Geagea to Hizbullah: No Future for Illegal Arms, Velayat-e faqih, Regional Axes
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Tuesday called on Hizbullah not to be “mistaken in its calculations,” stressing that “there is no future for any illegal arms and no future for any mini-state.”
Speaking at a rally held by the March 14 forces at the BIEL hall in Beirut to mark ex-PM Rafik Hariri’s seventh murder anniversary, Geagea said: “The moment of freedom, democracy and real statehood has come in the region, so do not be mistaken in your calculations.”
“You (Hizbullah) are our dear partners, so why are you insisting on isolating yourselves from the rest of the Lebanese. The future belongs to the State, the future belongs to a sovereign, free and independent Lebanon, not to (Iran’s doctrine of) Velayat-e faqih or any (regional) axis.”
Slamming the Hizbullah-led government in Lebanon, Geagea described it as “a wretched government witnessing wretched internal conflicts.”
“The wretched ministers are trying to cover their scandals with slogans, their slogans with lies and their lies with overbidding,” he charged.
“Every additional day in the life of this government deducts a year from the life of Lebanon and its freedom and economy. This government has been blundering around in all directions, but what’s required is one thing: stepping down,” Geagea added.
He stressed that the government “will leave with those (the Syrian regime) who are leaving.”
Addressing the ministers, Geagea said: “You have suffocated us with the smell of your deals and scandals, you have exhausted what’s left of our economy, you have paralyzed what’s left of our state.”
“The current Lebanese government is a bizarre government that is going against the natural democratic flow in the region and against Lebanon’s historical path. It is the government of clinical death and it is full of paralysis, darkness, corruption, squandering and blackmailing,” Geagea lamented.
He also criticized the government over its stance on the Syrian crisis.
“At the same time the officers and soldiers of the Syrian army themselves are refusing to heed the orders of their regime, some in this government and some of its administrations are rushing to meet the desires and orders of the regime, even if that required them to persecute the innocents, refugees, displaced and homeless who have fled the inferno of violence in Syria,” Geagea said.
I see an old epoch collapsing and a great Arab Spring approaching.
“Today's crimes against the innocent and against those who are struggling are being committed under the banner of serving the Resistance and the defiance, in the vein of what happened in Lebanon.”
Attacking both Syria and its Lebanese ally Hizbullah, Geagea said: “It is a resistance against peoples and against the rise of a true state in Lebanon, and defiance against the peoples' right to life. It is an occupation of our hopes and aspirations.”
He noted that a “democratic, free” new regime in Syria will be “the best support for Lebanon’s independence and a true chance to turn the black pages written by the current regime in the history of the two countries.”
“A democratic, free regime in Syria is a guarantee for real and serious ‘brotherhood, cooperation and coordination’ between the two countries. A democratic, free regime in Syria is a historical inevitability that is in the interest of Syria, Lebanon and all the countries in the region,” Geagea noted.
“Today, in your name (March 14 supporters), and in the name of a people that has been tortured, persecuted, prisoned and martyred, I call on the entire world, especially the countries in the region, to exert all efforts and do everything necessary to halt the bombardment, killing and bloodshed in Syria,” Geagea pleaded.
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