Hizbullah Slams Jahliyeh Raid, Calls for Stability
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A Hizbullah delegation on Monday offered condolences in the Chouf town of Jahliyeh over the death of ex-minister Wiam Wahhab’s bodyguard Mohammed Bou Diab.
Bou Diab died of his wounds after being injured in a confrontation between Wahhab’s supporters and an elite force from the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch. The force was seeking to arrest Wahhab or notify him of the need to appear before the Branch for interrogation.
“The martyr sacrificed his blood for the sake of the country and Mount Lebanon and in order to prevent strife,” senior Hizbullah official Mahmoud Qmati said in Jahliyeh.
He added that Bou Diab died to “prove that Mount Lebanon is the mountain of Arabism and the mountain of resistance.”
“Stability in Lebanon and Mount Lebanon is essential and a steady policy,” Qmati went on to say.
“We want Mount Lebanon to remain secure and we will not encourage any strife in Mount Lebanon or the country,” he added.
Criticizing Saturday’s raid, Qmati said: “What happened in Jahliyeh with the arrival of such a force in dozens of vehicles was not aimed at delivering a judicial notice and it could have led to strife and to a massive bloody massacre although this may have not been the intention of those behind it.”
Adding that the judiciary in Lebanon “should not become politicized,” the Hizbullah official said: “The axis of resistance has triumphed in the region but we in Lebanon do not act according to the principle of victors and losers but rather according to the principle of partnership.”
Qmati also called for a “transparent and honest probe” to identify “those who killed the martyr Mohammed Bou Diab,” while stressing that Hizbullah does not accept the manner in which Jahliyeh was “attacked.”
Wahhab had been summoned by the Intelligence Branch in connection with a lawsuit filed against him by a number of lawyers over insults he addressed to Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and his slain father ex-PM Rafik Hariri.
The Chouf region had on Friday witnessed another standoff between supporters of Wahhab and Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat after the ex-minister’s supporters took to the streets in armed convoys.
03 December 2018, 21:08
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Hezbollah must make clear to the Lebanese government that any actions by any of the security forces done without the approval of Hezbollah will result in the immediate overthrow of the government, with a Hezbollah figurehead put in charge of the security forces.
04 December 2018, 08:22
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Hezbollah represents all that is wrong with the Middle East: Religion, extremism, worship of militarism, the use of violence and assassination. Very similar MO to Israel. Daesh and Nusra are on the same level of stupidity and barbarism as that of Bashar Al Assad's regime.
What none of those idiots realizes is that God is a human invention and that we are nothing but a different animal species that is the most dangerous.
Our fairy tales of gods and lands and prophets etc. are our culture and it is a toxic one. We must become more scientific and utilitarian in the region and realize that what is important is our sustainable survival and that of our children and grand children.
I hope that one day a few of us across the Middle East will wake up and find a solution that will bring peace, stability and sustainable economic growth to all.
04 December 2018, 11:10
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Can someone please explain how when someone fires shots at the legal Lebanese Defence Forces, he is defending Lebanon, and should he get killed, as anyone firing against the legal forces should be, then he become a martyr.
In any other country shooting at the legal defence forces is called TERRORISM.
