Al-Rahi Meets Bkirki-Hizbullah Dialogue Committee
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Thursday met with the committee tasked with following up on the dialogue between Bkirki and Hizbullah.
The committee comprises Bkirki representatives Bishop Samir Mazloum and Hareth Shehab and Hizbullah envoys Ghaleb Abu Zainab and Mustafa al-Hajj Ali. The meeting was also attended by lawyer Walid Ghayyad, the director of Bkirki’s press office.
Al-Rahi stressed during the talks the importance of “launching dialogue among all the Lebanese according to the spiritual and national principles and values.”
The conferees managed during the meeting to “define the framework within which dialogue would be conducted,” state-run National News Agency reported.
They also agreed that the committee would continue discussions on the aforementioned framework in upcoming periodic meetings.
On Monday the patriarch revealed that “serious dialogue has been launched with Hizbullah in order for all matters to be laid out in the open at the national dialogue” table.
“The time when Hizbullah lays down its arms would be a great day but let us be reasonable however and admit that most of our problems are external,” he said.
12 January 2012, 22:58
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Most people forget that in 1993 Hizballah asked Patriarch Sfeir if he would be wiling to organize a committee tasked with opening a dialogue between Bkirki and the party. Patriarch Sfeir was very happy to agree and between 1993 and 2006 that committee met regularly. Then in 2006 Hizballah single handedly and abruptly decided to halt the meetings. I wasn't that Patriarch Sfeir had all of a sudden changed his speech but by 2006 Hizballah had Aoun a paid employee giving them the semblance of open mindedness so they did not need the church anymore. After Patriarch Raii's Paris speech Hizballah decided to resurrect that idea of the committee but as Patriarch Raii will soon learn they will break it off as soon as he says something they don't like. At least today they seem to have let him and his crew show their crosses, they were in Bkirki after all.
12 January 2012, 23:34
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Tell them to pay their electricity bill. They are bankrupting the country. How much of the debt is from Shia electricity plus interest.
13 January 2012, 00:34
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thepatriot, what you want is a Sunni Christian as a Patriarch. Go speak with your Mufti in Saudi Arabia.
13 January 2012, 04:28
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"dialogue between blirki and hizballah"....! Is hizballah now a "religion" on its own? what is happening here........soon will see dialogue between bkirki and the social baath party, the SSNP, the communist party. What is al rahi doing?
13 January 2012, 07:30
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Al Rahi is deviating from the traditional role of the church by holding dialogue with political armed groups, which in turn opens him to "political" criticism. That is not the church's role, but rather the role of politicians..........
13 January 2012, 10:01
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@Rokamto
My compliments for your secterian comment.You are of the lowest species.
I am not against shiaa, sunni, or druze.
I am against Hezbollah & Amal gangs!
