Maronite Bishops: Any Govt. Not Formed by Lebanese Powers is Aimed at Dividing Country
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Maronite Bishops Council lamented on Wednesday the Lebanese powers' failure to form a new government, criticizing their reliance on foreign powers and developments.
It said in a statement after its monthly meeting chaired by Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi: “Any government that is not strictly formed by Lebanese forced is aimed at dividing the country.”
The Lebanese factions should place Lebanese interests above all else and they should all abandon the preconditions they have placed on forming a cabinet, demanded the bishops.
In addition, they welcomed the security forces' deployment in Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahieh last week, saying that it helped in curbing the phenomenon of autonomous security in Lebanon.
Addressing the ongoing flow of Syrian refugees into Lebanon and their impact on Lebanon, it said: “A national stand is needed to tackle this issue.”
“We call on all Lebanese sides to remain neutral from the Syrian crisis and instead work for a political solution to the unrest,” it demanded.
“We welcome international efforts to steer Lebanon away from regional developments, especially the unrest in Syria,” it continued.
The bishops also hailed President Michel Suleiman's efforts to keep Lebanon away from the crisis in Syria.
The United Nations warned last week that Lebanon faces an explosion of social tensions unless the international community helps to handle hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.
While in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly last week, Suleiman told foreign ministers from the world's leading nations that his country faces an "existential crisis" because of the influx fleeing the war between President Bashar Assad and opposition rebels.
He told the International Support Group for Lebanon that major financing was needed to pay for the refugees, reinforce public services because of the burden and bolster the army.
The Syria conflict will cost Lebanon $7.5 billion from 2012 to 2014, according to an estimate given by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to the meeting held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
02 October 2013, 14:04
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God bless the Maronite bishops for dropping a hammer on the February 14 Saudi-Wahabi coalition and their Saudi terrorist sponsors.
Yes to freedom! Yes to democracy! Yes to sovereignty! No to Arabism! No to Wahabism! No to terrorism!
02 October 2013, 15:11
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thank you ya maronite bishops for denouncing the infiltration of filthy wahabis in our pluralist country. Thank you for denouncing the multiple of 12 camp for their strict sponsoring of KSA Qatari values from every single member.
The KSA is the most uncomplementary and most incompatible of any culture, tradition, values, beliefs, etc. for lebanon. Thank you w thank you ya bichops ya shourafa.
02 October 2013, 15:13
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ur corrupt peeps have taken refuge in countries we don't like. Taking REFUGE as in being welcomed and cared for and pampered, in countries that are ideological enemies to the Lebanese way of life. Says a lot about who's corrupt and to what extent.
02 October 2013, 15:35
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wherever you may need him, and whenever that may be, just look into a mirror and there he'll be looking back at thee.
02 October 2013, 15:42
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No §h!t. Whenever I look in the mirror, I see the devil. Now it all makes sense!!!!!
02 October 2013, 16:14
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thank you for speaking against our ideological enemies the sauds and their dangling parts in lebanon maronite patriarchs. You're doing your country a service oh noble men of the cloth. These wahabi sympathizers are our biggest threat in light of the pluralistic needs of lebanese society. They have no place in Lebanon and its future. People talk about hurrr iran etc. but they are nowhere as worse as the extremism at the core of the saudi ideology, hatred is at the very center of their vision, and the destruction of Lebanon in their dreams. Oh maronites who have been here before any of our current 14 'leaders' who do not understand what Lebanon needs, and cry and pounce when their trechary is foiled. Speak louder and be more confident. Moustalsaud must be kicked out with no return. We have 2 in asylum in enemy countries, may the rest follow insha allah.
