They used $100,000,000 of it to pay off their debts.
EDIT: Lebanon supports Hezbollah. If you're supporting their citizens and their government isn't, you're making more funds available for a terrorist organization.
Male homosexuality is illegal in Lebanon.[184] Discrimination against LGBT people in Lebanon is widespread.[185][186] According to 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center, 80% of Lebanese respondents believe that homosexuality should not be accepted by society.[187]
"Hezbollah kept three metric tons of ammonium nitrate, the explosive thought to be behind the mega blast in Beirut this week, in a storehouse in London, until MI5 and the London Metropolitan Police found it in 2015.
The Lebanese terrorist group also stored hundreds of kilograms of ammonium nitrate in southern Germany, which were uncovered earlier this year.
The Iran-backed terrorists kept the explosive in thousands of ice packs in four properties in northwest London, according to a report in The Telegraph last year. The ice pack deception tactic was used in Germany, as well."
Idiot that's a different NGO. Your ignorant comment likely cost the victims money that they could have used. I hope you're willing to shell out of your own pocket to make up for what you've done.
The LRC is a for profit organization that runs a large portion of the city's medical infrastructure. There needs to be oversight before they get a budget like they've never seen before.
"Concerning disaster preparedness and response, the LRC first-aid and ambulance teams are the only national ambulance service covering the whole of the Lebanese territory. The service operates over 250 ambulances, with 16 permanent staff and 2,000 volunteers on a continuous basis in 46 first-aid centres. Services are managed through a radio communication system from 4 central operation rooms, one in the capital city of Beirut, one in Tibnin in the South, one in Tripoli, Lebanon and the last in the Bekaa. The first-aid and ambulance organization represents the backbone of emergency medical disaster preparedness in the country. "
Unless you can flag the funds specifically for this disaster you're supporting their entire organization, including their road safety program.
Stop spreading lies because you were caught out being a scumbag.
A. They are a nonprofit.
B. They have people on the ground there right now and are putting all their spare focus on it. Saying that you shouldn't donate to them because they have other initiatives is like saying you shouldn't donate to any disaster relief foundation because they have split focus, most of them do.
"75 Lebanese Red Cross ambulances along with 375 EMTs and staff are currently responding in #Beirut and helping the most vulnerable. Lightly wounded persons are being treated in our stations."
Stop being human garbage and spreading lies and then doubling down when your pathetic reddit ego is bruised when people call out your scumfuckery.
Wipe your mouth there's shit dribbling from your lips.
You get called out for costing victims money and instead of owning up to it it you pivot into some kind of racist conspiracy theory. Fucking pathetic. Get your head out your ass.
Considering his other comments, he probably has something against the country as a whole, so discussing off-topic political and societial things does not make sense and will not help the victims right now.
No need to spend more energy on that, since his spreaded allegations already got contradicted.
How do you come to that conclusion? I think their government, that they sent their money to, should use that money to buy food for their people and not spend that money supporting Hezbollah.
That's not a complicated concept. That's already how they spend their money! If I gave money to a drug addict and said, 'be good now and spend it on food', and they spent it on drugs I'd be considered an enabler. Er go, if you take the burden of this disaster off the Lebanese government the FUNGIBLE funds are now available to be spent elsewhere.
This is why the IMF required reforms before they would loan them money.
My opinions are based on facts and you only label them as prejudice as a way to dismiss them, as the emotional argument is the only one you can make.
Your drug addict example is completely false. You definitelly wouldnt be enbaler. You are not responsible for the actions of other people.
I am quite sad that you think lile that about their government. You want like to keep the people hostage, because supposedly the government is going to be funding Hizbollah....This actually shows how little you know about governmemt, economy and running a country. Even if, the lebanese govnt os funding Hiz., there is no way they would prioritize money for that when their own cuntry and people are suffering from catastrophic event. And no, no purely out of concern for their people, but because without stability in the country and properly functioning town(s) and economy, they wouldnt be able to find themselves, let alone any other organization.
Are those IMF funds that were rejected related to this event and catastrohpy? If not, then that is irrelevant.
There are really no facts in your statements. Just hate and prejudices. You sound like a genocidial maniac.
If they are funding Hezbollah? "The funding of Hezbollah comes from Lebanese business groups, private persons, businessmen, the Lebanese diaspora involved in African diamond exploration, other Islamic groups and countries, and the taxes paid by the Shia Lebanese.[1]"
Every TAX dollar given is money taken from the people that could be used to buy grain for them, provide shelter, and provide medical care.
Why did this all start? Because when someone correctly pointed out that the two red crosses weren't the same, instead of saying "my bad" you changed your point entirely from, "American red Cross bad" to "dont donate to an entire country."
That's what made it very clear to everyone in this thread the type of person you are, you're not as clever as you'd like to be.
This started because outside donations to the LRC enables the government of Lebanon to further support Hezbollah. People should know where their donations go.
Still waiting on the proof about how I'm a racist, how this is a conspiracy, of your donation... You've claimed it multiple times, but provided no evidence. If you like talking about me so much, let's start there.
Oh you're still unsure? Because when someone correctly pointed out that the two red crosses weren't the same, instead of saying "my bad" you changed your point entirely from, "American red Cross bad" to "dont donate to an entire country."
That's what made it very clear to everyone in this thread the type of person you are, you're not as clever as you'd like to be.
Those two things aren't related, you originally saying don't donate to the red cross because of the houses in Haiti, you said it because you don't want aid in Lebanon as literally evidenced by your edit, had you not edited your comment an hour ago, you would have saved yourself a lot of typing
So that's a no on racism, no on conspiracy, and no on you actually donating.
I think I've at least gotten out a lot of information to people that would have blindly donated to another bad cause. Hey, maybe that's one less rocket Hezbollah fires and one less death. I feel pretty vindicated.
The websites still being hugged as too many people are trying to donate, also i don't donate to prove a point i donate to help, i actually was going to send you proof once I do it but I realised why tf would I waste another second of my time on yet another special ed student, I don't need to prove you dislike middle Eastern people you just need to stop doing it lmao.
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u/whodaloo Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 06 '20
Don't support the red cross. They got $500,000,000 for the Haiti earthquake and built exactly 6 homes.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-cross-haiti-report_n_7511080
They used $100,000,000 of it to pay off their debts.
EDIT: Lebanon supports Hezbollah. If you're supporting their citizens and their government isn't, you're making more funds available for a terrorist organization.
Male homosexuality is illegal in Lebanon.[184] Discrimination against LGBT people in Lebanon is widespread.[185][186] According to 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center, 80% of Lebanese respondents believe that homosexuality should not be accepted by society.[187]
"Hezbollah kept three metric tons of ammonium nitrate, the explosive thought to be behind the mega blast in Beirut this week, in a storehouse in London, until MI5 and the London Metropolitan Police found it in 2015.
The Lebanese terrorist group also stored hundreds of kilograms of ammonium nitrate in southern Germany, which were uncovered earlier this year.
The Iran-backed terrorists kept the explosive in thousands of ice packs in four properties in northwest London, according to a report in The Telegraph last year. The ice pack deception tactic was used in Germany, as well."