Lebanese Businessmen Plan Meetings with Gulf Officials over Yemen Strikes
Lebanese businessmen in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are planning to visit Gulf countries to announce their support for the Saudi-led coalition against Huthi rebels in Yemen, al-Liwaa daily reported on Tuesday.
The tour of the Lebanese expatriates is aimed at throwing their weight behind the decision of Saudi King Salman last month to carry out air strikes against the Shiite rebels to defend Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansur Hadi's government, said the report.
Al-Liwaa also said that other delegations of Lebanese expats in the Gulf are planning to meet with top Lebanese officials to express their concern over Hizbullah's verbal attacks on GCC leaders, mainly King Salman.
The newspaper quoted a Lebanese source in the Gulf as saying that the financial transactions carried out by Lebanese, who work in the region, reached about 6 billion dollars in 2014.
There are around 500,000 Lebanese expats in the Gulf, the source said.
Last month, the UAE, which hosts 100,000 Lebanese workers, expelled around 70 expatriates, mostly Shiites.
In 2009, dozens of Lebanese Shiites who had lived in the UAE for years were expelled on suspicion of links with Hizbullah.
In 2013, Qatar deported 18 Lebanese nationals after the GCC decided to impose sanctions against Hizbullah for its military intervention in war-torn Syria to support President Bashar Assad.
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9 years
hahahahhaahahahaha yea right geha, it has nothing to do with decades of saudis sponsoring wahhabi intolerant, extremist and hateful views
9 years
you mean like celebrating the death of Omar and cursing the Sahaba as they do in your country of origin Iran. Rafsanjani attributed the hate for shias to exactly those issues among others.
9 years
sadly, the worst enemy is the one within. you can try to reason with them, but those iranian farsi slaves have no will of their own. they turn down any chance of unity because they can only see short-term, untill the next iranian paycheck. they'd sell the country's past and future for a few rials, actually they already have.
9 years
The version i originally posted made more sense eagleyawn, replace "iranian" with "saudi" and you'll be credible.
9 years
keep posting your empty propaganda mowaten, every time i see you rushing to troll after me i am reminded of how much i bother you :)
9 years
And again you steal my lines. You must really love them, I'll take this as a compliment :)
9 years
(1). No sooner than one posts an opinion would head butting start and those silly thumb downings follow, OK be my guest guys. But some truths must be told, masalan, when the late Rafic Hariri was still alive and up until 2005, Lebanon was stable, prosperous and things were by and large getting better. We built many projects in the country, highways, infrastructure, foreign investment was going smoothly and nicely, there was a building boom going on in the country and for once Beirut was hoping to be on par with Dubai. We had two shopping festivals every year, we had cultural festivals, Beirut was becoming truly cosmopolitan, we all thought, finally, we're getting out of the woods. But when the Syrian left, Sayed Hassan and his militia Hezbollah, and their allies at the FPM made sure that we shall see none of that.
9 years
(2). Today in 2015, Lebanon looks more like a ghost-town, the infrastructure is falling apart, businesses closing one after the other, our factories moving one after the other to the Gulf, Aramex, Ghandour to name a few giants. Lebanon is now so poor that we can only go on holidays to Turkey, or Dubai, it's like going out of hell and to heaven for a few days. You open some papers and the adverts are there, arrogant and starring you in the face, company looking for Syrian nationals for $.... a month. Lebanon is but a shadow of its former self, thank you ya Sayed Hassan, thank you ya Aboul Mish, you did indeed a great job between the two of you. Allah yer7amak ya Hariri.
9 years
phoenix:
I want to confess a secret. I come from a rather "conservative" Christian family. My family viewed Hariri as a threat for whatever reason, perhaps jealousy. Traditionally, the Christians were the economic power and driving force behind Lebanon's economic growth and influence. I hope you get my point. I was talking to my father only a week ago and you know what> I could swear he was saying the same thing. He said " Zalmneh lal Hariri, Allah yer7hamo kein rijjeil".
My father was a strong Aoun supporter so was I thinking this man will come true to his words. Like everybody else, we found out he is a lunatic, selfish, and destructive human being.
9 years
the day you finally kick the bucket and rid humanity of your evil is the real ossa mish mou2assira!
9 years
seriously flamethrower, this is no debate(: if you have nothing to say, please just vote and remain silent:)
9 years
Peace and Ex-Fpm thanks guys. Me too I am from a Southern Christian family and to be honest we never liked Hariri in the beginning, we thought that he was an opportunist. But then we saw that he was a man that gave the Lebanese equal opportunities in education and careers. I came to admire his courage in taking decisions, like downtown, when it was but a mere wreck. What we also admired him for, was to make Lebanon rise from its ashes again, a feat no one really dared undertake but him. For some years, we Lebanese felt the prosperity, we felt the pride of returning back to the club of civilized nations, alas, now with Sayed Hassan, his slave Aboul Mish Aoun and masters, we seem to be getting closer to a Huseyniyeh.
9 years
has hezbollah even have an economic program? have they ever delivered a speech on how to improve lebanese economy? NO... their agenda is to spread chaos and ask for war to maintain Lebanon weak so they can survive and be a faithful tool for iran...
so all those pretending to be "patriots" defending hezbollah are nothing more than hypocrits or just empty brain people....
hizbushaitan is the reason why shia are hated in the whole region.