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We Are The Joke For April Fools’ Day This Year

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On the occasion of April Fools’ day, today’s caricature in the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat was simply our Lebanese flag as a statement that our republic is nothing more than a joke.

Not sure whether we should laugh or cry.

Update:

Asharq Al-Awsat ended up removing the caricature from their website following the rage expressed over it on social media.

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Alexa as viewed from space

The Washington Post posted some photos that were taken yesterday by NASA of the snowstorm Alexa that hit the region last week.

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The white areas on the land are all snow, another wider photo shows that even a northern area of Saudi Arabia got a little bit of snow.

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On a side note, the author of the article might have to consider educating himself a bit more about the middle east as he thinks “it is quite something” to see snow around here and our neighbors!

 NASA’s Earth Observatory has posted a photo of the storm taken from space. It was taken Dec. 15, after the storm had passed and the skies had cleared; the white areas on the land are snow, not clouds. It’s quite something to see the snow across Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

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