Cyprus to EU: If Lebanon Collapses, Europe will have a problem

Update 28-Sept-2023:

As the Syrian regime of the war criminal Bashar Assad (who was recently re-admitted to the Arab League by his fellow Arab dictators, and was welcomed like a king by the Chinese Communist dictator) is sending thousands of illegal Syrian migrants across the lawless Lebanese Syrian border, it is a certainty that some these migrants will try to ride boats en route to EU member state Cyprus.

His occupation army having been evicted like dirty rats by an angry Lebanese population in 2005 for the assassination of dozens of Lebanese journalists, MPs, and critics of the Syrian occupation, including then-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Assad is retaliating with a "demographic" invasion and occupation. In addition to these illegals migrants, networks of criminals (Syrians and Hezbollah operatives) along the border are issuing fake Lebanese ID cards to these illegals. Meanwhile the UNHCR is issuing refugee cards to Syrian illegal migrants who are not refugees. With the beginning of the school year, Lebanese education authorities estimate that Syrian students now number 700,000 attending Lebanese schools and colleges, alongside some 1,250,000 Lebanese students. 

The EU and the UN are willfully trying to keep these Syrian illegals inside Lebanon for two objectives: 1- they fear a new massive wave of Syrian migration into Europe via Turkey, Cyprus and Greece, and 2- they want to force Lebanon (4 million native population) to settle upwards of 2.5 million Syrian illegals, a number growing every day, to deliberately change the demographics of the country and bring an end to Lebanon as we know it. 

Instead of dealing with the problem by forcing the dictator Assad to take his people back, this criminal policy of the EU, the UN and international non-governmental organizations is spreading the problem to all the countries of the region. They refuse to aid the refugees if the refugees decide to move back to Syria which has now large parts of its territory safe for return. Syrian families that settle in Lebanon get paid thousands of dollars, with an increase of the aid for every newborn child, thus not only giving the Syrians an incentive to stay in Lebanon, but also an incentive to have more children. The average Syrian woman of child-bearing age gives birth to 8 children in the illegal migrant camps, compared with 3 for her Lebanese counterpart. Which means that in one generation, the Syrian population inside Lebanon will outnumber the native Lebanese population. EU member states like Cyprus are raising the alarm.

Add to the growing influx of illegals moving into Lebanon to benefit from European and UN financial assistance, the economic collapse of Lebanon caused by the Syrian regime's proxies, namely the Iranian-Syrian Shiite duo Hezbollah-Amal, is in turn causing the emigration of thousands of Lebanese citizens. 

In sum, it seems that the international community appears to have taken on the job that Henry Kissinger failed to accomplish: During the 1970s and 1980s the American war criminal Kissinger, in collusion with the Syrian Baathist regime and the Zionist colony of Israel, sent the PLO and the Syrian army to occupy Lebanon with the objective of dismantling it and turn it into a substitute Palestine in order to relieve Israel of the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees who were ethnically cleansed out of Palestine by Jewish terrorism when the artificial state of Israel was fabricated.

Now the UN and the EU have embarked on a similar scheme: They are deliberately trying to decimate what remains of the State of Lebanon, force the Christian population to flee, and create a new Muslim majority Lebanon that would more readily integrate the Syrian and Palestinian refugees who are Muslims. Just like the international community did with the creation of the artificial Muslim state of Kosovo in the heart of Europe at the expense of Christian Serbia, and just like the international community is doing with the ethnic cleansing of the Christian Armenians from their ancestral lands in Nagorno-Karabakh in order to appease and buy gas and oil from the Muslim dictatorship of Azerbaijan.

EU member Cyprus continues to warn Brussels that it, Cyprus, will be the prime destination of these illegals who will seek to continue on to Europe. Cyprus is asking the EU to offer financial and technical aid to Lebanon to help it cope with the influx of Syrian illegals and keep them from reaching the island, its interior minister said on Wednesday.

Constantinos Ioannou also said Nicosia had offered to donate speedboats and conduct joint patrols with Lebanon after recent arrivals by sea suggested trafficker routes had shifted away from Turkey and towards the Lebanese coast.

"It's estimated that there are about 2.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon so you can imagine the scale of the problem Lebanon itself faces, with a population of 5 million and which isn't even receiving technical or financial aid from the EU," Ioannou told Cyprus state radio.

In retaliation for the existential threats caused by EU and UN policies, Lebanese security forces have issued a warning that they will no longer intercept boats carrying illegal Syrians and Palestinians out of the Lebanese coast en route to Cyprus or Greece. Cypriot authorities say they expect new inflows of Syrian and Palestinian illegal migrants based on interviews with recent arrivals from Lebanon.

Some 800,000 Syrians are registered with the UNHCR in Lebanon, but Lebanese authorities say the real number of Syrian refugees in their country is 2.5 million.

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Cyprus asks EU to Allow it To Repatriate Syrian Faux-Refugees.

"Lebanon is a barrier. If Lebanon collapses, then all of Europe will have a problem" (Cypriot Interior Minister Ioannou)

The European country of Cyprus - divided between Christian Greeks and Muslim Turks since 1974 - said Friday it has asked the bloc to review whether Syria really is an unsafe country. Cyprus wants to rid itself of the thousands of Syrians, the vast majority of whom are not refugees but economic migrants. It needs the approval of the EU to begin repatriating asylum-seekers.

Whereas Cyprus is reeling under massive Syrian migration which has led to a rise of racially-motivated attacks on foreigners in recent weeks amid growing anti-migrant sentiment, Lebanon's calls for the UN to officially publish the numbers of Syrian refugees registered with it have been ignored, and UN officials of various agencies have called for the permanent settlement of the Syrians in Lebanon. The number of Syrians entering Lebanon in recent weeks has reached levels which, combined with the very high birth rates among the "refugees", could turn Lebanon into a majority Syrian country.

Lebanon's native population is 4 million. There are 2.5 million Syrians present on Lebanese soil, and these numbers are increasing by about 3,000-5,000 a day - mostly young men who did their military service in Syria - through illegal entry across a lawless border controlled by Hezbollah and the Syrian regime. Of these 2.5 million Syrians on Lebanese soil, only about 800,000 are eligible refugees. The rest are economic migrants, terrorists, Syrian regime-informants, smugglers, and affiliates of the terrorist Hezbollah organization. More dangerously, there are rumors that the Syrian regime, which occupied Lebanon militarily for 30 years, is dispatching these militarily-trained young men into Lebanon for the ultimate objective of "demographically" occupying the country, mobilizing  them for war, and Syrianizing Lebanon's population. 

Cypriot Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said he would try to persuade the EU and the United Nations to end Syria’s status as an unsafe country for refugees to be returned to. "We, as Cyprus, consider and find it conducive, along with other member states, that the status of Syria should be re-evaluated," he told reporters. He said the EU has had Syria's status unchanged for 11 years, and a review is needed to declare many areas inside Syria as safe for the migrants to be deported back there.

"There are already two areas recognised by the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA) as safe areas," he said. “.... it must now also be recognized at the level of the European Union [that it should] allow us to deport or return people to Syria. At the moment, no country can do so.” 

Lebanon for its part has often been accused by the EU and the UN of being a racist country because it is suffocating economically as a result of the large numbers of Syrian refugees and migrants. The UN and the EU have turned deaf ears to Lebanon's appeals for help, considering the alarming demographic threat to the existence of Lebanon. If the Syrian population in Lebanon becomes equal to, or suprasses, the native Lebanese population, the country stands to disappear by becoming a province of Syria: A major ideological platforms of the Syrian Baath Party is the "reunification" of Lebanon with Syria. The other more likley possibility is that Lebanon, again, descends into conflict. During the 1970s, the Palestinian refugees tried to turn Lebanon into a substitute Palestine (with help from the Americans, Saudis, and Syrians), but they have failed to defeat the Lebanese resistance. Right now, many Lebanese are calling for dividing the country into separate entities (with terms like "decentralization" or "partition"), some of which might want to integrate the Syrians while others reject the idea.

In a letter to the European Commission, Cypriot Minister Ioannou did not mince his words regarding the disaster facing Lebanon. He said he raised the urgent need for aid to Lebanon, where it is estimated that 2.5 million Syrians have taken refuge. "The information we have from the authorities in Lebanon is that there is an increase in Syrians moving to Lebanon".

"Lebanon is a barrier. If Lebanon collapses, then all of Europe will have a problem," he said.

In recent months, Cyprus has seen a surge of asylum seekers, most of them Syrian, arriving by sea from Syria and Lebanon.

The government argues that Cyprus is a "frontline" country on the Mediterranean migration route, with asylum-seekers making up six percent of the 915,000 population in government-controlled areas - the highest proportion in the bloc.