Nasrallah Expected to Snap Back at March 14 on Thursday
The major reaction to the March 14 forces’ call on Hizbullah to hand over its arms to the Lebanese army will likely come through the party’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, during a televised speech on Thursday.
During a gathering organized on Tuesday by the March 14 coalition in BIEL on ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 14, 2005 assassination anniversary, the main speakers slammed Hizbullah and its arms.
While former Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged the party to put its weapons at the disposal of the state, Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel asked: “Is it logical for us to back Arabs revolting against their regimes and accept that the Lebanese remain captive to the illegitimate arms?”
As for Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea, he called on Hizbullah not to be “mistaken in its calculations,” stressing that “there is no future for any illegitimate arms and no future for any mini-state.”
The Lebanese opposition also took the opportunity on Tuesday to announce its alliance with the Syrian National Council, which said in a letter read by the March 14 general secretariat coordinator, Fares Soaid, that the Syrian regime will ultimately collapse and Damascus will have the best of ties with Lebanon.
Nasrallah, who will give his speech on Thursday on the occasion of a ceremony in honor of the party’s martyrs, is expected to make a huge retort to the March 14 opposition officials.
High-ranking military sources told An Nahar daily on Wednesday that the March 14 coalition’s announcement of its alliance with the Syrian opposition was a major development that would have large-scale repercussions on the situation in Lebanon.
But the sources said it remains to be seen what kind of reactions the Hizbullah-led March 8 forces would have to the BIEL rally.
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