Aoun Says Lebanon Ready to Grant Citizenship for Lebanese Descendents
President Michel Aoun on Monday said that Lebanon is ready to grant citizenship for the Lebanese descendants wishing to obtain it, the National News agency reported.
"Lebanon needs the support of its sons abroad to be able to withstand challenges at different levels," NNA quoted Aoun as saying.
Lebanon “is adamant about moving forward in preserving security and stability," he added.
Aoun made his remarks during a meeting at Baabda palace with a delegation of the National Federation of Syrian Lebanese American Clubs.
Separately, Aoun received Ministers Akram Shehayeb (Education) and Wael Abu Faour (Industry), who conveyed a message from Progressive Socialist Party leader, Walid Jumblat, on the current political developments.
The President later met with French Ambassador to Lebanon, Bruno Foucher, where talks focused on bilateral relations and cooperation.
Wiam wahab, michel samaha and co are unfortunately lebanese. The chose to sell their country, true. But they are lebanese.
But in poor shia families, you have thousands of girls of marrying age who could go each for 10 or 20k$, payable cash upon marriage to support her family, financed by rich arab states upon marriage. 10000$x 100000 pal refugee= 1billion usd.
For 1 billion usd they would watno 100,000 palestinian in lebanon. 1billion is nothing.
Shias have sold their sons as hezbollah mercenaries to fight for assad for less than that. What would prevent them to sell their daughters?
Lebanese nationality should be expensive. It should be given to investors willing to invest 1 million dollars in the country. Not given for cheap for so called feminist human rights.
This is a basic human right and has nothing to do with feminism. Maybe no one should get the Lebanese nationality until they are 21 years old and an all men panel of "true Lebanese nationals" decides the 21 year old applicants deserve it. Yeah this sounds ridiculous doesn't it.
So poor Lebanese families, Shia or otherwise, will not sell their men to woen who want a citizenship? The sons of these "sold men" are born Lebanese, regardless who they wed. What is the difference between a Lebanese women marring a Palestinian or a Syrian man, and a Lebanese man marrying a Palestinian or a Syrian woman? Maybe the laws should be change and only the sons and daughters of the Lebanese national, man or woman, get the citizenship, not the spouse. The spouse maybe could get it only after live in Lebanon for, say ten years, and are law abiding. You singled out Shia, others have singled out Sunnis and yet others all Muslim women or and even Christian women.
You say Lebanese nationality should be expensive. It already is. Just look at who and how they got it by way of the Nationalization decree that Michel Aoun signed. Reports are that he's preparing a new one.
We are in the orient. Rabb el 3ayleh is the man. It is not symetric as u want to portray it.
In the west, pushed by hollywood, they are giving more and more power to women, and that is breaking families. Our family structure is one of the best things in lebanon. Not retarded as ksa or iran, and not ridicylously emancipiated as the west. Let's not try to go all symetric for women, we will lose a lot as a society.
This will result in some Jewish Israelis getting Lebanese citizenship -- so there'll be Israel-Lebanese dual citizens. Amazing.