tuesday that his government "will strive to meet their [the protesters'] demands for an independent judiciary, for the recovery of embezzled funds, [and] for the fight against illegal gains". He also said his cabinet will adopt financial and economic methods different from those of previous governments, amid the country's worst economic crisis in decades. But protesters insist that only a government of independent experts will have what it takes to save the country. Calls to dismantle ruling parties, which include groups that transitioned into politics since the country's civil war, have also been a major demand of the protesters. "It's bullsh*t … they're playing with us. They are the same people with different faces," Stephanie, a 30-year-old protester, said of the new government. "People are here because they have no jobs and they're trying to tell the government that a change if needed. "But nothing is happening ... they're still robbing us, torturing us, [and] treating us like we don't deserve anything good," she said.