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I agree with James and FT's call for a fresh start without the above named politicians. The all have too much bagage to unify the Lebanese and allow this country to live up up to its potential.
I also second Bandout's call for you FT to apologize for the incredibly crass comments that you made about M14 people. These are Lebanese who love their country as much as you do and simply have a different vision than yours for Lebanon. We should try to reconcile and unite. It should not be Lebanese vs Lebanese. It is us united against the world.
Come on FT. Do the right thing.

@James, please tell me what criminal/illegal/dirty past Harriri has and provide supporting documents.

Aoun, Nasrallah and Geagea all have a criminal past but only one of them sat in prison for 11 years thinking about what he did.

whats u really know shit about lebanon and how things work here,,,

Why do you need shots to be fired when you're holding a loaded gun on someone who has nothing to fight you back with?

Besides you're being very optimistic about M8 outplaying M14.

What is M8's cause FlameThrower? Defend us from Israel? Bring economic prosperity? Bring sovereignty? Bring justice, security, and jobs?
We have all seen how M8 has failed at all of the above. Change and Reform, should be more like Change and Destruction, and Hezbollah is nothing other than IDF (Iranian Defence Forces or Israeli Defence Forces for that matter, when their interest meet every so often).

I won't tell you to wake up, because if at this point you are still convinced by M8 destructive cause your problem is not one of lightheadedness, but of despicable thinking that can only be cured with the help of a shrink.

I am all for a new fresh start, but let us be realistic here: our choices are limited to M8 and M14.

Lebneneh:
hizbushaitan and their allies created this situation accross the country through providing weapons to ali eid (jabal mohsen), jamaa islamia, chaker berjaoui and others, in order o reach this point where they call for a dialogue with their guns in hand and force a change in the political scene in their favor.
sitting on a dialogue table with them would be submission, which will not happen.
this is why: if they want a civil war, then they will have it, and if they want to disarm in favor of the state, then we all are with it too.

Mowaten. You state "the know hezbollah will not disarm". Please tell: why shouldn't Hezbollah turn its military wing to the Army so that latter becomes a defense force to recon with. Why does Hezbollah insist on:

1. Remaining above the state
2. Alienating a big section of the Lebanese society
3. Damaging the standing of the Lebanese state internationally.
4. Hurting the standing of the Shia in the Arab world.

Why, Mowaten? Please tell us.

@lebneneh: It is not that M14 is against dialogue per se. It is because while M8, especially HA, are pretending that they are innocent and dialogue lovers in reality they are maneuvering to rest control of the state for good under the guise of this purported dialogue. Past experience - think back to previous dialogue and the Doha agreement to name two instances - with M8 and HA shows that "niyyathoun" are not real and honest. That's for one reason.
For another, making a habit of "dialogue" external to state institutions will eventually lead to making them the rule not the exception and that is bad for the state of Lebanon.
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Third, while unconditional dialogue sounds good the fact is doing dialogue for the sake of dialogue is not only not good but dangerous. The risk of widening the schism that already exists is too great to ignore.
Finally, for any dialogue to be fruitful and beneficial some pre-agreed basis must be laid down for it and such basis has not yet coagulated between us. Tripoli incidents and the rest can and should be handled by the government and state institutions.

@mowaten teach us a lesson in leadership and tolerance by removing the thorn in our backs and the threat in our minds and hearts, which is the illegal weapons of your masters. Turn these weapons over to the legitimate authority of the Army and then let's sit down and have a dialogue where we M14 are free to push our political agenda with fear of retribution or death because the gun pointed at our head is no longer there! How about it? Be fair, civilized and decent! Agree to level the playing field so your master don't have a monopoly on us.

I meant "without" fear of retribution, typo.

the root of all the problems are the arms of hezbollah... that is why a dialogue should focus on that! otherwise it is useless. hezbollah is the only pb that prevents lebanon from improving!

@kesrweneh are you talking about the same M14 government that was forbidden to enter da7yeh to enforce the law? Or remove an illegal camera pointed at the airport? Or the dismantle the illegal telecom network? Those M14 you want for them to go disarm Palestinians? The ones who are killed or blown up every time they try to enforce the law? Ya 3eib el shoum 3ala el kzb and revisionist warped minds taba3kon. If the truth came up and bit you in your chimney, you would still lie thru your teeth about it.

hezb doesn t want the palestinians to disarm ! they have an excuse to keep theirs like that! disarming the camps would logically disarming them too! so they prefer to let them armed...

I love the Hakim too sophia_angle but we need a uniter as president. No matter what Samir does he will have a large number of Lebanese who will never trust him. Like I posted earlier, he has too much bagage for a post like this.