[Le président libanais] Michel Aoun left [le palais présidentiel de] Baabda as he entered it: at war against the rest of the world and with the certainty of being (again and always) “the Chosen One”. Not a word of regret, not the beginning of a mea culpa, not an ounce of questioning in his speech.
The President of the Republic gave yesterday [dimanche 30 octobre] the feeling of bearing no responsibility for the disastrous results of his own mandate. The general is obviously not the cause of all the ills of Lebanon. He is right to denounce, yesterday as today, the way in which the various political leaders have carved up the State for the benefit of their interests and those of their clienteles.
He is right to point out their allergy to any embryo of reform and the endemic corruption that prevails within them. He is right to hold the Governor of the Central Bank, Riad Salamé, to account for the monetary policy he has adopted.
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The Orient-The Day (Beirut)For a long time the French-language daily in Beirut, born in 1971 from a merger between the east et The day, was the perfect illustration of the French-speaking and Christian “Lebanon of Dad” that the civil war would make fun of. The departure of the elites fleeing the violence of the war and the decline of the French language in the country of the Cedars should have dealt the blow of the club to this newspaper.
Fortunately, these dire predictions did not come true. Not only thanks to the return to the country in the 1990s of thousands of French-speaking families fleeing an Africa torn by wars or a Europe in the grip of the economic crisis, but thanks to a real editorial dynamism and the arrival of a new generation of journalists who use a lively and hard-hitting French without preciosity, trickery, or conspicuous self-censorship… And it is no exaggeration to affirm that The Orient-The Day is today the most interesting Lebanese daily and one of the best in the Arab world.
The daily’s website also bears witness to this dynamism, since it is one of the few in the region to update its information several times a day. Admittedly, the old habits have not disappeared and the articles “of convenience” still occupy a small space, but this remains quite acceptable in the face of the distressing editorial decline of a certain Lebanese press. Even the worldly gossip of The Orient-The Day keep a second degree that can make us smile.
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