Sabrina Deliry 🇲🇫🇮🇱🐾
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Scribouilleuse et empêcheuse de tourner en rond ↪️ Co-fondatrice et Trésorière de l'AFGRC (Asso 🇲🇫 des Grands Reporters) - @CPAE_ThinkTank & @Obs_du_GA #EHPAD
🔴 Iran : "La population iranienne traverse aujourd’hui une crise économique, sociale et humaine dramatique, aggravée par les coupures d’internet et la répression", alerte Hirbod Dehghani-Azar. #Le23hWeekEnd #canal16
When Bashir Gemayel asked the French to “leave him alone.” Throughout the 1982 siege of Beirut, French diplomats counseled the PLO to hold fast and remain in the Lebanese capital until they had secured political gains — namely, American recognition of the PLO and possibly U.S. support for Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza. Bashir Gemayel, by contrast, simply wanted the PLO to leave. French efforts on behalf of the Palestinians infuriated him. It did not help, of course, that Bashir was eyeing the presidency, while the French reportedly preferred extending President Elias Sarkis’s mandate for another year. By the end of June 1982, Bashir was no longer even willing to engage with the French. He told two French intelligence representatives that he “had not asked the French to do anything” and that “he was fed up and wanted the French to leave him alone.” The consequences of Arafat’s stalling in Beirut were catastrophic for the city. His departure was postponed until late August 1982 while Beirut continued to suffer under siege. Eventually, Arafat left without securing any gain; that was French wishful thinking. One can reasonably argue that countless lives might have been saved had the French-backed Arafat departed in June rather than in August 30 of that year. When archives pertaining to Macron's Mideast policy become available decades from now, one wonders what additional blows dealt to Lebanon may be uncovered there.
