سليمان زار ونظيره الفنلندي اليونيفيل: لا سلاح ممنوعا عن الجيش

If I was the president, I wouldn't be able to meet this Niinisto.
Finland was totally destroyed during WW2, had to pay reparations to Moscow. Now look at their country and economy...

@cigar
Not sure I quite understand the process of being suspended on Naharnet. Why and how are the above named involved in his suspension? I thought this is an open forum of discussion available to all to precisely for each to communicate his/her opinion/point of view on some topics.....
Suspending someone for his/her point of view makes this site totally irrelevant

cigar, they're suspended coz Naharnet is managed by saudis, chechens and qataris. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

btw u forgot me in ur list.

@cigar
Thank you for your reply. I am indeed saddened to see that censorship is applied here. I guess we are losing our country and losing our freedom of expression is integral Alas. I do recall Flamethrower. Admittedly I did not share his views but he did make sense sometimes. Nevertheless he certainly has the right to express himself freely here regardless what I or any one else agrees with him or not.

prove I'm a nusra boy or shut up...

Thank you cigar
let's see how long you and I will last here before possibly gwtting suspended...lol

*getting sorry

“There are no banned arms” >> we'll see once the weapons are delivered, if there are surface to air missiles that can protect us against israeli war planes.

keep it up cigar, dont listen to the nusra barkers.

LAF don't need HA support.
One must be lebanese to believe that a resistance made only of pro-khamenei shias is a resistance for lebanon.
What part of it dont u understand ?
HizbIran is a resistance to the project called LEBANON.
HizbIran= NO LEBANON.

Rwanda had a tutsi militia, israeli has a jewish one, HA a khomeynist one, etc.. u know what i mean ?
A lebanese militia will defend lebanese interests, values and society.
A khomeynist militia will ONLY defend interests of Khamenei and Bashar...

tex again with pointless platitudes and a profound lack of cause-effect reasoning lol.

(1). Mr. President, with all my respects and affection, this defense strategy is an idea that fewer and fewer people these days are willing to accept. First, we are not at war with Israel, remember, we still have an Armistice. Now let's be perfectly honest, why keep hiding behind our little finger, had it been Israel and us alone, there would be no war, literally none. But you see, you know Sir as we all know, that we Lebanese are always divided, between those who truly want peace and build a strong and vibrant nation of laws and strong constitutional institutions and most unfortunately those who are always running after one Pan-Arab ideology or the other, or Pan-Iran and God knows what more. Decades ago, we signed the Cairo Treaty, that allowed our ungrateful guests to stage their war on Israel from our country.

(2). Sir who was it that signed that loatheful treaty, not us all, Christians and Muslims? Henceforth, didn't we go from one conflict after the other, all because of the PLO, the Syrians who backed them, and God knows what other Arab and East-Bloc countries who had a proxy war against the West hence and so forth? Didn't they all want to keep that dirty war on Lebanese soil? Then in 1982, wasn't the PLO and all the terrorist gangs booted out of Lebanon? Who replaced them Sir, isn't it that same militia (calling itself Resistance) that today is trying every single attempt to derail your noble efforts? With the PLO it was a straightforward business, go out or else. But with our so-called resistance Hezbollah, it's a lot more dangerous to say the least.

it's as if anonymetexasusa has never read a single comment of bani's. damn, how can one be so one-sided?

(3). Mr. President, I am one who doesn't believe in that equation called whatever state/resistance, we don't need that resistance, we all believed it was a real one, but where has it gone to today but Syria and every country where it shouldn't be? We have a good army, a great one, an army that is noble, well trained and has great dignity, but this army cannot and will not operate so long as everyone wants to tell it how to operate and where and where not it can operate. You Sir have done a great job at keep the army intact, this despite all the stratagems every Tom, Dick and Harry has tried. Now diplomacy has an end road, our repeated attempts to accommodate the Resistance have now reached a dead end.

(4). Sir, you remember just how many years we tried to find a compromise with Hezbollah, how many formulas we tried, didn't we all know that we were wasting our time? Sir, added to our Armistice with Israel, we also have now a UN sponsored ceasefire, so why continue this equation? The only way forward for Lebanon is pretty simple, let Hezbollah sit with us in one table, let us discuss with it the period in which it will gradually surrender its weapons to the state and integrate its men in the LAF, then henceforth continue purely as a political party and nothing else. I will call this as the noble and logical exit strategy for Hezbollah and us all. Look at Spain's ETA, and Ireland's IRA, it took years, but it also took determined governments to bring them to reason.

(5). Why can't we do the same, all the time remaining firm? Most Lebanese mean or wish NO harm to Hezbollah, despite all their sabotage of the nation, most Lebanese will forgive them, provided they come to reason and accept that they cannot dictate their Lebanese siblings. Lebanon is gradually sinking, sinking into a sea of mud, the more we keep wiggling like this, the more we sink. Hezbollah is causing us all to lose sight of our direction, most of us want peace, prosperity, to live and work in this beautiful country of ours, we are fed up with going to the Diaspora, all we want is to live here, side by side, respecting, supporting and trusting each other, all sects, all parties, but also as equals under the same and one law.

(6). Israel is not attacking us, except when we provoke it, so why the resistance anyways, now it belongs to Syria, then God knows what whom else? Resistance and state cannot and do not live together, that stage is now well past us, all we want is the state, the state and the state, pure and simple. We want to live in a state where the state's will is NOT challenged by anyone, we want a state where our laws are respected and upheld, where there's no corruption, where the honest is not seen as gullible, and where crooks have only one address to go, jail. Sir, you have most of the people behind you, don't compromise anymore. No more equation, just the state Sir, nothing else.

Funny to read comments about Finland. Yes, my homecountry stayed independent after WWrs and still going strong. One of wealthiest in EU.

full disclosure- HA can't possibly hand in their weapons for their own safety. now that they are implicated in bombings and murders, how can they possibly protect themselves without their weapons?

anonymetexasusa

Your scare tactics, assuming Israel will do this & that will not & does not work. No very convincing at all. Don't you agree?

Again has Israel attacked Egypt or Jordan. Their peace treaties were a success.

Did not Israel hand back sinnai to Egypt?

The reason why Israel is holding onto strategic lands is for defensive purposes, once it knows that the neighbour will not show any aggression it will sign a peace treaty.

Sticking by the President undivided is the only solution.

When did Lebanon ever be a positive spotlight? Other than division & warfare.

This is a great opportunity for Lebanon to aim for peace.

Now stick by your leader.... I MEAN THE PRESIDENT no one else.

Army will receive all types of weapons 3al wa3d ya kammoun! We're talking about video games here.

WOW just what I was looking for. Came here by searching for grow taller