Now they've created a new middle class again, over the past ten years. It's not very important. For the rich and the poor it is not the same. We have McDonald's, Johnny Walker, Starbucks. This is a kind of globalization, but at the same time it involves just a few people.
Foreign companies invest a great deal in Lebanon.
This is why today most of the people outside say there's no more war. People inside say things haven't changed. It's a competition. The Americans are very important, even when it's indirect. The French are important, the Japanese.