The disgusting spectacle of Macron, representing the former colonial power, trying to make political gain out of the Beirut blast which has left hundreds of thousands homeless.

France, together with the UK, carved up the region in the treaties of Sykes-Picot and Sevres without any reference to the peoples living there and their national aspirations. Or rather, against the wishes of the peoples and pitting one against another.

It was France which created a Lebanese set up which guaranteed never ending sectarian division thus guaranteeing their continued domination after formal independence was granted. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-a-french-colonial-legacy-of-despair-6229826.html

at the heart of most of the conflicts in the Middle East is the legacy of imperialist meddling and the carving up of the region in such a way that would guaranteed the continued domination of the old colonial masters (France and the UK) https://wellredbooks.net/the-first-world-war-a-marxist-analysis-of-the-great-slaughter.html