Karami Warns National Dialogue will Fail
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Former Prime Minister Omar Karami expressed fears on Friday that the National Dialogue between the bickering parties would fail over the conditions set by the March 14 opposition coalition.
“We hope that the national dialogue would succeed but the conditions imposed by some parties push us to believe that the conditions for the success of dialogue haven’t ripened yet,” he said on the 25th assassination anniversary of his brother former Premier Rashid Karami.
President Michel Suleiman set June 11 for the all-party talks at Baabda palace. The March 14 alliance has announced that the dialogue would be useless in the presence of the current cabinet and called for the formation of a neutral salvation government.
But it is yet to announce its final stance on Suleiman’s invitation for the dialogue next month.
On the 2013 parliamentary elections, Karami backed proportionality and rejected any other law similar to the 1960 electoral law. The cabinet has so far failed to adopt a draft-law on proportional representation.
The former premier said Rashid Karami “was an exceptional statesman who was respected by both friends and foes.”
He lamented that “Lebanon is on the way to destruction” and said “the institutions will collapse” and laws are ink on paper.
He advised Lebanese officials to resolve the crises in the country, saying “the policy of distancing Lebanon from the conflict in Syria should not be (an excuse) to escape” from attempts to solve the problems.
On recent criticism of the army following the killing of two Sheikhs at al-Kweikhat army checkpoint in the northern region of Akkar, Karami said: “It is our duty as politicians to be at the forefront of the defense to the army’s role and its unity.”
The former premier also called on the judiciary to reconsider the amnesty law against Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea who was accused of killing Rashid Karami in a bomb blast that targeted his helicopter in 1987.
01 June 2012, 11:59
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Karami is a dreamer and an illusionist. He would sell himself to keep the Syrian regime alive because from there he acquires his political might, if he still has any. After all, he's a very old man and should respect whatever is left of his years on earth by saving us his mantra of failure that he's famous in preaching alongside his old man Aoun. These two are so predictable and boring I simply don't even read what they say. If only these two could disappear from the face of this earth. Or better so, show us their backs.
01 June 2012, 13:36
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don t worry mowaten only M14 politicians get killed in lebanon... never M8 ! i wonder why? hahaha!
02 June 2012, 08:45
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mowaten, NAME for me a single M8 figure that was assassinated after Hariri???? and keep in mind I'm not asking before the time of Hariri's assassination. because that was a different time (i.e. AOUN was Anti Syrian before he came back to Lebanon) So just give US an answer to just ONE guy who was assassinated after hariri... OK?
01 June 2012, 12:38
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Rashid Karame never married your writer of this story is quite ignorant
01 June 2012, 13:10
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I thought we kicked you out in 2005! You resigned after you forbid a demonstration and over 100,000 people showed up despite the intimidation of the army. You are not wanted anymore...or have you ever been...
01 June 2012, 14:35
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LF mentality. Jesus said turn the other cheak, forgive, love. LF says kill murder torture. What a shame.
01 June 2012, 15:12
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well you turn the other cheek. I know for a fact if i do, i'll get slapped again. so no thanks
01 June 2012, 18:01
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Yeah right, dont exaggerate and pretend to be a victim that everyone is out to get. Dont attack others and in 99% of cases, you dont get attacked. But its impossible to explain this to LF. You guys are trained to hate, kill and rape in the name of christianity which is innocent of your thuggery. LF is like alqaida.
02 June 2012, 05:56
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I disagree with Rudy here. Turning the other cheek does not mean you will get slapped again. AND, more importantly, we do not turn the other cheek for our own sake, or to change the other person, but because of who we are. We turn the other cheek because we follow Jesus.
Good point lebanese88, anyone who teaches 'revenge' and 'killing' is not teaching and living what Jesus taught, and the word 'Christians' MEANS 'those who live like Christ'.
PS: I am neither M8 nor M14, but I am with the only one who is worthy of being followed and never makes mistakes: Jesus.
01 June 2012, 15:12
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in response to peace lets analyse the assasinations....when m14 was in charge...gmayell a minister killed in his own town..his assisans knew him because they stopped greeted him then killed him and left to disappear??? where was his protection that should have been provided? wissam eid head of INTELLIGENCE blown up in his car alone and carrying sensitive files...has does the head of a countries intelligence be in this position? where was his protection? why wasnt his car searched before he gets in it everytime? francois haj head of army blown up in his car how does that happen where was his protection ? again why werent necessary security measures taken before he moves? eido minister blown up again car bombing why wasnt necessary protection and safety measures taken place? who are the people that can get that close to people of this importance? just a thought
01 June 2012, 17:50
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all i m saying is that the majority of those who opposed syria or its friends here got killed these last years...that is strange !
02 June 2012, 10:36
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Yes, of course Alex, M14 killed their own people, that makes the most sense. It had nothing to do with the remnants of the Syrian regime that still maintained controls on the security apparatus. It nothing to do with the Iranian controlled militia that had means and motive to carry out the assassinations.
Even if M14 could have replaced the Syrian and Hezbollah controlled security officers, there is still no way to stop all murder attempts from a persistent criminal.
01 June 2012, 16:46
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When will the Hakim terminate this other Karame? Why doesn't he terminate everybody?
01 June 2012, 17:26
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@lebanese88, rashid karame was a traitor and he divided the lebanese army in a time that we should have been united against the palestinians. He sided with them and divided the army. So personally, its good he blew out in thousand of pieces in his escape helicopter whoever killed him is a hero.May he rot in hell and next to him soon his brother Omar lebanon's most incompetent prime minister.
01 June 2012, 18:28
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all his political life rachid karame advanced the pan-arabist and palestinian causes ahead of lebanon's welfare..
he supported nasser's push to make lebanon part of the united arab republic,
he defended the plo's uprising in 1968 that lead to the 1969 cairo accord
he sided with arafat's terrorists against the lebanese army in 1973
he refused to send in the lebanese army in 1975 to try and curtail the war
he was the syrian hegemony's best friend until he got so deservedly whacked
the lebanese would have been better of without him
01 June 2012, 18:36
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Michel Aoun 18 May 2005: "Keeping Geagea in prison is an injustice. I declare my solidarity with him until he is released."
01 June 2012, 21:46
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Just for the record...Geaga is not allowed in Tripoli. Even his M14 allies who won the elections in Tripoli advise him not to step in Tripoli. The LF are just puppets to support the future movement.
