“Lo Stato membro dell’UE più vicino al Medio Oriente è Cipro, quindi aprite le frontiere marittime per le persone che vogliono andarci”, ha detto il leader di Hezbollah. Pensieri?

Context: he said this in response to the EU bribing the Lebanese government to stop Syrian refugees from going to the EU.

His point is the EU should lift the sanctions on Syria so that the Syrians can go back home and make a living there. Lebanon shouldn’t have to maintain a refugee population the size of a quarter of its own population.

In addition to this, the EU and US sanction make it difficult for any aid to be provided in Syria, so refugees living on international aid in Lebanon, would lose the aid if they go to Syria (where they’d be homeless and without jobs)