After Shipwreck, Lebanese Survivors Return to Poverty

More victims of the destabilisation of Syria by USrael.
After Shipwreck, Lebanese Survivors Return to Poverty — Naharnet: 
"In Kabiit, a village nestled beneath verdant mountains, Assaad supported his family on $13 a day before deciding to sell everything -- his house, his car, his land and his cow -- to pay for passage to Australia, the "Eden" to which many of his fellow villagers had gone.
"I don't want to be rich. I just want to live decently. Here we live in humiliation," he said.
Criminal networks have descended on the region to take advantage of Syrians fleeing the civil war, offering cut-rate passage to Australia via Indonesia that has encouraged poor Lebanese to try their luck as well.
"Many of those who left lead good lives now. We were not so lucky," said Assaad, who paid $70,000 to smugglers."