10-14-2021, 06:41 AM
** 14-Oct-2021 World View: Gun battles in Beirut Lebanon
I'm way too sleepy to write a coherent story, but I'm watching this
live on the BBC and it appears to be a really big deal. Here's what I
understand:
-- Deadly shooting rocks Beirut as tensions over blast probe erupt
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-eas...021-10-14/
(Reuters, 14-Oct-2021)
** 17-Jul-21 World View -- Lebanon's self-destruction continues as government collapses again a year after port disaster
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e210717
I'm way too sleepy to write a coherent story, but I'm watching this
live on the BBC and it appears to be a really big deal. Here's what I
understand:
- There was a port blast a little over a year ago in Beirut.
It was huge, and it flattened the entire city. The government
is to blame.
- The entire economy has collapsed. Electricity is available at
most two hours a day, and often zero hours a day. The government is
to blame.
- There has been an investigation to find out who in the government
is to blame. Rumors are that the investigation is finding Hezbollah
is to blame, which doesn't surprise me in the least.
- There were protests this morning by Hezbollah protesters and their
Shia Amal political party demanding
that the investigation be ended.
- Christian militias tried to end the protests, and this led to the
gun battles that killed several people. I don't know whether they
were Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's (Iran-supported Shia Muslim) Hezbollah /
Amal people or whether they were Michel Aoun's (Syriac Maronite
Catholic) Christian militia people.
- Now I do. The dead are five pro-Hezbollah protesters who were
"shot in the head."
- Switching over to al-Jazeera, where the coverage is much more
intense: The Christian snipers are shooting from buildings. Hezbollah's
army is conducting searches of all the building.
- The gun battles are ongoing. The gun battle is now in its fourth
hour. There are now six people dead.
- It's now escalating -- machine guns, rocket-propelled
grenades.
- There's talk of a fear of a renewal of the 1980s civil war, but
that's impossible because Lebanon is in a generational Unraveling era.
This gun battle is in the generational Democide pattern that describes
what happens in the decades following an ethnic civil war.
-- Deadly shooting rocks Beirut as tensions over blast probe erupt
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-eas...021-10-14/
(Reuters, 14-Oct-2021)
** 17-Jul-21 World View -- Lebanon's self-destruction continues as government collapses again a year after port disaster
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e210717
