Gemayel Says Hizbullah 'Gambling with Lebanon's Fate,' Urges Suleiman, Cabinet to Assume Responsibilities
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Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel accused Hizbullah on Monday of “gambling with the Lebanese people's fate,” urging President Michel Suleiman and the cabinet to “assume their responsibilities.”
“(Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hasan) Nasrallah has transformed Lebanon into a battlefield instead of a democratic country,” Gemayel said after the political bureau's weekly meeting.
“Hizbullah is bringing the war in Syria to Lebanon.”
Gemayel explained: “The party is imposing a fait accompli on the state because of its possession of arms and no one can hold it accountable except in a civil war. And we do not want this option.”
"How can he (Nasrallah) control the fate of all the Lebanese?”
The Phalange MP said that “Hizbullah's cabinet” controls the country.
“As a Lebanese, I have no authority to hold the party accountable. And we are not held responsible because we are part of the opposition.”
Gemayel slammed the current situation as “unacceptable”: “The Lebanese people are no longer able to bear this.”
“Daily essential matters have become secondary amid the current security fears,” he noted.
Gemayel urged President Suleiman “to stop the collapse of the state,” demanding more powers to be given to the president.
"We also urge the executive authority to assume its responsibilities because it is the power in charge of controlling the border, preserving the Baabda Declaration and taking control of the security situation.”
Gemayel stated that the executive authority must admit “its failure and to announce Lebanon a failed state.”
“During the war we did not lose hope but today Lebanon has become a hopeless state,” he expressed.
He called on Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam to form the cabinet “as soon as possible because vacuum does not serve the country.”
Gemayel remarked, however, that “some factions do not want a state,” explaining that their goal is for all the country's institutions to collapse.”
Regarding Foreign Minister Adnan Mansours's stances towards Syria's conflict and Hizbullah's ivolvement in it, Gemayel lamented that he (Mansour) is acting based on "his affiliation with a party and with his sect."
17 June 2013, 18:13
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The government is illegitimate (m8)
The parliament is illegitimate (m8-14)
The president is legitimate. Do Wat it takes to restore law and order.
17 June 2013, 19:50
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next minute, gemyals family chopped up & sexually assaulted by shia shabiha
17 June 2013, 20:14
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Undoubtably it would happen. The Syrian/Farsi have decimated half that poor family.
17 June 2013, 18:50
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Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Gemayel and others..... You can speak and lecture till dooms day but HA will do what it wants, where it wants, and when it wants. Live with it or arm the rest of the lebanese and let's have a go at it.
17 June 2013, 21:00
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you still awake in australia:? must be early in the morning for you....hmmmmm almost 4 in the morning? you must be on same time zone as your double FT:))))
18 June 2013, 08:28
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1-@roar , not everyone is armed in the same way and no one on the lebanese scene is as well equipped with so much foreign financial and military backing as hezballa and that is the biggest problem and that is why hezballa dont care anymore about the other side's opinion or approval to do whatever they want in or outside lebanon.
2- the other side of your "everyone" has two approaches to deal with hezballa:
18 June 2013, 08:29
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a- the ghandi style of non violent approach to politics and that is what they have been doing all along advocating democratic peaceful means of protests against self imposed hezballa's hegemony thanks to their "godly" weapons used cleverly, i might say, to intimidate and submit lebanese people.
b- arm themselves and find a suitable foreign nation(s) to balance the iranian and syrian regime involvement with hezballa and back them up in the same manner in order not to lead the way or attack anyone, as you say, but to defend themselves and have the courage to say NO to hezballa's unilateral actions and decisions and hopefully one day sit down and negotiate with them on equal basis and without FEAR what kind of future lies ahead for lebanon that is suitable for everyone.
18 June 2013, 08:30
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1-@roar , not everyone is armed in the same way and no one on the lebanese scene is as well equipped with so much foreign financial and military backing as hezballa and that is the biggest problem and that is why hezballa dont care anymore about the other side's opinion or approval to do whatever they want in or outside lebanon.
2- the other side of your "everyone" has two approaches to deal with hezballa:
17 June 2013, 22:17
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I would not say Hizbullah is gambling with Lebanon's Fate, it is more accurate to say Hizbullah cares nothing about Lebanon's fate. It's one and only concern is the fate of the Axis.
17 June 2013, 22:29
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Kudos cheikh Sami for following a third way. You are neither allied with Hezb Iran like GMA unfortunately is, you are not a sclerosed full time boycotter employee of hariri like the so called doctor. What you say makes sense....
