There probably isn’t - certainly not in the Middle East - a more shallow political culture than in Lebanon. Lebanese MPs - besides many of them being war criminals and terrorists from the civil war years - behave like vain college students consistently in competition with one another they way idiots compete over fashion items.

Members of the Lebanese parliament are known, for instance, to have attended auctions for “cool” [i.e. retarded] cell phone numbers were MPs bid even tens of thousands.

And now it has been relieved that MP Antoine Zahra holds a fake degree. Zahra claims a Diploma in Business Studies from the University of Harrington- United Kingdom. One problem: there is not such thing as the University of Harrington! This is a fake diploma that anyone can buy online. What a douch!

But such an embarrassment should be the least reason you hold Zahra in contempt. Zahra is an MP for the fascist, sectarian Christian Lebanese Forces, the same thugs who committed - with Israeli training, weapons and help - the Sabre and Chatila massacre.

And Zahra is not the only one. Lebanese MPs provide a lot of business for fake diploma companies. Here are some other members of the Lebanese parliament who have fake degrees, and there are others as well:

Abdunnur, Sharif Labeeb
Beshara, Selim Fouad
Daya, Mohammad
Deeb, Ajaj S. Al
Elcarte, Jenelyn
Fakhreddine, Abdallah
Ka’Wash, Hamad Nayef
Karali, Malek Farouk
Massaad, M Haikal Nicolas
Rayess, Nicole Chawkatly
Tamim, Fadi Z.
Yamout, Abdul Rahman Saadeddine
Yassin, Walid

Is this how the so-called Paris of the Middle East behaves?