Shocking: Lebanese Association Fraternizes with “Friends with IDF”

Veils of suspicious attempts to naturalize ties with “Israel” are uncovered.

“AL-Akhbar” Lebanese daily reported Tuesday that the “Lebanese society” at an American university is hosting a joint event with an “Israeli” one.
“The Lebanese Social Club (LSC) at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) is organizing a charity fundraiser with the “Israeli” Leadership Council for the disenfranchised children of “Israel” and Lebanon,” the daily said.

The group is part of the Lebanese Collegiate Network (LCN), which is heavily sponsored by the CIA is no more than a little recruitment center for the American spy network.
The tagline for the “Night of the Arts” event, scheduled for May 6 in the Ackerman Student Union at UCLA, stated that it “will be a grand celebration of the culture,
passion, and ethos of the “Israeli” and Lebanese peoples.”

It added that “all profits will be divided equally 50/50 among orphanages in “Israel” and Lebanon,” without mentioning the thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians killed by “Israel” in recent decades.

The Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said “the government was to look into whether the event was legal under the Lebanese law.”
“We will investigate whether the Lebanese Social Club consists of Lebanese citizens or Lebanese Americans,” he said.
The stated aim of the “Israeli” Leadership Council, which is co-organizing the event, is to “build an active and giving “Israeli”-American community in order to strengthen the “State of Israel”.”

The group also has a close relationship with the “Friends of the “Israeli Defense Forces” charity.
Event co-organizer Patrick Malkoun, from the university’s Lebanese Social Club, said he had not been aware of any legal issues concerning Lebanese citizens having dealings with the “Israelis”.
“I think the world want us to have “Israeli” and Lebanese children putting their business brains together for something that is not political. These are children, who don’t have a say in politics,” he claimed.

Samah Idriss, Director of the Campaign to Boycott “Israel” Supporters in Lebanon, said the group’s decision undermined attempts to isolate “Israel”.
“At a time when tens of artists and thousands of people around the world are boycotting “Israel”, a bunch of “Lebanese” students attempt to normalize relations with “Israel”. I hope Lebanese students at UCLA who know the meaning of national dignity stand up to those “Israeli”-Lebanese,” he said.