Trump has trumpeted in the past that he is "defending" Lebanon's Christians - based on what his right-wing Lebanese whisperers like Massaad Boulos tell him. Lebanon's expatriate community in the US voted en masse for Trump because, just as they do in Lebanon, they love "strong" men who sell them bullshit but then stab them in the back. Lebanon's recent history, beginning in 1975, saw the Christians defend the State against a coalition of Sunni Muslim fundamentalists, Palestinians, Syria's Assad Baathist regime, Saudis, Kuwaitis, Druze, Shiite radicals (e.. Hezbollah), Libyans, European Communists and anarchists, and others who were trying to expel the Christians and transform Lebanon into a substitute Palestine.
Throughout that period, US foreign policy - particularly Republican administrations - consistently opposed the recovery of sovereignty by the Lebanese State and the Christians because the US did not want to displease the oil-soaked Saudis, Libyans, and Kuwaitis who were financially and militarily backing the Muslim-Communist-Palestinian coalition against the Christians. In 1983, Ronald Reagan lost 243 US servicemen and marines in a terrorist attack (second only to 9-11 in numbers of US casualties) mounted by Syria-Iran and Hezbollah in Beirut. What did he do? He withdrew the remaining Marines and fled like a coward. Had he stood his ground against Assad and Khomeini, and backed the nascent government of President Amine Gemayel, Lebanon would have been at peace since 1983 and the region would not be in its current crisis.
This duplicitous game is exactly what the Americans are playing with the Ukrainians: Realpolitik "greater" interests will eventually sacrifice Ukraine in order not to displease Russia's Putin.
And all those imbeciles of the Lebanese Christian community and the Lebanese-American community who "love" the moron Trump are now having to deal with his administration's revocation of student visas, harassment at ports of entry, and eventually sacrificing Lebanon for ISraeli and Saudi interests. We've been there for the past 50 years; nothing indicates a reversal of stupid short-term US policies.
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Christian Lebanese American US citizen couple detained and ill-treated without explanation after returning from Canada
Bachir and Jessica Atallah
A Lebanese American citizen says he and his wife were detained for hours by US border agents when they returned to the United States after a short trip to Canada. Bachir Atallah and his wife Jessica were driving back into the US on Sunday evening after visiting family in Canada for the weekend when U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped them at the Highgate Springs checkpoint in Vermont.
Atallah said he was told to park his Range Rover and hand over his keys. When he asked the officer why, the officer placed his hand on his gun and told him to exit his vehicle, Atallah said. He said he was then handcuffed and led into a cell, where his belongings were confiscated. He said his wife was put into a cell across from his.
“Seeing my wife’s mascara running because she was crying, it was heartbreaking,” Atallah said. “It wasn’t humane.”
While detained, Atallah said he gave CBP agents the passcode to his phone after they asked for it. Despite his pleadings, agents never told him why he and his wife were being detained and never read him his rights.“I feared for my life,” Atallah said.
CBP officials said in a statement that “CBP officers acted in accordance with established protocols. Upon arrival at the port of entry, the traveler was appropriately referred to secondary inspection – a routine, lawful process that occurs daily and can apply for any traveler.”
A mass deportation campaign is being carried out by the administration, seemingly at random and just so Donald Dumb can claim some success in his first 100 days. People from allied countries, like the UK, Germany and others have been arrested and detained for weeks without any due process as they fly into the US or cross the Mexican or Canadian border. Donald Dumb has even issued threats to deport US-born American citizens to offshore prisons.
Without answers as to what was going on, Atallah said he started to have chest pains and felt dizzy, and told CBP to call an ambulance. He thought he was going to end up in a chain gang and flown to El Salvador's prison. He was told by CBP that if he went to the emergency room, an officer would accompany him and then return him to the cell to start the entire process from the beginning. He said he chose to stay, to not to leave his wife.
After he was handcuffed, he was allowed to call his lawyer, his sister Celine Atallah, who is an immigration attorney. A person identifying himself as an officer at US Customs and Border Patrol left a voicemail message on Celine’s phone close to 9 p.m., informing her Atallah and his wife were detained at Highgate Springs CBP and would “be here for a little while".
Eventually, Bachir and Jessica were let go around 11 p.m. Sunday. “Thank God we’re safe,” they said in Arabic once they got into their car to drive home. When reached by phone on Friday, Atallah said he had fled to Lebanon and, after his and wife’s treatment last week by Trump administration border officials, he’s worried about returning to the US and fears retailation. “I hope they don’t retaliate because I’m speaking out,” Atallah said.
This is how the racist xenophobic Donald Dumb administration hopes to "bleach" America into a whites-only country: By harassing, persecuting, deporting, revoking visas and passports, and such other tools against people from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the white supremacist racists of the Donald Dumb administration hope to slow down the erosion of the white anglo-saxon majority demographic advantage they've had so far. Statistical projections indicate that this white majority will no longer be a majority, but only the largest minority, by 2050. In essence, this is what the Zionists have been doing in Palestine: harassing, deporting, killing, massacring, persecuting the indigenous Palestinian population in the hope of "purifying" the land of its "Human animals" (i.e. Palestinians) and replacing them with foreign white Jewish extremists. No wonder the US is the only country on earth to still side with Israel in its genocide in Palestine.
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