[Moderator Approved] Nothing can be done about Lebanon? People are already proving otherwise.

Tldr at the bottom

I’m getting pretty sick of hearing that nothing can be done about Lebanon.

I don’t accept it. It's defeatist and contradicts the small yet accumulating wins citizens have already won.

I’m a young Lebanese who has decided that if I’m going to complain about the state of this country, I should at least try to do something about it.

The most important thing I’ve learned from doing this is that I’m nowhere near alone. All across Lebanon there are people doing the work, and while it's been slow, there has been movement.

Over the past decade, Lebanon's change movement has secured incremental but important reforms, including access to information legislation, stronger anti-corruption and public procurement frameworks, new oversight institutions and electoral breakthroughs. These gains have expanded opportunities for citizens to scrutinize the state, challenge decisions and pursue accountability.

This new 'accountability system' is fragmented however, with institutions, political interference and weak enforcement often preventing decisions from being implemented. This is the next step, working out how sustained public pressure can translate formal accountability into practical outcomes, and wins have already began coming through.

We don’t need to start from zero. We need to get better at finding each other, learning from each other, building on what already works and turning thousands of separate efforts into something stronger than the sum of its parts. I really want to support this work and have been doing what one person can do; whatever they can.

I’m doing my best to contribute how I can by putting together a hub that draws from where citizen led action has been successful and translates it into a set of guides, frameworks and tools that can help our people replicate these wins.

The ecosystem of change in Lebanon is growing. I’m just trying to contribute one small piece of infrastructure to it. If you can do nothing else, at least take a look and let me know how you find its usab...
Post Author: /u/yourguy_jmk
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I had a debate with a Jew online and he said this

I was debating a Jew about the conflict in Palestine and the debate got heated because he was supporting the genocide based on religious beliefs then added more saying the Jews will also enslave and rape the Syrian and Lebanese women as their book permits.

**"Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man." Numbers 31:17-18**

**"As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies." Deuteronomy 20:14**

He got me so worried because based on what I saw and read, the Israelie army does resort to biblical references on many occasions to justify their actions, so they might resort to much more horrific biblical ethics in the future.
Post Author: /u/Serious-Anxiety6687
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Road chaos

Ya3ne sayer fi kamiyet ba2ar 3ala el tor2at bi kel manate2 bi Lebano, no exception (akid bi ba3ed el area shi khorafe)

La bye7termo ishara wala lanes w eloun 3leik ma bye2jebun.

Hol el ness kezemlun 2anoun salekh, zbout bel $1000 w ma7kame.

Mfakrin 7alun shi kheiyr mheme w a7san men kel el ness w mesta3jlin ma byentro.

W el police kel shaher bya3lo 7aje mkhaba 3al tint, w seat belt, w byerja3 byekhtefo.

Ma betshuf police 3al isharat aw highway aw aya way.

Akel w mar3a w elet san3a , bye2bado bas.

Over sar hal shi.
Post Author: /u/hamzechalhoub
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