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2021-06-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Gebran Bassil 'coerced' my father to apologize, says Lebanese woman hailed for confronting MP
[ARABNEWS] A Lebanese woman hailed as a hero for confronting the widely despised MP Gebran Bassil
...arrogant, overbearing son-in-law of Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah suck-ass and wannabe Bashir al-Assad who plans on being president of what's left of Leb as soon as the old man's dead and the votes have been phonied up...
, has vowed to remain defiant despite claiming her father was forced to apologize for her actions.

On Sunday, a video was widely shared of Yasmine Masri scuffling with bodyguards working for the head of the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
[FPM] after she heckled him with a cry of "shame on you."

The brawl took place at a restaurant in Bassil’s home town of Batroun, northern Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch...
Masri said she was assaulted and had her phone broken by his security entourage but she told Arab News she was proud to confront Bassil. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
she said her father had been "coerced into apologizing" for her the bust up.

On Tuesday, a photo of the MP and the 31-year-old woman’s father was published in Lebanese media along with a story saying he met Bassil and apologized for his daughter’s behavior.

Masri was having lunch with friends in a newly-opened restaurant in Batroun when she saw Bassil and his entourage.

Lebanese are furious with the ruling elite and blame them for plunging the country towards economic collapse.

As the son-in-law of Lebanese President Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
and a strong political ally of Iran-backed Hezbollah, Bassil in particular has come to symbolize the country’s corrupt self-serving politicians.

Last year, the US issued sanctions against him, accusing him of being "notorious for corruption."

Speaking to Arab News, Masri said Bassil "forced her father in to apologizing under threat, blackmailing and shaming him." She preferred not to give details of the nature of the blackmail.

"I have received physical threats," she said. "Just now, shortly before responding to this interview my mother called and asked me to stop; saying she doesn’t want to pick me up injured from a hospital."

But Masri, who like many young Lebanese is broiling with anger over the country’s plight, vowed not to stop expressing herself.

The food and drink manager was angered that Bassil had the audacity to show up in public as if he had no responsibility for the country’s woes.

Recounting what happened, she felt within her rights to shout "shame on you" in Arabic.

She said Bassil sent his bodyguards over to her and they threatened to beat her.

"I told them go ahead and they started beating me ... then I took back my phone and followed them and took a video. Then they beat me again and threw my phone on the floor and broke it," she added.

Masri said FPM supporters chased her for up to four hours around Batroun after the initial clash and would not let her leave the area.

"Batroun’s pompous blowhards [supporters of FPM and Bassil] were spitting at me, insulting me and threatening me all over the place," she said.

Masri describes herself as a politically-independent civil society activist, who became active during widespread anti-government protests in October 2019.

Posted by Fred 2021-06-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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