Miqati Hits Back at Mustaqbal MPs, Says 'Dousing Fire Ignited by Their Fiery Stances'
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Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Monday snapped back at Beirut’s MPs over their call for him to resign, noting that he is trying to “douse the fire ignited by some Mustaqbal Movement MPs through their fiery, irresponsible stances.”
“The call for the government’s resignation has become present in all the statements and remarks of the Mustaqbal MPs, which reflects a deep desire to regain what they consider an undisputable right,” Miqati’s office said in a statement.
Earlier on Monday, Beirut’s MPs held Miqati responsible for the fierce clashes that erupted in Beirut overnight Sunday, calling on him to resign because “his government is facilitating the return of civil war to Lebanon.”
The office stressed that “the same duty that obligated him to undertake the responsibility (of forming the government) compels him today to continue to shoulder his responsibilities and to seek to spare Lebanon the woes of the wrong political bets of some parties.”
Miqati also accused some Mustaqbal MPs of encouraging their supporters to take to streets and engage in armed clashes, “the last of which was what happened overnight in Beirut.”
He accused some MPs of distorting facts, saying they “have deliberately overlooked the stance declared by the premier against the letter of the Syrian envoy to the U.N.”
21 May 2012, 22:54
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those who want civil war to return are those with guns in the streets! be it M8 or M14...
a responsible gvt would do everything it can to take weapons away from people and parties and not protect the right to be armed with stupid excuses of resistance or whatever!
how can people not want to get armed when a party is allowed to be more armed than the army itself! you can t authorise one party to be armed and not the others....
and that is the vicious circle that irresponsible politicians defend!
21 May 2012, 23:39
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Peace...since independence political parties have been armed...decades before there was the resistance. If we have a "responsible government" in Lebanon and in the rest of the Arab world, then there would be no need for the resistance because the Apartheid ethnic cleansing colonialist settler Jewish NAZI state of Israel would not have existed.
22 May 2012, 20:26
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Peace, (I usually do not respond to stupid statements) what makes Israel happy is Arab puppets like you, M14, and Mubarek....The Israelis are still mourning over his removal.
22 May 2012, 20:33
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Peace, (I usually do not respond to stupid statements) what makes Israel happy is Arab puppets like you, M14, and Mubarek....The Israelis are still mourning over his removal.
21 May 2012, 23:02
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The Israeli lobby that runs US foreign policy and their Mustqbal Lebanese puppets are strengthening Sunni extremists in Lebanon to counter HA. Those idiots do not know that (sooner or later) they will be attacked by these Bin Ladenites.
22 May 2012, 17:05
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euh mowaten you d better not take burning tires as an example! hezb burnt hundreds of tires too, no?
22 May 2012, 00:40
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The thing is, Future MPs repeat the same thing everyday. I doesn't have the same effect any more. I think they should show their indignation in a different manner, let's say more innovative.
22 May 2012, 04:25
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M8 should wise up and disarm. M14 should wise up and refuse to arm. Persistence on restricting arms only to the Government is the only salvation for Lebanon. The wise and moderate people of Lebanon should unite and demand what is right.
22 May 2012, 06:38
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a clear message has been transmitted to this government yesterday:
- there is no more trust in the mikati government.
- lebanese banks are not abiding by the embargo on syria and the flaw of money to syria through some of them is what is allowing this regime to survive.
this is dangerous.
22 May 2012, 08:25
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the M14 are funnier then ever! they send their thugs into the streets, cuts off roads, kill people, smuggle weapons attack the Lebanese army and then they ask Mikati to resign!! anyway elections are less then a year away and the Lebanese People From Triopli to Mount LEbanon will tech them a lesson about terrorism and Salafia and 2ekhwan and....
22 May 2012, 14:40
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If Hizballa and co. continues to arm themselves and the Lebanese army keeps watching without doing a thing, then I hate to say it but a civil war is on the Horizon...The Sunnis of Lebanon are on the edge of declaring open war on hizballa...The idiots of M8 keep stoking the fire which will burn all of us again.
22 May 2012, 17:26
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whyaskwhy, I am not saying I want it to happen (god forbids) I am just sounding the alarm, that instead of re-assuring the Sunnis and the rest of Lebanon that their rights and dignities are protect, M8 keeps in provoking and humiliating the Sunnis and that cannot end well for our country.
22 May 2012, 17:29
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Separation of state and church, forbidding any political parties from receiving any foreign support and taking care of our economy and infrastructure are good first steps to protect our country.
