Do you want to destroy a country? Destroy its human capital
This is what is happening currently in Lebanon, by reducing growth perspective, encouraging corruption, and destroying the pubic education system. This reading may offend some people, but it’s the truth.
The largest threat to most countries is not rich countries, but intellectually fruitful ones. Lebanon has a high concentration of intelligent people with potential, who can change the world if the world let them. The majority of these Lebanese left the country and developed their ideas abroad, due to the lack of funds, support and fairness in Lebanon. This is continuing with the support of foreign rich countries to corrupted politicians, as they turn Lebanon into a hole of poverty and extremism.
Lebanon is not as big as Israel, it does not have many riches, it is not as advanced in sciences and technologies, nor does it have an army as large and powerful. The only threat that Lebanon represents is in its people and their capabilities.
This is why politicians are supported in their attack on our pollution, since more pollution = more diseases = more sick people = less people capable of creating. They are also supported in their attack on the public education system, since poor people will have to rely on public education, so they made public schools extremely weak, and they are attacking the Lebanese university due to the success of many departments in it, to the extend of one minister demanding to close the only public university in Lebanon.
This is why also corruption is extremely welcomed and supported by the USA, Israel, GCC and other countries: putting an unqualified person in a position of power destroys the whole system. Just like before, kings were chosen stupid and reckless so their counselors were the real rulers, this is what is happening today, as we allow the corrupted politicians to be put in charge, when actually, they are mere puppets to other political forces.
If you think water is the blue gold for us, Israel has created already a desalination system that is low cost already and that will become more affordable with time.If you think it’s gas and oil, the era for oil is coming to an end and we will be producing a product that is no longer as desired as before in maximum two decades. Therefore it will cost more to extract it and its price will be low, and the extraction will cause multiple imbalances in the crust of the earth, so we will witness most probably more earthquakes with a higher severity, not to mention the increased risk of water pollution and loss of the few remaining fish populations.
If you think it’s Lebanon’s location, Israel has the same one, with more borders, and better preparations for import/export and general transportation.
The only weapon we have left is people, and we are losing our human capital by supporting unworthy politicians, who would sell our blood for 1 penny if it suits them. The next time anyone shouts “with our souls, with our blood, we sacrifice ourselves for you”, remember that politicians who cause wars remain in history’s memory, but the thousands and millions of soldiers who were on the battlefield and died for false pretenses, no one remembers them. You’re nothing to a politician but a dot they use in their campaigns to count the “heads” that will vote for them during elections. When you die, you will just be a lost voter.
Support the Lebanese university in its fight, support the Lebanese labor forces in their demands, support the Lebanese students in their demands. It may not be convenient for you now, but you will one day realize how selfishness caused you to be so near-sighted that you missed seeing how they will affect your future.
Hopeful Fatalist 