ارسلان: لا نقبل التعاطي مع الطائفة الدرزية في 8 آذار وكأنها على الهامش

your might not have realized it yet ya meer but you are a tool and hassin only needs your input when he asks for it otherwise sit and zip it! micho does it very effectively. so understand, as micho has, that the iranian supreme leader is your master as well although as non shiites you don't pass go or collect $200, that is you won't be getting the key to paradise, made of genuine iranian plastic, nor get any virgins unless you woo nabil nicola or ibrahim kanaan

Commenting on the exclusion of his party from the meeting held between Salam and a March 8 delegation, Arslan said: “We totally reject what happened and a number of sects are being marginalized in the March 8 coalition.”

lol welcome to hizbullah power sharing...

“I did not allow myself to interfere when a meeting was held in Bkirki between (Lebanese Forces leader) Samir Geagea, (Phalange Party leader) Amin Gemayel, (Marada Movement leader MP) Suleiman Franjieh and (Free Patriotic Movement leader MP) Michel Aoun,” Arslan went on to say.

lol how could he have interfered?

apparently, the man doesn't know what the term "taking the high road" means....

he's hurt, he's grouchy and he's no body

i suppose not all baathist dogs are treated equal -
nousralla comes in first , aoun in second ,,,and the rest of the pack

Arsalan made alota good points. But he just needs to realize that his actions, and that of wahab, are what's causing any schisms in the Druze community.

Shove your equation

This election law debate is about presenting who gets to designate the next PM, who controls the next government, and this whether or not Lebanon becomes a casualty of the Syrian War. The Orthodox Gathering with its proportional representation feature, will award Deputies to Aoun, even of his list loses in close elections in Metn, Kesrwan, and Zahle. With the extra FPM Deputies, M8, which is to say Hezbollah wins the election and gains control of the Government.
The 1960 plan, which was used in 2009, will allow Sunni voters to supplement M14 Christian lists and give M14 a majority, allowing it to designate the next PM and Government.

If Hezbollah wins the elections and controls the government expect more and open involvement of Hezbollah in the Syria War, particularly on the critical Homs/Hermel axis on which Hezbollah's resupply lifeline depends.
If Future wins, then expect that Hezbollah will go to war with the Lebanese people, army and resistance, if it can't find any other way to pursue its agenda in Syria.

Arslan is of course with Jumblatt in opposing the Orthodox Gathering Plan. If Druze voters can only be instrumental in electing only Druze Deputies, the whole community is marginalized. The Druze are smart enough to know the end game when they see it.

However, the same logic works with regard to the Christians. Under the current manifestation of the Taif Amendments to the Constitution, the Christian voters who make up 39-40% of the population have the right, nonetheless to elect 50% of the Deputies. This is more than one man-one vote. With Moslem voters having a say in the extra Christian Deputies that are elected, a de facto balance is struck, and the stability created by Taif can endure. The Christian overreach embodied in the Orthodox Gathering, undoes the de facto balance and can result in the Christians losing their 50% share in the Parliament.

Unfortunately, the current crop of Christian political leadership is blind to communal interest as they are mesmerized by their own individual stakes and interests. They lost the mantle of power in the 1970's by acting as though Lebanon was all theirs when their numbers had dropped to >50% and now this same group, making the same mistakes risk losing what little bit of power they have left.
The name of the game for minorities is SURVIVAL. The Druze survive because they play the game well and smart. The Christian political leadership needs to get over having lost the demographic war and learn the art of survival as a minority demographic group. The first lesion is coalition building with other groups to form a majority. The Orthodox Gathering plan would institutionalize the deconstruction of coalition building.

M14 Christian Parties + FPM makes the Christians full partners with the Sunni and Druze in a governing coalition. Aoun having gone his own way with Hezbollah, has made himself a weak second sister to the Shiite Parties, while weakening the Christian element in the M14 camp. Seeking his own personal agenda, Aoun has thus crippled the entire Christian political profile in Lebanon.
does he really think that if he gets more Deputies that he can control Hezbollah??? When tails wag dogs.