MP Gemayel Urges Salam to Work for Vote Law, Protect Lebanon against Security Meltdown
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Phalange MP Sami Gemayel urged Premier-designate Tammam Salam on Sunday to push for an agreement on an electoral draft-law, protect Lebanon's security and rebuild trust in Lebanon.
Salam should work on agreeing on an electoral draft-law that receives the backing of all the Lebanese, protect Lebanon from security deterioration locally and on its borders and work on rebuilding international trust in Lebanon, Gemayel said at his party's executive forum held at the Forum de Beyrouth.
The lawmaker wished Salam luck in forming the new cabinet “to salvage Lebanon at this difficult stage.”
Gemayel said Salam believes there is no partnership in Lebanon without all of the Lebanese.
The lawmaker promised his party members a revolution against the political performance of officials which he said was based on lies.
Turning to Hizbullah, he asked: “Is Hizbullah happy by seeing the proliferation of arms and the spread of extremism?”
Gemayel blamed the party's insistence not to deliver its arms to the state for the spread of weapons in Lebanese towns and cities.
“We want the state to revolt to preserve its security on its border. What is the role of the army? Where is the dignity of the official who sees border villages coming under fire?,” he wondered.
Mortars and shells from the Syrian side regularly crash in Lebanon, causing several casualties, though Lebanese security forces and the army have never fired back.
Gemayel also called for a revolution against the policies of axes. “It's been 40 years that we are paying the price of their wars,” he said.
“It's time for us to take a break to build our economy and politics,” said Gemayel, who also called for keeping Lebanon neutral.
“We no longer want to pay the price of the region's crises,” he stressed.
He asked Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah whether the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was worth dying for.
Hizbullah, a staunch supporter of Assad, has in recent months buried a number of fighters killed in Syria, without publicly disclosing how the men were killed, or where.
07 April 2013, 17:14
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In lebanon, the son of a feudal sheikh is a sheikh. You dont need to deserve it.
Also if you speak out in a mosq and incite hatred against non sunnis, you are also called a sheikh.
I prefer the first kind. And especially Sheikh Sami.
07 April 2013, 16:36
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this is not something hizbushaitan likes to hear.
and now FT and mowaeten will come up and say: this is not true, the majority of Lebanese is with hizbushaitan :)
07 April 2013, 17:01
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Sami, perhaps you should fix your relations with your cousin first, before trying to fix Lebanon.
Allah, al Watan, al 3ayleh.
08 April 2013, 06:31
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The good news here is that Lebanon got a PM Designate quickly and almost by total consensus. With any luck, he will put a government together, and the parties are working toward agreeing on a new election law that will produce a more representative Parliament, even if there is a delay in Parliamentary elections.
Look to Syria, see the price that Syrians are paying for having tolerated a dictatorship. Look to Egypt and see the price that they are paying for the Stability they thought they had. Look to Israel even, their system is not as functional and as stable as Lebanon's to undergo a change of government and elections in such an environment.
Lebanon is not perfect, but somehow it works and is light years ahead of its neighbors.
08 April 2013, 06:38
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The dark side is that Lebanon still labors under the drag imposed on the state, the government and the people imposed by the presence of an armed Hezbollah. But for now, Hezbollah has lost it's raison d être of resisting Israel. Now it has been a counter force to Arab Sunni Muslims, in the current environment created by the Syrian War and the Assad response to the opposition. As a Persian anti Arab organization, it's position within Lebanon's political is precarious, to say the least. In the continual battle between the Lebanese Government and HA, the Government has the upper hand for now, and should make the most of it to gain permanent ground against Hezbollah.
