الفرزلي يلتقي الجميل موفداً من عون: القناعة زادت بأن الاورثوذكسي هو الخيار

Ferzle, the unreconstructed Assad-sympathizer is the father of this Orthodox Gathering Plan whose clear purpose is to confessionally polarize the Lebanese people and their government thus inducing a protracted comatose State. As Assad and Hezbollah wish. He is selling this under his slogan to stop "the ongoing assaults on the constitutional rights of Christians since 1991". Where in the constitution are rights parsed out according to confessional identification?

If he means that the 64 Christian deputies are not elected by 100% Christian Constituencies, first, it has never been the case that in Lebanon's confessional system, that only co-confessionalists vote for their confessional representatives. There has always been a mix. How does Aoun win in Jezzine without Hezbollah support for his candidates among the Shiites? How do LF candidates in Aley or Shouf win without Druze voters? It makes the politics and politicians interdependent one on the other so that consensus is possible.

Second, the insistence on only Christian voters voting for Christian deputies will eventually work against the Christians, not make them stronger. The Christians do not make up 50% of the electorate, yet, they are guaranteed 50% of the seats in a unicameral parliament. Should the Moslems one day say that this needs correcting, who is to stop them. Right now the 50% formula is guaranteed by one external party, namely the KSA at the insistence of Saad Hariri who keeps Taif as a tesiment to his father Rafiq Hariri who was the father of Taif.
How odd that Aoun, who detests Hariri would insist on his "rights" which were created and have endured because of Hariri.

The Taif Formula is not the best to guarantee Christian Rights, which are more and more seen as minority rights. A better system is to move to a bi-cameral legislative body where Majority Rights are reflected in in one chamber, and the Taif Formula preserved and manifested in the other where Minority Rights are preserved. Lebanon needs a Senate where minority rights can be protected, and the people of Lebanon, where ever the majority may lie, should be free to elect whomever they wish to the Chamber of Deputies.

Lebanon must be the rock against this wave of salafism n hatred, Christianity has always been the religion of forgiveness n loving our enemies...All what is happening around us from Egypt to Iraq n more will break on the rocks of Lebanon under the feet of our holly lady Harissa.