Hassan Diab
“Hassan Diab’s employment as a lecturer was a betrayal of the Canadian values of justice, safety and accountability,” said B’nai Brith Canada.
Hassan Diab should be fired from Carleton University and “promptly deported from Canada,” per Honest Reporting Canada.
The Lebanese-Canadian academic has been identified as a suspect since 1999, but Canada fought extradition to Paris for years.
Jonathan Spyer tells JNS, “What is happening in Lebanon is what happens when a country allows itself to be taken over by a franchise of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with all the corruption and eventual collapse and impoverishment which follows.”
In the meantime, Qatar announced that it would support the Lebanese Armed Forces with 70 tons of food per month for a year.
Its currency has lost 90 percent of its value with more than half the country living in poverty.
Israel is trying to “change the rules of engagement,” says Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab.
UNIFIL was “necessary and urgent” within the context of “violations by Israel of Lebanon’s sovereignty by land, sea and air,” said Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab.
Jonathan Spyer, an expert on the region at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, says a mutual deterrence system applies between Israel and Lebanon that could “be broken in the event of a conflagration involving Israel and Iran.”
New Lebanese premier Hassan Diab reportedly has the support of a majority of lawmakers, including those affiliated with Hezbollah and its allies, but still needs the support of key Sunni figures.
