March 14 Attends National Dialogue Armed with Request to Discuss Hizbullah Arsenal
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
March 14 opposition sources expected the country’s top leaders to “buy time” during a national dialogue session on Monday as the coalition seeks to integrate Hizbullah’s arms into the Lebanese army.
The sources told An Nahar daily that the leaders who met at Baabda palace under President Michel Suleiman are not expected to achieve tangible results.
However, they said, the top officials will agree to “buying time” pending the collapse of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad that is allied with Hizbullah or its change to democracy.
While Hizbullah says it is out of the question to discuss the possibility of handing its arms to state authorities, sources close to al-Mustaqbal bloc leader Fouad Saniora said the March 14 forces headed to Monday’s national dialogue adamant to discussing the integration of the arsenal with the army.
The opposition leaders will also stress during Monday’s session the activation of the Baabda Declaration made during the first round of all-party talks on June 11, the sources told As Safir.
During that session, the bickering leaders agreed on the need to control the Lebanese-Syrian border following a series of deadly incidents and rejected the formation of a buffer zone between the two countries.
The March 8 majority and March 14 opposition officials also agreed to back the Lebanese army as the guarantor of national unity. They further struck a deal to keep Lebanon away from the policy of regional and international conflicts.
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, who is a major component of the dialogue, told As Safir that the all-party talks should be productive and criticized March 14 for exaggerating in its demands.
Both sides should reach common points, Jumblat, who is a centrist, said.
Hizbullah parliamentary bloc leader MP Mohammed Raad stressed that the party is open to any objective discussion on the defense strategy that should protect Lebanon and consolidate its sovereignty against the Israeli attacks.
But Hizbullah rejected the opposition’s demand to surrender its arms.
“We will not engage in dialogue on the resistance’s arms,” said Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah.
“These arms are part of a national equation that includes the army, the people and the resistance,” he added.
25 June 2012, 09:08
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if hizbushaitan refuse to discuss handing over their arsenal to the army, then what is the purpose of this dialogue?
we do not agree to legitimize the arsenal of hizbushaitan as was the arsenal of the palestinians in the past.
if the result is going to be war then so be it.
25 June 2012, 09:48
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War is on the table and hell with the falling regimes and their friends
25 June 2012, 15:49
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Like any war game, somebody has to play the role of the Israeli camp. And who is better at it than the insane lunatics of Al Mustaqbal al Manhoub and their yes-sir otherwise unemployed Christian Sunnis of March 14?
25 June 2012, 15:52
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March14 needs to request something other than disarming Hezbollah which is forcing Israel to take 10x the decisions to assault Lebanon, if assaulting is still the case among Israelis.
Show us what else March14 can do for the country?! Offer something that helps people.... Go on...suggest?
25 June 2012, 16:10
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March 14 Attends National Dialogue Armed with Request to Discuss Hizbullah Arsenal..
Hizbullah Attends National Dialogue Armed with Actual Arms Which they will Use to Kill Anyone who Wishes to Discuss their Iranian Arsenal.
March 14 Would be Better of Sending Someone to Iran where it would be more Appropriate to Discuss Hizbullah Arsenal.
25 June 2012, 16:16
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Lets get the country on 1 foot at least before we talk about the weapons,so we have something to fall back on.rellax ya lebnenieh. because after you will be saying "yah ratt"
25 June 2012, 17:30
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Those arms should be under the operational command of the Lebanese army, pure and simple. Contrary to the disinformation being disseminated by some fool no one is calling for disarming Hezbollah only to have the decision of when to use those arms and when go to war be made in Lebanon by Lebanese elected officials rather than by an unelected turbaned sectarian Iranian puppet literally taking his marching order from a Shah wannabe. Having sectarian foreign owned, locally operated weapons take us back to the "good ole times" of Fathehland and the PLO running amok in south Lebanon and elsewhere deciding from Beirut where and when to attack Israeli targets cheered on and aided by an assortment of leftists, Syria firsters, Arab nationalist and Lebanese Muslims, all the Lebanese ultimately paid the price.
25 June 2012, 20:26
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Shove your equation where the sun dosen't shine, aka fatty's nest
26 June 2012, 05:50
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When they talk resistance arms, they talk about salaries from Iran. Who in the world would give up free money, ammunition and free electricity(state within a state)?
These guys do not want to integrate and work for the Army, they are getting freebies.
Make them a deal, if they are truly resistance against Israel, then give them an Army strategy to defend the nation(i.e. Anti-air Missiles) and confiscate the rest of weapons (medium to small) that will harm the internal security. If Israel invade the land then open the Army depot for them to get their Medium/Small weapons.
Now this is called a defense strategy but they won't agree to it because the master "Iran" won't be able to manipulate them and the master becomes the Leb Army.
