Qaouq Says Hizbullah Keen on Govt. Survival despite Weak Performance
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Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, deputy head of Hizbullah’s Executive Council, on Sunday said his party backs Premier Najib Miqati’s government out of “keenness on political stability and security in Lebanon and not because it is satisfied with its performance.”
The top Hizbullah official described the government’s performance as “slow, floundering and unconvincing.”
He said national duty “requires this government to work effectively and productively, away from bets on the Syrian crisis and personal and electoral calculations.”
“They are readying for electoral battles and are involved in the battles of strife in Syria,” Qaouq said of Hizbullah’s political rivals, accusing them of focusing their efforts on disarming his party.
Qaouq stressed that Hizbullah “does not underestimate any Israeli threat” and that it is “preparing itself for any confrontation” with the Jewish state.
“Some domestic parties do not want to hear the Israeli threats or see the Israeli occupation of the Kfarshouba Hills and the Shebaa Farms, the daily violation of Lebanon’s airspace and the infringement of Lebanon’s maritime oil fortunes,” he added.
“They want to see confrontations in Syria because they want to return to power at any cost and through any means,” Qaouq went on to say.
He charged that “the U.S., Israel and March 14 want to weaken the Resistance through the crisis in Syria,” describing Hizbullah as an “invincible barrier blocking the schemes of the U.S., Israel and America’s tools in Lebanon and the region.”
“Those who have entangled themselves in the Syrian crisis have turned Lebanon into an arena that is being violated by Syrian armed men,” Qaouq added.
The Hizbullah official noted that his party was “not against hosting peaceful refugees and offering them aid,” describing that as a “humanitarian and ethical issue.”
Slamming the regimes in Riyadh and Manama, Qaouq said: “Syria has set a date for halting the fight with the armed men, but when will Saudi Arabia and Bahrain declare an end to killing and oppression in Manama and (the mainly Shiite-populated eastern Saudi province of) Qatif.”
“There are crimes and an ongoing humanitarian tragedy being committed at the hands of Gulf armies against a peaceful people amid an Arab-American greenlight,” Qaouq said, in reference to Bahrain’s crackdown on the Shiite-led protest movement and the Saudi-led intervention by a Gulf Cooperation Council force that helped quell a month-long uprising.
08 April 2012, 23:16
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Not true. What did the current government achieve? Not that the other governments achieved much more.
Don´t forget, most of the ones sitting today were sitting yesterday too;)
If you mean that they achieved something by the electricity issue-----) its far from solved yet.
...but to be fair, among the things achieved by FPM are the reduced telephone bills ( compared to the bills during the 90:s and early 2000...)
09 April 2012, 04:27
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Smaller bills = less cash for gov to improve the country. Perhaps it's time to liberalize the
Market and increase the VAT.
09 April 2012, 00:44
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He admits weak performance. Why didn't he admit drug manufacturing and sending killers to Syria to kill innocent people.
Why don't they pay for electricity instead of living off the work of other people like beggars. They are bankrupting the country.
09 April 2012, 03:39
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Ya flamethrower ya habibe, wlek wake up man, what achievements? the oil drill was proposed even during saad hariri's cabinet and not even applied till today, electricity is even worse than before, Bassil and Nahass ( even then ministers of telecommunications in hariri's cabinet ) put up more than 650,000 lines without even increasing the performance of the networks at the time. I dont know if u lived in lebanon or visited during the year 2011, the lines always cut and sometimes somebody else answers on the other end of the line! You were all criticizing sanioura for the TVA , did the governement of M8 renounce it? they supposedly only removed it on gas but now gas keeps increasing even more than before and always disputes with the gas station owners. Lebanon's economic growth was the weakest in the region in 2011.
09 April 2012, 03:50
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Even Hezbollah your ally admits needing the governement and surely not for its " weak " performance . I respect Hezbollah even though i am not with them and never will be because they are way more honorable than FPM. At least they gave a lot to shias in the south. What did Aoun give you in keserwan , metn, jdeide, Jbeil?
09 April 2012, 04:25
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Another turban.... Not very traditional Lebanese look for the least...............
09 April 2012, 08:21
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Of course you need this Gov. to be sustained cz it is a rare opportunity for you to tighten your grip on the country through rigged 2013 election so that you can secure another false majority...Bunch of Farsi scumbags
09 April 2012, 09:09
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Flame Thrower, or should i say Mr. Know it all, although i am not an M14 supporter, but times where better before this useless government took over, start writing down your list: electricity (worsen), spoiled food, fake medicines, increase of crime rate (the Syrians (border overflow) have to live too, isn't it? and the list goes on... Are you wearing a black shirt today?
09 April 2012, 09:41
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- they do not underestimate the israeli threat: be sure it is coming.
- the opposition do not want to see the israeli threat: actually, this threat is there because of hizbushaitan, and we will not lift a finger to help these thugs once it starts.
hizbushaitan has burnt all its credibility with the lebanese people, and please do keep this government as it shows by the day your inability to govern, even when you control a country totally. each day you are destroying your chances and your allies possibillity to be relected, so thank you for what you are doing.
09 April 2012, 09:45
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Let's see Hizb's message these days"
1) blah blah blah resistance
2) blah blah blah Israel
3) Talk about syria and bahrain, but somehow they are both different
lather, rinse, repeat
09 April 2012, 18:03
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of course they need this gvt to cover up all their thefts and close eyes on the illegal things they do to preserve their mafia....
09 April 2012, 19:02
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Do M8 officials ever open their mouths except for the sake of flooding us with lies? And impudent lies at that!
