الراعي يحيي قداسا للبنانيين الذين فروا الى اسرائيل
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احيا البطريرك الماروني بشارة الراعي الاربعاء قداسا للبنانيين الذين فروا الى اسرائيل في اطار زيارته غير المسبوقة للاراضي المقدسة.
وتوافد مئات من المسيحيين اللبنانين الى كنيسة القديس بطرس في كفرناحوم الواقعة على ضفاف بحيرة طبرية شمال اسرائيل لحضور القداس.
وحمل بعض المشاركين اعلاما لبنانية بينما وضع علم لبناني كبير على مقربة من تمثال للقديس بطرس، ونصبت لافتات كبيرة كتب على احداها تحت صورة البطريرك "الراعي في بلاد المسيح".
والقى البطريرك الراعي عظة شدد فيها على نبذ الكراهية وقال "هذا النهار التقيت مهجرين دمرت بيوتهم امام اعينهم من دون اي سبب. وانتم هجرتم من بيوتكم كلها من اجل لعبة سياسية".
واشار الى ان "الحرية البشرية مقدسة واي انسان يعتدي على انسان اخر جسديا او روحيا مرفوض وعليكم ان تعطوا قيمة لحياتكم وكرامتكم اينما كنتم".
واضاف "نصلي من اجل السلام في هذه الارض وفي لبنان وفي سوريا وفي العراق وفي مصر وفي كل البلاد المتوترة".
وقال سليمان نخلة المتحدر من بلدة جزين والذي يقيم في كريات شمونة القريبة من الحدود مع لبنان لوكالة فرانس برس "جئت هنا لاصلي" مشيرا الى انه لا يتوقع الكثير من زيارة الراعي.
بينما اشار بولص نهرا من القليعة والذي يعيش في بلدة كرمئيل ان "البطريرك لن يقدم لنا اي شيء" موضحا انه سيفكر في العودة الى لبنان "حسب الظروف".
واعتبر فيكتور نادر وهو مسؤول سابق في الوحدات الخاصة في "جيش لبنان الجنوبي"، الميليشيا التي كانت متحالفة مع اسرائيل ابان احتلالها لجنوب لبنان، ان الزيارة "تعطينا احترامنا وترفع معنوياتنا".
ولكنه اكد ان "ليس للبطريرك اي علاقة بنا سوى العلاقة الدينية".
واضاف نادر الذي يقيم في مدينة نهاريا "نحن لا نريد العودة الى لبنان، نحن سعداء جدا هنا وابني يخدم في الجيش الاسرائيلي".
في المقابل، اوضح هنري يوسف مارون الغفري من بلدة علما الشعب "لم نرغب في ان نترك بلادنا او ارضنا والبطريرك يعلم ذلك".
وتابع "اسرائيل ليست بلدنا، لدينا بلدنا وحياتنا وانا اريد العودة الى لبنان"، لكنه تدارك ان "كثيرين في لبنان من الذين كانوا يقفون معنا تنكروا لنا الان".
وقال الاب مارون ابي نادر "ان العائلات اللبنانية وخصوصا الفتية الطالعة تتعرض للرجم، فهل ترجم بدون خطيئة؟".
وفر الاف اللبنانيين الذين كانوا في عداد ما عرف خلال الثمانينات والتسعينات ب"جيش لبنان الجنوبي" الذي تعامل مع اسرائيل وحارب الى جانبها في جنوب لبنان، الى الدولة العبرية بعد انسحاب جيشها.
وعاد قسم منهم لاحقا على مراحل، فخضعوا لمحاكمات سريعة وصدرت بحقهم احكام مخففة بموجب اتفاق سياسي غير معلن لحل مشكلتهم.
الا ان اكثر من 2500 لبناني لا يزالون في اسرائيل، غالبيتهم من المسيحيين.
وقالت جولي ابو عراج التي تعمل في مؤسسة معنية بشؤون اللبنانين في اسرائيل في مدينة نهاريا لوكالة فرانس برس "جئت الى هنا وعمري 14 عاما، ابي شهيد قتله حزب الله".
وبحسب ابو عراج فان اللبنانيين في اسرائيل "مظلومون، نحن كنا ضحية جغرافية تاريخية وفقدنا هوياتنا، ونحن بحاجة الى تعويضات معنوية قبل التعويضات المادية".
واوضحت انها وغيرها لا يعولون كثيرا على زيارة الراعي مضيفة "نحن ضحايا سياسة حكومتنا اللبنانية ودولتنا التي اهملتنا وفضلت الغرباء على ابنائها".
وكان قد حذر حزب الله من "التداعيات السلبية" لزيارة الراعي، وهي الاولى لبطريرك ماروني منذ قيام دولة اسرائيل.
21:30 ,2014 أيار 28
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"Many SLA veterans feel they have been abandoned by Israeli authorities in their adopted home".
So much for Israel being hospitable, LOL.
06:27 ,2014 أيار 29
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Karim,
In Israel, they are free to practice any occupation, unlike your apartheid treatment of Palestinians who can't own land , or practice 54 professions in Lebanon!!!
17:49 ,2014 أيار 29
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every country in the world limits certain professions and land ownership to its own citizens.
22:17 ,2014 أيار 28
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God bless the cardinal :)
he showed some balls wink wink
hell to the yes!!
22:43 ,2014 أيار 28
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Naharnet can you please put up some pics of Lebanese flags inside israel.
The one with the girl is cute, nd so is the big banner...
I like seeing Lebanese flags in Israel .. more pics?
22:45 ,2014 أيار 28
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ALSO can someone please tell me who his security bodyguards are? are they Lebanese or Israeli or Palestinian??? army /civilians???
Info would be good!
22:55 ,2014 أيار 28
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God bless this patriarch. He is the best in a long time to come for the Maronites and for Lebanon. National reconciliation calls for all those who wish to return, to return to Lebanon. The feared retributions never happened on the SLA militiamen and their families in 2000.
This trip was an excellent campaign on his part and one day the walls will be gone. Bravo Rai!
23:41 ,2014 أيار 28
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this is out of line. making a mass for those who are allied with the enemy of not only lebanon but its constitution 3eyb
04:55 ,2014 أيار 29
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abou,omar,
You are the enemy of Lebanon and they sought Israel's help from the likes of you. They had to fight jihadists from North Africa and as far as Chechen.
23:46 ,2014 أيار 28
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Rahi should bring them back, no reason they should be exiled, Lebanon full of traitors, sold to Iran and Syria. Why not to Israel ?
01:53 ,2014 أيار 29
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Good thing if he has the power to choose his own hat let alone bring back war criminals to lebanon. May Allah swt never make these criminals set foot in lebanon ever again except to humiliate them more than they already have been humiliated.
23:54 ,2014 أيار 28
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cedre? are you telling me that since lebanon is sold to syria and iran it should be as well to Israel instead of working together and eliminating this solderie?
23:56 ,2014 أيار 28
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Shut ub ur mouse , these people are more Lebanese than ur Iranian made miliia
01:21 ,2014 أيار 29
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If the SLA are your heroes, you should move to Israel. You can be against Hezballah, the Syrian regime, the Iranian regime, etc, (as I am) without supporting traitors like the SLA.
01:48 ,2014 أيار 29
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Batrak is feeling important these days meeting with war criminals kamen. Good thing he has a nice hat at least.
05:56 ,2014 أيار 29
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Abdullah, are you jealous that they are more civilized than your group who make their women wear headscarves and are an embarassment to the Lebanese? If not for the atrak and his people, Lebanon would have been backwards like Syria, Yemen and Jordan and your Islamic friends in Iran--
01:50 ,2014 أيار 29
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May Allah make you stand next to them on the day of judgement since you love these rapists and torturers so much.
12:21 ,2014 أيار 29
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I support Hezbollah(as an armed resistance group not as a political party) but at the same time, i don't think the way the things were wrapped up to stop the war in Lebanon was fair. Hezbollah and other parties worked with the Syrian and Palestinian occupation who killed more Lebanese than Israel and affected Lebanon more negatively than Israel. Those people should be given pardon so Lebanon fixes another issue and proceed to definitively close the war period.
11:55 ,2014 أيار 31
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A bunch of traitors and collaborators who slaughtered the lebanese people, who terrorized them in countless prisons like khiam, and who helped the israeli enemi occupy our land should never be allowed to smell the scent of our country. We have paid in blood to free lebanon, paid with our lives so that the next generations can live their heads up high. We will never allow someone who sold our land to the zionists back amongst us. And yes, face it. Israel is the archenemy for at least 90% of lebanese, so you either face it or go find yourself another nation to call home
13:10 ,2014 حزيران 03
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Same goes for the PLO and Syria but not only they are still in our lands, but they nag that we mistreat them, despite torturing us for years.
18:09 ,2014 حزيران 03
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No the same does not go for the syrian and the palestinians. We have countless things in common with fellow arab citizens, israel on the other hand is a cancerous colony of european settlers. So also face that fact, we're arab, israel is not the same as the syrians and the palestinians. That's a fact of post 1990 lebanon, and you either face it or face it because you can do nothing to change this anymore
13:34 ,2014 حزيران 04
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The same goes for them whether you like it or not, they were occupier, killed,tortured and imprisoned thousands of Lebanese. Actually i don't need to do anything to change it, it is changing by itself.
Palestinians and Syrians were occupiers, anyone who stood with them in the war is a traitor more than the ones who stood with the Israeli as the latter came as a reaction to the first.
16:49 ,2014 حزيران 04
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Well read your constitution. It says israel is an enemy, and it mentions our arab neighbors as "brothers". I do not blame u and understand your frustration, because the days when the lebanese far right had a significant say in lebanese politics and could affect how we lebanese identify and define ourselves are long over. This is not 1975 anymore, this is not 1982. And just for the sake of respecting the lebanese's memory and intelligence please remember who invited the syrians into lebanon in 1976 and why. The syrian government comitted atrocities in lebanon, yes. But it is a reflection of our arab identity that syria and the palestinians cannot be enemies, and it is a reflection of lebanon's national arab stance that israel is an enemy. Tht's lebanon, take it or leave it
17:58 ,2014 حزيران 05
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Where have i said that Israel isn't an enemy. I'm just saying that if a group of Lebanese who collaborated with a state that was slaughtering Lebanese are traitors then all of them are, including Hezbollah. In my opinion, Hezbollah were heroes, they collaborated with Syria because they had to, just like how Bashir collaborated with Israel,because he had to. The SLA became traitors once they kept fighting after the PLO occupation left, before that ,they had every right to fight the Palestinian occupiers. All i'm saying, if we want to close the Lebanese war thingy, we should be fair, and those people should be given pardon.
17:59 ,2014 حزيران 05
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" the days when the lebanese far right had a significant" Are you living in a leftist micro spot of Lebanon? Have you seen all the youth's belief about the Lebanese identity? Most of them reject that Arab identity BS.
"Who invited the Syrians" Well if you're alluding that I'm a Christian, I'm not, and they invited Syria to help the Lebanese authority, but the traitor Assad became an occupier just like the Israelis and did more awful stuff than Israel.
Arab states cannot be enemies ? lol.
For me, Syria, Israel, PLO are all as bad as each other. The problem is that Lebanese feel only with the pain of their community, not the country in general. Oh and btw, i've already "took" Lebanon, but i won't stay silent about unfairness and the shitty state that Lebanon has been drowning in ever since those Arabists got some power, and sacrificed Lebanon for the cause/hypocrisy of other countries.
02:09 ,2014 حزيران 07
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It happens that the picture in which you would like to see lebanon is long dead and burried, good luck in not "staying silent". Don't listen to me, just read your constitution. Israel is an enemy and NOTHING makes it ok to collaborate with them. And surprise half of your country is made of syrians and palestinians (a lot of whom are loyal to the syrian gov and the plo respectively), mayb if u got out of your ghetto you would consider fighting these "enemies and occupiers". If you would get out of your ghetto (plus read your constitution) you would probably realize that the days when there was a question around lebanon's identity are long over. And well good luck with your "youth who believe were not arab" coz well hate to break it 2u but you guys couldn't change anything beyond the first few months of 2005 9 yrs ago.. Well mayb you need another 9 years, just to realize u got urself a beating..again
02:29 ,2014 حزيران 07
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And we'll have to define "lebanese authorities" that the syrians were invited to help. Last time I checked it was the "lebanese front" al jabha al lubnaniyya tht the syrians came 2 help. And well unless they recently changed history these were not the lebanese authorities. And then u know, when u coordially invite a foreign power 2 enter ur country, they usually (usually) tend 2 stick around for some time. So its either the lebanese right was utterly stupid at that time 2 invite syria and expect assad to pack his stuff and go asap, or its that the remnents of the lebanese right today are a bunch of hippocrits in building a case around a fatal mistake they themselves committed
14:32 ,2014 حزيران 08
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I think this argument will be endless so this is the last reply.
I didn't say Israel was not an enemy, I, not being a sectarian under disguise, do feel with the pain of Lebanese whether in the North.in the south or wherever not unlike some who have selective memories and only feel with their group of people. My point is, if you want to punish those who worked with occupiers who killed,tortured,imprisoned thousands of Lebanese, than do it regardless if they worked with Israelis, Syrians or Palestinians regardless if they are NOW enemies or not.
