Gemayel: Lebanon's Salvation Can't Be Achieved without Complete Loyalty to Country
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel stated on Saturday that two armies cannot exist in one country because that would contradict the demands of sovereignty and the official armed forces, reported Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5).
He told the radio: “Lebanon's salvation cannot be achieved without complete loyalty to the nation.”
On this note, he praised President Michel Suleiman and former Premier Saad Hariri's speeches on Thursday and Friday respectively, saying that they laid the foundations for dialogue.
“Hariri's speech demonstrated that the Mustaqbal Movement is keen on respecting national principles and leading the country towards moderation that alone can save Lebanon,” remarked Gemayel.
“We hope that the alliance between the Phalange Party and Mustaqbal Movement would come to include other factions in the country, especially Shiites, because national interests cannot be met without all parties,” he stressed.
Commenting on Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech on Friday, Gemayel noted: “The concept of a resistance party alongside the army enforces the idea of two leaderships, sets of weapons, and 'Lebanons'.”
“A resistance alongside the army is contradictory and will create chaos,” he warned.
In a ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the army’s founding on Thursday, Suleiman criticized Hizbullah without naming it, saying it was time for the Lebanese state and the army to be the sole decision-makers on the use of the nation's capabilities
Hariri on Friday criticized Hizbullah's involvement in Syria, adding that the state and illegal weapons "cannot coexist."
03 August 2013, 13:49
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Nothing but the fundamentals to nation building, any other equation is a farse and reeks of conspiracy and external motives.
03 August 2013, 15:46
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I know minibash is listening, as always, and watching from behind his Ray Bans with his powerful arms crossed while Dr. Arreet 7akeh is arting his 7akeh in addition to arting everything that the Bash left behind. WHo knew, for example, that amn al moujtama3 al massi7i tole3 kello art 7akeh bi art 7akeh? I hope the Bash returns from Israel soon to straighten things up. Thank you for listening, minibash, SIR.
03 August 2013, 16:04
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Then they all are. The politician that never received instructions from a foreign country isn't born yet.
But some are evil, other aren't... Some receive money and weapons on a daily basis, other get money occasionally....
03 August 2013, 16:11
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ex-progma, every politician receives orders of interest from outside for funding. KSA/Iran/Qatar/US/France/etc. Nothing new really, but being politicians, they have to know how to wiggle around it is all -- that's what makes a class of good politicians (e.g. Israelis).
03 August 2013, 23:01
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Thank you for stating the obvious. Now back to the real world...
04 August 2013, 05:22
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He lost a son and brother for this country meanwhile you are still doubting his loyalty to this country and accusing him of corruption, at least he pays his electricity bill unlike your Dahyeh people, as the famous general says: show us the proof that he is corrupt? if he is in fact on the KSA payroll then you would have seen his party re-armed again.
04 August 2013, 09:15
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They will kill him now that he said something that actually make sense.
just like they killed those before him who were trying to free Lebanon from outsiders.
04 August 2013, 13:25
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... and also, since its establishment, did... well... umm... duh... the opposite? until they and the rest of the Christians ended up in a hole of you know what, minibash. Are you listening, minibash SIR?
