{"id":26225,"date":"2013-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/26225\/the-tomato-revolution-is-pissing-off-politicians-and-police"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:24:37","slug":"the-tomato-revolution-is-pissing-off-politicians-and-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/26225\/the-tomato-revolution-is-pissing-off-politicians-and-police\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tomato Revolution is Pissing Off Politicians and Police"},"content":{"rendered":"  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/embed?video_id=10151695791665549\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>  <br \/>  <br \/>  The Tomato Revolution (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sawritelbanadoura?fref=ts\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Thawrat Al Banadoora<\/a>) was formed by civil society activists last month in protest over Parliament&#8217;s decision to extend its own term for another 17 months.<br \/>  <br \/>  Demonstrations have been held subsequently with every constitutional council meeting meant to address legal challenges to Parliament\u2019s extension. <br \/>  <br \/>  During this morning&#8217;s protest, activist Rawand Issa was caught on tape struggling to keep her tomatoes\u2019 from a female police officer who can be seen trying to wrangle the bag from Issa&#8217;s hands. <br \/>  <br \/>  Rawand is heard throughout the video saying: \u201cWhere is your conscience?\u201d She then adds: \u201cWhy don\u2019t you want me to say that to you? Aren&#8217;t you the one who\u2019s trying to rip these away from me?\u201d <br \/>  <br \/>  The activist concludes, \u201cShame on you by the way,&#8221; as a voice in the background can be heard asking the police agent not to respond.<br \/>  <br \/>  Several politicians have expressed their resentment at the so-called Tomato Revolution. Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun was quoted saying in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annahar.com\/article\/45985-%D8%B9%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%84%D9%82%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A:-%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%A9-%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Al-Jadeed TV<\/a> on Sunday: Why would I go to the parliament meeting? To get a couple of tomatoes thrown at me?\u201d  <br \/>  <br \/>  Kataeb bloc MP Elie Marouni also offered up this query to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebanonfiles.com\/news\/567258\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">LBC <\/a> during an interview on Monday: &#8220;Does throwing tomatoes and stepping on pictures show the real image that civil society is giving to Lebanese? They should give the tomatoes a break.&#8221;<br \/>  <br \/>  And as for journalist May Chidiac, who was running for parliamentary elections until they were postponed, her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/May-Chidiac\/21499453392?fref=ts\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> status on Sunday offers this opposition to the Tomato Revolution:  &#8220;What does the tomatoes\u2019 revolution mean? If they protested with class I wouldn&#8217;t say anything, but throwing tomatoes at cars is a sign of class? Hell no!!! Go give those tomatoes to poor families and Syrian refugees. It is only then that we will believe that you have noble goals!!!\u201d","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tomato Revolution (Thawrat Al Banadoora) was formed by civil society activists last month in protest over Parliament&#8217;s decision to extend its own term for another 17 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[341],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-26225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-rebelslikeus"],"authorship":[170],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Tomato Revolution is Pissing Off Politicians and Police<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Tomato 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