{"id":4721,"date":"2021-05-19T15:51:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:51:34","slug":"lebanons-fm-asks-to-quit-after-isil-comments-anger-gulf-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2021\/05\/19\/lebanons-fm-asks-to-quit-after-isil-comments-anger-gulf-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s FM asks to quit after ISIL comments anger Gulf states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/5\/18\/saudi-arabia-summons-lebanons-envoy-over-ministers-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, the foreign minister of Lebanon, Charbel Wehbe, appeared on network Alhurra TV sparring in argument with a Saudi speaker. In anger, he implied that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States are responsible for the creation and actions of ISIL. Wehbe’s phrasing was, translated, “Those countries of love, friendship and fraternity, they brought us Islamic State,” which in context heavily directed attention towards Saudis particularly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, following a controversy wherein the Saudis summoned a Lebanese envoy to detest the remarks, and Lebanese President Aoun quickly clarified his words were his own and in no way representative of the state of Lebanon, foreign minister Wehbe has submitted to be relieved of his position and duties in office. This request is a familiar omen to the Lebanese, given the recent unstable history of Lebanon’s government officials resigning shortly after taking office, only prolonging their deep economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The implications of Wehbe’s argument follow the historically recent division between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Only last month, Saudi Arabia suspended fruit and vegetable imports from Lebanon to attack smuggling lines in the industry, worsening their immense financial crisis. The Saudis could be a great asset to Lebanon in order to renew Lebanese banking to push back against the upward momentum of inflation in the state, however what investment Lebanon shared in the past with the Saudis has not been retained through the recession and crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the words of Wehbe likely will not have profound or lasting impacts on Saudi-Lebanese relations, the consequences are seen in the instability of Lebanon’s foreign offices not allowing for foreign investment to be effectively fostered. This relationship also follows the mounting trend of Saudi Arabia neglecting their offense on Hezbollah and surrendering Lebanon to Iranian influence as they seek traction in other parts of the Gulf States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/5\/18\/saudi-arabia-summons-lebanons-envoy-over-ministers-remarks On Monday, the foreign minister of Lebanon, Charbel Wehbe, appeared on network Alhurra TV sparring in argument with a Saudi speaker. In anger, he implied that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States are responsible for the creation and actions of ISIL. Wehbe’s phrasing was, translated, “Those countries of love, friendship and fraternity, they brought us Islamic State,” which… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}