Qatar FM Accuses Hizbullah of Killing, Displacing Syrians
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah lashed out at Hizbullah on Thursday, stressing that the Gulf state is in a rift with the party.
“Hizbullah went back to the Syrians who welcomed it (in July 2006 war with Israel) to kill and displace them,” al-Attiyah said in an interview with the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.
The Foreign Minister ruled out any aid offered by Qatar to Hizbullah, saying: “We disagree with the party.”
Al-Attiyah pointed out that Hizbullah was a “party of resistance until it changed its direction and headed to Syria.”
“We were surprised that Hizbullah (supported the regime of President Bashar Assad) at the beginning of the Syrian revolution and rewarded those who welcomed it with slaughtering and displacing them,” he added.
“This is the core of our differences,” al-Attiyah stressed.
In July, the Gulf Cooperation Council — which includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE — has said the bloc would crack down on Hizbullah members as part of a joint effort to limit the group's "financial and business transactions."
In September, undersecretaries of the GCC's interior ministries discussed possible measures against suspected Hizbullah members living in the Gulf.
The GCC's measures come in response to Hizbullah's intervention in the Syrian war alongside Assad's forces. The majority of Gulf countries back the rebels who are trying to topple the Syrian leader.
There are more than half a million Lebanese working in the Gulf states, including tens of thousands in Saudi Arabia. Many are Shiites.
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19 February 2015, 09:23
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Then start by deporting all Hizbollah sympathizers who live and work in Qatar. You guys in the GCC criticize and lash out but never seem to take any measure to counter Hizbollah's actions or pressure its leadership.
19 February 2015, 10:32
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@waleed121
and we all know who funds Hezbolshaitan... they are the isis of Lebanon...
19 February 2015, 11:39
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Qatar can go to a certain dark hot place below where they belong, yes the Syrian Government and it's people supported the Resistance in 2006, it was not the foreign backed takfiris Nusra/ISIS that Qatar and Saudi are backing.
19 February 2015, 12:34
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No no well said iceman_normajean...everyone appreciates the non stop efforts you exhaust to reply to each & every post all day, everyday.
Not to mention all the diff names & thobes you change in & out of all day long.
Iceman-normajean NUMBER 1 naharnet performer!
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19 February 2015, 15:18
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When did Hizb butcher people? October 1986, Makdassi Street, Hamra, near Baydoun supermarket (Hizb were headquartered nearby, in the Strand building): they blew a whole building down with persistent RPG bombardment because some AMAL people took position in there and were shooting at them; pretty sure there were civilians in there, since it wasn't AMAL's headquarters.
May 1996, Souq el Jammal Street, Shiah, behind the Mokhtar building: A man who had previously criticized Hizb over the previous month's war was found decapitated.
That's just two events that happened under my window. Memory is stronger than your propaganda.
19 February 2015, 15:32
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Criticism of Hizb does not mean support for Daesh. Just because one says that Hizb are a phlegm on the face of God and a cancerous, foreign entity that has overwhelmingly contributed to Lebanon's present woes does not mean that Daesh are any less of a helter-skelter apocalyptic death cult who are trying all they can to start a World War 3 centred around Dabiq.
If, like me, you were staunchly against the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, did that automatically make you into an al-Qaeda operative?
19 February 2015, 15:52
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Mr. FM, you may be in profound disagreement with Hezbollah, but truth is: Is it alone in Syria? What about your country dear Mr. FM, has it not, yes or no financed IS there, in Iraq and other countries? What about the multitudes of foreigners that come from all the globe to fight in Syria, haven't you noticed them sir? Do these Non-Syrians have any business in Syria other than lured by extremist doctrines of sheer hatred as promoted and financed by your little desert kingdom? Mr. FM, would you honestly deny that your being a Sunni might have at one stage or the other harbored some inner feelings of a Sunni victory in the Levant? Sure, me too I am fiercely opposed to Hezbollah's involvement in Syria or anywhere else, even here in Lebanon I wish to see it disarmed, but right now you and your likes are heavily tainted with hypocrisy. Either you put your finger on the gaping wound or try harder next time.
19 February 2015, 20:06
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now I know why I dropped winston's and switched to Marlboro.
19 February 2015, 20:38
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southern go blow up your house the one destroyed by Nasrallah's laou kountou a3lam and the one Qatar rebuilt for you, thank you.
20 February 2015, 04:18
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The same Syrians who fired rockets at Lebanon before Hezbollah entered Syria?
20 February 2015, 10:38
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http://www.thesyriannetwork.net/2015/02/19/10155396193030730/
