Salam Wants Cabinet Session to be Held before March 14 Rally
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Prime Minister Tammam Salam is eager to hold a cabinet session on Friday before a rally organized by the March 14 alliance in the afternoon to avoid a further crisis on the policy statement.
According to As Safir, Salam had expressed fears that the rally, which will be held in BIEL on the anniversary of the Cedar Revolution, would complicate the row on the resistance clause of the policy statement.
“Who can give us guarantees that March 14 would not further hold onto its conditions after the rally,” he was quoted as saying.
Salam fears that the alliance's leaders would attack the Hizbullah-led March 8 alliance in their speeches, and raise the political rhetoric and tension.
The March 8 camp wants to legitimize Hizbullah's arms in the resistance clause but March 14 is demanding that the resistance be put under the state's authority.
The row has led to the failure of a seven-member ministerial committee tasked with drafting the blueprint to complete its work.
The Constitution gives it until Monday or else the cabinet would be considered resigned and President Michel Suleiman would have to call for binding parliamentary consultations to name a new premier.
But Salam has threatened to resign to express his condemnation of the failure of the rival parties to strike a deal.
The Kuwaiti al-Qabas daily quoted Salam as saying that “the political parties had a historic responsibility” to resolve their dispute, warning of “accumulated dangers in the country.”
The cabinet held a marathon session on Thursday and will meet again on Friday. But it was not clear when the session will take place.
14 March 2014, 08:31
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The Hizb will not agree to abide by government decisions or put its militia under the command of the military. If m14 agrees to the resistance clause without the Hizb agreeing to the above, then they should pack up and leave. If they succumb I will only vote for LF candidates.
14 March 2014, 09:25
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Hizbollah is a curse on the Shia community before being a curse on Lebanon. Its support among the Shia is not much different than North Korean support to their despot leader; a mixture of ignorance, fear, indoctrination and imaginary victories. As North Koreans will surely one day wake up from its misery and depose their tyrant so will the Shia but the damage is already done and have reached the bones. Hizbollah is a criminal organization created by the Iranian Basij not much different from the Assad criminal regime. Their seemingly field victories are in fact time bombs that will isolate and impoverish their community for generations to come. With the help of the three musketeer useful idiots Aoun, Berri and Jumblat, they have imprisoned Shia and Lebanese in an Iron Curtain of hate and war where freedom and democracy never shine.
14 March 2014, 09:25
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Lebanon was once the region’s beacon of freedom and tolerance and the regional headquarter for all multinationals providing good jobs and high standard of living. Now we are a banana republic on the verge of bankruptcy afflicted with leprosy that no multinational would touch. Any formal risk analysis would show that the economic cost of Hizbollah is in the hundreds of billions. Hizbollah and Israel are two sides of the same coin spreading a culture of hate, war and destruction. Likewise, Takfiris are a Hizbollah creation and the product of the misery, extremism and foreign agenda of Hizbollah. Sadly, March 14 has failed in upholding the principles of the Cedar Revolution and resorted to sectarian speeches. It is time for Cedar Revolution II to save Lebanon from its current path to the abyss and restore in Lebanon the flame of freedom, democracy, justice and human rights, the bacon to rectify the path of what left of the Arab Spring!
14 March 2014, 08:44
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M14 officials know clearly this is the last straw: this trilogy is no more acceptable, and we reject being under Iranian invasion.
if ever m14 officials back down on this, then they will all be totally rejected by m14 base.
and as usual, now the personal insults and death wishes from mowaten, ft, and other m8 goons will start :)
what they do not know is that each time they do that, it means they have no valid reply to logical comments so they go personal, which makes me laugh :)
enjoy your day guys :)
14 March 2014, 09:07
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I agree with you: we need to be defended.
that is why we have a state and an army.
what we reject is the so-called resistance that is under the orders of iran while it should be under the orders of the Lebanese state.
I hope YOU see the difference.
and if you are Lebanese, then you should approve my comment.
14 March 2014, 08:51
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@Rafehh
Unfortunately the current balance of power is pretty much equal. In my opinion regardless who you want the country is paralyzed because our leaders are corrupt and look only for their personal interests instead of looking out for the Lebanese people who are in dire needs of the basics.. namely water, electricity, roads, medical care, jobs etc... you name it and what are they doing? bickering for a stupid statement..
Go figure
14 March 2014, 09:01
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Coolmec, long time no see, back to leb?...
I do agree with u, but in my opinion to adjust the gaps of our social and economic system stability is a must, since a part of our fellow lebanese can engage in wars (and pulling all the country with them) it will be hard to fix any issue (provided that there is a will to fix things) so we disagree on priorities i think...
I think that hezbollah just want a political cover from march 14 and that he is not reqddy to make any conscessions on his political and regional adgenda...
Anyway i might be wrong
Good to see u back anyway bro
14 March 2014, 09:10
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well said imagine.
may I add, that after so many years with m8 blacking or governing, we reached the current economic situation.
thus, if we want really to see change at the economical level, then we need to have change at how this country is run.
and I am not saying that m14 officials are that good too :)
so we need change, but change with a lot of Lebanese interest first.
14 March 2014, 09:30
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@imagine
Yes back in Beirut now will return to the US in about 40 days or so
you in Beirut?
14 March 2014, 17:46
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Mr. PM, well, to be honest, what is so wrong with the M14 position of now? Are they the only ones totally fed up with what is called the resistance?
