By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
… attempts to impose federalism in Syria began with imposing de facto militia control over part of the Syrian geography supported by the Turkish and American occupation, and seeking to weaken the state’s capabilities and institutions, and its control over geography, so what is witnessing the northern Lebanese regions is a path similar to what began in Syria years ago under the title of protests Which ended with the domination of some foreign-backed militia on some geography, and today it overlooks the federal project,
According to questions posed by security sources, after information was received about Turkish intelligence involvement in standing behind groups that have consistently formed the title of confrontations with security forces in the Beirut squares, and today stand behind clashes with the army in the north, while other security sources talked about information and indications of the involvement of groups supported by Businessman Bahaa Al-Hariri of the riots and sabotage witnessed in the capital Beirut and the northern capital Tripoli, after elements from different regions were recruited in exchange for financial allowances to carry out the riots, in a way that dropped their repetition in Tripoli after Beirut, the absence of any credibility to accuse those close to the Amal movement and Hezbollah to carry out them.
Pending what investigations will say about what happened in Beirut and Tripoli, after the army and security forces tightened control in the two cities, the speech of Prime Minister Dr. Hassan Diab about the overthrow of the coup project was the focus of internal and external attention, and questions about information that he said would come at the time of its disclosure, about those involved who targeted To overthrow the state and the goals of change that the October 17 uprising symbolized, not just the government, linking this to the government’s confrontation against corruption and the path it has taken in removing the rubble left by those who have ruled the country for decades, using the term grabbing the keys to the structure of corruption, and the coup plotters’ efforts to recover it,
A new disease whose symptoms are similar to “corona” and caused by an insect!
American medical authorities have warned of the emergence of a new disease whose symptoms are similar to infection with “Corona” virus, but who is behind this disease is a tick insect that is spreading in the American state of New York.
According to the American “Fox News” network, the new disease, which is called “cracks disease,” is caused by bacteria that are caused primarily by tick bite bites, and can lead to fever, headache, chills and muscle pain.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, bites caused by a tick insect cause symptoms similar to those seen in patients with the Corona virus and can be fatal, indicating an increase in the number of patients who have been bitten by a tick insect in New York State recently.
“This is really increasing, especially in the northeastern part of New York,” the network quoted Byron Buckinson, deputy director of the Office of Infectious Diseases, of the US Department of Health, as saying.
“There are areas in New York State where more ticks have had more infections than other common bacterial diseases,” he added, warning of the seriousness of the new disease in light of the spread of the “Corona virus.”
General Security arrested 3 terrorists belonging to the terrorist organization ISIS
The General Directorate of General Security announced, in a statement today, that “in the context of following the movements of sleeper terrorist cells and pursuing their elements, and based on the indication of the competent public prosecutor, the General Directorate of Public Security arrested both Lebanese: (A.Z) born in 1997, 1996 and (EK) born in 2000, for their affiliation with the ISIS terrorist organization.
On interrogation, they admitted the following:
They pledged allegiance to ISIS and advocated it on social media and incited other people to pledge allegiance to the organization.
They sought to travel to Syria and Egypt to join the ranks of ISIS.
They conducted military and archery drills with weapons of war in preparation for terrorist acts.
– They planned to kill soldiers from the security services.
After completing the investigation with them, they were referred to the competent court, and work is underway to arrest the remaining persons involved.
China projects for Lebanon: more than 12 billion dollars
The Chinese carry on to Lebanon nine development projects and suggestions for solutions to chronic crises, which in turn produced economic, demographic and political crises. From railways to electricity and money, Lebanon is at a crossroads, but the Americans will do their best to prevent it from choosing the path that best suits its interests.
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, did not break the unilateral economic options imposed by America, and France and Britain before Lebanon, by announcing the day before yesterday about future cooperation with the People’s Republic of China, until the Chinese responded, publicly and privately, to the same message.
Nasrallah’s speech is not an improvisation or a result of the development of the current crisis, but rather the culmination of a path of contacts and discussions within Lebanon and within China, and between parties in the two countries that started years ago, slowly and with great caution.
But today, with the increase in the US dollar war on Lebanon and the region, with the aim of starving its people and imposing political concessions on it, the Chinese option is no longer a luxury, but rather an economic and development outlet, that changes the nature of economic relations in Lebanon, and rearranges strategic infrastructure, as long as it is an obstacle to any Evolved, causing a cycle of dependency and dependence on consumption.
Most of the potential activities of the Chinese in Lebanon revolve around building an infrastructure that guarantees the building of a Lebanese economy capable of moving from the role of the recipient to the role of the producer. From electricity to railways, waste treatment, and power generation from multiple sources, Chinese interests in the country appear to be a “shake” of old infrastructure, made to measure narrow cities and small numbers of residents, yet they do not have public space. This “bloating” was a condition, along with the rule of the sectarian quotas to secure stability in various stages for the role of Lebanon, as a bank, through which the Americans govern a large part of the movement of the Eastern Mediterranean funds.
Today, the massive increase in the population, the absence of any real economic trend, and the persistence of the quota policy have led to cities melted in the suburbs and the majority of the productive sectors have become lost. Toward a disguised “federalism”. And all this ruin does not guarantee the production of solutions. Rather, it guarantees the fragmentation of the country, in crises and in treatment alike, towards a disassembled central state and sectarian and doctrinal states that take palliative forms.
On the other hand, the Chinese approach to Lebanon does not have the intention of “charitable work”, but the development of the infrastructure in Lebanon is commensurate with the “Belt and Road” initiative, which was launched by China seven years ago, to redraw the Silk Road from the east towards the ancient West and Africa, with railways and lines Sea and air transportation, from the South China Sea to London in the north and Johannesburg in the southernmost part of Africa.
Lebanon, inactive, was not even on the map of “Belt and Road” in its first version. Had the initiative continued to neglect Lebanon’s importance, and with the presence of alternative ports within the initiative instead of the Lebanese ports, Lebanon would have lost the opportunity to turn it into a financial oasis and a passage for Chinese transportation lines and companies.
Undoubtedly, the American pressure on Israel, which was cited by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his recent visit to occupied Palestine, and the leaders of the occupying power warning him against cooperation with China, especially the Chinese investments intended to be implemented in the field of maritime transport, Ashdod port and technological industries, are in the interest of Direct Lebanese, and allows Lebanon to place its ports on the Chinese transportation map.
Nine strategic projects
More than one source concerned with the file of Chinese companies interested in investing in Lebanon, which is by the way one of the first ten major companies in China, estimates that the value of offers for Chinese investments exceeds the total of what the Cedar Conference can secure, and will reach more than 12.5 billion USD.
This amount includes the implementation of 9 major projects, most notably the railways and the electricity sector. The Chinese do not adhere to a single railway that extends along the coastline, but rather to an integrated network that makes Lebanon interconnected from one end to the other, through the coastline and linking the ports and the road to the Levant, including the Hammana tunnel, and the internal lines connecting the south to the Bekaa and the coast in the west, Damascus, and Homs in the east. This is complemented by an offer to qualify and manage a seaport.
The Chinese are also interested in setting up plants to produce electricity with fuel or gas, as well as solar electricity production facilities, which studies have been developed to generate over the course of the Litani River and its dams, in addition to other areas. The Litani River does not miss the Chinese concern, as the Chinese offer to clean up the riverbed and treat the pollutants that have made the river water and its course a non-viable place, instead of being a source of development and agricultural production development, and a factor of demographic stability. The same applies to the waste file, where the Chinese can offer advanced solutions to the worsening crisis, by building sorting, treatment and recycling plants to stop draining and pollution.
Sources have previously participated and organized meetings between the Chinese delegates and Lebanese officials, “The nature of financing in these projects takes various forms, from long-term loans up to 30 years with interest not exceeding 1.5%, and others through the BOT system, and the partnership between the public sector or the state and the sector The private”.
Next week, Lebanon will receive an official Chinese “message of interest” to implement the projects
And the day before yesterday, hours before Nasrallah’s speech, a Chinese message had landed in Beirut, confirming China’s desire to conclude deals it was conducting studies to buy a financial institution and a bank that would be a financial center for transferring Chinese companies money.
According to “Al-Akhbar” information, a group of major companies working in an integrated manner with each other expressed their actual willingness to work in Lebanon, despite the current circumstances. The sources confirm that “the reason why the Chinese delegations did not come to Lebanon is SK”, stressing that “the delegations will attend at the first opportunity that allows mobility and movement, and there is a high readiness at the official Chinese level.” The sources confirm that “several delegations had previously come to Lebanon and met with several political leaders, most notably Hezbollah, to discuss the possibility of cooperation.”
According to “Al-Akhbar” information, next week, it will carry a new official “message of interest” for the Lebanese government from Beijing, in which China pledges to implement the aforementioned projects, bearing in mind that the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, during the days of Minister Yusuf Fenianos, has previously signed a memorandum of understanding on transport and railways.
As the Chinese embassy in Beirut broke its silence, announcing its country’s readiness to fully and practically cooperate with Lebanon with an official statement, the American Ambassador Dorothy Shea tried to evade the burden of the country on the dollar crisis and the exchange rate of the lira in Lebanon in response to Nasrallah’s speech the day before yesterday, forgetting the recognition of the American envoy James Jeffrey, to Syria a few days ago, that “the cause of the collapse of the Syrian pound is the American actions”, based on developments in the situation in Lebanon, and specifically in the Lebanese banking sector.
From China to Iran and Iraq, Nasrallah’s understandings multiplied to secure Lebanon’s needs for fuel and grains, and to prevent the risk of hunger that Americans place as a price to adhere to the resistance weapon. Since before the formation of the new Iraqi government, which Hezbollah played a role in overcoming the obstacles before its president, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the Iraqis pledged to secure part of Lebanon’s oil needs and defer payment for two years or more with government guarantees, as well as opening Iraqi markets to Lebanese agricultural and industrial exports, especially During the visit by General Director of General Security Major General Abbas Ibrahim to Baghdad about a month ago. The same applies to Iran, which had previously allocated a tonnage of its oil tankers to the Lebanese market, with confirmation of alternatives to the dollar, including the Lebanese pound, or even the sale of fuel to Lebanon at very low prices than its actual value in the global market. Not only that, many Asian countries are interested in investing in Lebanon.
All these potential positives do not appear to be the object of consensus among the Lebanese, at the level of political forces or at the official level, where the reactions yesterday for the start of a counter-American campaign that makes cooperation with China the focus of internal disagreement over the form of Lebanon and its role and economy, in the wake of the economic collapse The central state is eroding to its worst condition
