France and its president have been working harder than the Lebanese authorities following the devastating explosion and French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Beirut on Thursday morning and meet with Lebanese officials. Paris has already dispatched two planeloads of specialists, rescue workers and supplies on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Lebanese politicians have been touring the crime scene with their never-ending convoys, blaming their opponents on what happened and forming new useless committees. It's been almost…

There are no words to describe what happened today. I kept watching over and over again the massive explosion wondering if this really took place in Beirut and not elsewhere. The huge blast, apparently caused by ammonium nitrate that was stored in a warehouse at the port, destroyed most of Beirut and its suburbs and even felt in Cyprus. They are talking about tens of kills and thousands of injured so far, but everyone knows…