This is popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky

details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to writer and researcher Joey Ayub.

He has a very good understanding historically and context-wise of the Lebanon protest which have been going on for two weeks right now.

Joey's been on the ground for these protests. He's still there. He's in Beirut.

So he's going to give us an idea of where they've come from and what he thinks is going to happen next.

It's also worth mentioning that these protests are different.

They are not sectarian yet, although there have been various

paramilitaries beating up protesters Joey himself was actually punched up a bit

So yeah he's gonna give us an idea of what's going on

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So I know a lot has happened recently with the protests in Lebanon but maybe if we go back to the start

and tell us how did this all happen how is it that everybody came out into the streets and started

these protests? So it obviously it's a combination of things.

It was, there's a lot of media focusing on the so-called WhatsApp Tax.

Essentially what happened is that

were very very bad wildfires that spread across the country.

And within the span of something like 48 hours

we lost more or less our annual

average so that's about 3 million trees and that's in a very very small country so

we sort of doubled our yearly average of three losses in just 48 hours and a big reason of why that happened

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