Compliments from a good friend of mine in Qatar ..

The nature of the conflict btw the 14th and 8th of march teams started after the July war primarily between the Shiites and Sunnites, however it was turned into a Christian-Christian fight after the black Tuesday and nowadays i sense that Aoun & Geagea and the Christians in general are the problem for Hezbollah & Hariri and that any solution will require weakening one Christian side further.

The current government includes only 1 LF minister, while Aounists have none.
The LF will not accept having less ministers than Aoun in the ‘adjusted’ government and vice versa.

So both teams are increasing their speech levels and going to the extremes while Hariri and Berri are having dialogues.

Christians have put themselves in a losing position because of their behavior, mainly cause of Aoun’s behavior and his ‘agreement’ with Hezbollah that splitted the Christian community like no other agreement did.

Hakim has regained some of his popularity on the Christian level but the lack of initiatives and the few mistakes being done are keeping him on the same level as Aoun. I blame him for example for reaching low levels in some speeches, mainly when addressing Lahoud.

Al-Akhbar reported today that Geagea is uneased with the way discussions are going btw Hariri & Berri, i dont trust this paper a lot, but this says a lot about our position as Christians.

In Summary, i see it this way.
While Hariri,Jumblatt and Berri,Nasrallah are strenghening their positions, the Christian leaders are still divided and the Christian population is leaving.

… and has every right to be worried !

What is happening now is like the calmness before the storm, all politicians fortifying their strongholds, arming their men, raising their speeches and tensions.

What are we waiting for to dialogue again ?? The traffic of weapons is becoming so popular its insane, i hear everyday from friends about this guy who got a new Mp5 or Glocks for sale or M16 etc etc …

The old man always speaks wisely, but no one to listen ! The LF should back him up, not just in speeches but through actions ..

Read his article here.

A small favor from the 14th of march and 8th of march when organizing the demonstrations ..
Kindly ask the supporters to leave the martyrs’ statue alone and not let them climb and sit on their heads and backs and put a flag in every hole in their body.

Honestly its stupid and disrespectful !

This world is really amazing…

Yesterday as I listened to Monsignor  Tawk announcing the decisions of the Maronite Bishops meetings on TV, I was struck by the hypocrisy of the so called opposition figures and quite seriously I began to wonder if they believe that the general IQ of the entire Lebanese population is as low as that of their blind followers…

To recap the latest events: after the Dark Tuesday and Dreadful Thursday events, Aoun and Franjiyi, the two Christian figures of the Hezbollah lead opposition met together, and in a public ceremony, signed the “Bkerki Paper” which was an edict by his Holiness Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Maronite Patriarch, calling amongst other things, upon the cessation of all hostilities between brothers of the same religion, calling on keeping the Christian areas far from the destructive methodology that the opposition is resorting to in order to oust the current government.

Once the paper signed, out came the so called “people who care for the Christian community” claiming left and right that the LF and the other Christian factions of 14^th March were avoiding the signature of this pact and they were evading all the responsibilities imparted upon them by the Bkerki call.

Many, quite unfortunately, fell for this propaganda, and failed to realize that it was nothing but a well orchestrated campaign that Aoun and Franjiyi had organized in order to regain some of the Christian street that their behaviors and alliances had scared away.

Now, at this point, I would like to ask Aoun and his company: since you are so jealous of the Christian interests in Lebanon and since you re so intent on respecting the Patriarch’s requests and making sure every one abides by them, how come you are selective in choosing what to take and what to reject from Bkerki???

Knowing the short term memory of some of my fellow Lebanese compatriots, I will not tax their minds with asking them to remember events which took place far back in time…

I will instead ask them to recall December of 2006…merely two months ago…beginning with Bkerki’s request to all the Christians NOT TO TAKE THE STREETS and NOT TO PARTICIPATE in the Hezbollah lead sit in that has, incidentally, been going on ever since until this very day…

If I recall correctly, Aoun did not feel very concerned by this call and his ally Franjiyi even went so far as to announce on Al Manar TV that the Patriarch was “aroused” or “excited” by all the mothers and widows of those who lost their lives and that was why he made his statement (those were the mothers and widows of the martyrs assassinated within the last 5 years…they had gone to the Patriarch to demand him to interfere in order to avoid a new inter-Christian clash, similar to the one of 1990).

Next I will move on to the second event which occurred, and that’s when Patriarch Sfeir sent one of the Maronite Bishops (I believe it was Monsignor Roland Abou Jawdeh) to President Lahoud, asking him to step down in light of all the events that had occurred and to try to defuse the stressed situation. Here again, I did not see Aoun rushing to make sure that the Patriarch’s request was abided. Not to mention that Aoun continues to support Lahoud being in the presidency as per his famous saying “Either I become president or Lahoud remains”.

In every single appearance of the Patriarch (take for instance the one on one interview May Chidiac had with him a couple of weeks back), he has explicitly criticized the sit ins that are crippling Down Town Beirut and has asked that these forms of protests be stopped since they are leading to no where and instead are causing great losses to everyone in the country…again, no sign of life from the general.

Lastly, yesterday’s call came, again criticizing and requesting an immediate halt to practices which were crippling the economy and harming the country…

OK…I guess it’s my right to ask here: why is the general so selective in his acceptance of Bkerki’s requests?

One can’t help but notice that when the going got tough for him on the popularity level,  especially after the bloody incidents that occurred on Tuesday January 23^rd 2007, and after his miserable attempts at diverting the attention to the so called Lebanese Forces militia (remember the famous Photoshop fakes anyone?), General Aoun resorted to playing the strictest sectarian card he had in his hands and that’s pretending to be Bkerki’s best pal…

Seriously, who is this guy trying to fool?

This really goes to prove that absolute power always corrupts absolutely…I guess all this blind following has gone to his head and made him think that the entire Lebanese population would be the same…

Sorry general…you messed up once again…will this be the last time??? judging by your past performances, I doubt it…

Trying to recover some of whats left of Aouns image (of course by smearing the Lebanese Forces image with empty allegations) the Aounist propaganda machine kicks out in full force…after the poorly doctored pictures Aoun was soo dumb to show in TV, there comes the mass mailers…

One such mail I got today was so blatantly biased and full of lies, that I could not resist replying to it…I will not post my reply for security reasons, but however, here’s what my friend N10452 had to say in light of the points raised in the mail

Below is the mail (points that were raised are in bold), along with the replies replies…

- do u know the past of each and every person and/or party member of 14
march?
Yes We know the past of every person and we know that those were pro-Syrians and after paying a very heavy price, realized that they cannot rule the country alone and they admitted their mistakes unlike others that have a ‘flawless’ history..
 
As for Hezbollah, he still needs a slap in the face to understand that …
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I have always been keen on digging up history, especially in these dark days we are going through when accusations and counter accusations fly left and right.
 

One ironic thing I still cant get myself to swallow is the way some politicians always like to portray themselves as the ones to bring about reforms and change while painting the Lebanese Forces as a militia and a bunch of thugs.
 

And, just for the record, and to set the wandering minds straight about those matters, the Lebanese Forces has had a proven track record in working as hard on the civilian aspect of the Lebanese problems as well as fiercely fighting on the battlefield.
 

Very much unlike those that have made a living and managed to attract people around them by criticizing the LF’s every action and slandering the name of this institution.
 

I do not deny that in the past, during the bitterest years of the war that ravaged Lebanon, the Lebanese Forces acted like a militia, in fact, just like all the other warring factions that were participating in the dance of death, but, at the same time, the Lebanese Forces had in mind a vision for the country.
 

Although the Lebanese Forces started out as a grouping of militias that were all fighting to keep the country free of any foreign control, it soon realized that what they were fighting was merely the result of an unhealthy society…to win their fight they would have to go deeper to the roots of the problem and work directly on the cause.
 

Many in the Lebanese Forces leadership had a vision concerning this, a vision they wanted so hard to implement, and that was the formation of a healthy society, and from that would emerge the healthy individual, whose devotion to his country would lead him to put his countries best interests first and foremost before anything else.

A citizen who understood and appreciated his country and did not seek another place to call home.

A citizen who like Jubran once said, would not ask what his country was providing him, but rather was weary as what he could do to help out his country in need.
 

Ever since Dr. Samir Geagea took over the leadership of the Lebanese Forces, in 1986, he realized the emergency of acting on this vision and making it a reality in order to save the country from the deep dark mud it was sinking in.
 

He started working on achieving these goals, targeting primarily the Lebanese society he and his fighters were living in, in an attempt to start from home and grow outwards to engulf the whole region and then the whole country.
 

And one of the very first results that came out was Social Security.
 

Other introductions were public transport, educational reform, health care and medical assistance.
 

The reader has to understand that the mere fact of making those achievements was a miracle in a country that had been ravaged by nine terrible years  of other wars being fought on its soil…
 

And, one of the last projects before the bloody, gloomy corridor that the country would enter in 1989, a corridor that was to veil three year’s work with a shadow of blood and destructionone of the last great projects presented by the Lebanese Forces to the Lebanese people, was the “National Council For Development”.
 

This council’s motto was a very nice one: instead of providing the citizens with fish to eat, it would teach them how to fish and catch their own food.
 

Here’s a video of DSG in 1989 as he launched this magnificent project.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDyY73reyWg
 

Much like it was back in 1986, the Lebanese Forces today is still following the same road, and that is to build a solid enough Lebanese Society, a society that would be able to lift itself above the abyss most of its leaders have sought to drown it in, hoping by weakening it, to be able to better rule it.
 

I know many of my countrymen choose to remember from history what best fits their current political inclinations, but to forget your history this way would definitively mean to gamble on your future as this would leave one open to influence by any Tom Dick and Harry with an agenda to implement.

Why are all the fights in Christian regions ??
Why the FPMers and LFers are only fighting ??

Notice how Hezbollah blocked the roads far from any Sunnite presence and controlled the areas around it and all the sensitives blocks are put in Christian regions !

The army is to be blamed for not acting rapidly and they will bare the consequences ..
Nahr el Kalb was opened after the LFers forced their way in.

The same thing will happen everywhere, and i dont blame any side for it.

I got comments from few Snoopies ( another term for SSNP guys) praising Habib el Shartouni and El Alam and attacking el Bash.

You guys are proving day after day that you are the garbage of our society, you are the filth and poison that has been killing our Lebanon for years.

You killed Our Dream, but trust me, everytime u insult Sheikh Bashir, you are turning more people against you, and you are digging ur own grave and only time will tell.

Why would someone beat up Ghattas Khouri’s wife ?

Samar Jabbour, a teacher at the American University Hospital was assaulted while leaving her work. A person stopped her called her by her name and punched her then asked her “if she liked that”.

Even though this incident might not be a politica one, it was listed as one on all papers today. I heard from friends in AUB that some rumors were spread that it was a Hezbollah guy.
I dont believe that, even though everyone started relating this act to Ghattas Khouri’s reply to Naiim Kassem yesterday where he harshly attacked Hezbollah and Kassem.

Well anyway i believe that in normal days, no one would have given that incident much importance. It could be some cowardly act from some intelligence guys to take advantage of the current tensions, or simply some student pissed at his teacher, or some guy in love with his teacher bass mich m3abritto

Whomever did it is one filthy coward for beating a woman.

Anyway, the woman is famous now, and who knows she might get into politics after all the calls she got, Sanioura, Hariri, Amine Gemayel, Jumblatt, Ghassan Tueni, Hassan Sabe3, Marwan Hmadeh, Aridi etc etc ..

I wanna wish you all a Happy New Year 2007.

But on that occasion, i wanna wish our people to keep in mind that only one path will lead us to a free democratic sovereign Lebanon, one path will unite us, the path of our brave martyrs who died for us to live peacefully.

Rise above the rotten political class and prove that the Cedars Revolution was not a lie, that we are a people worthy of living freely.

Let us hope this year will put an end to the brutal assasinations and tensions and see our young Lebanese come back instead of leaving the country.

I hate to bring this up, but i sense the current situation is gonna blow up one more time and end up by an assasination or a bombing.
What i fear this time is a bombing in Gemmayze or in Achrafieh, those places have been very crowded every night for the past 2 weeks and managed to overcome the current political situation and attract more people.

Any small incident will empty the streets and add up to the political tensions.

I wish security forces would take more precautions in those streets and i truly hope my feelings are wrong.

I just want to wish all our readers and all the Lebanese a Merry Christmas.
Last year, we lost Gebran before Christmas, and this year Pierre Gemayel, i hope that this Christmas will be the last one under such circumstances.

Merry Christmas to all the Lebanese, Christians & Muslims.

There are two times of the year when Lebanon flourishes, summer and Christmas. These are the two times of the year when Lebanese and tourists flock to Lebanon.

This year both the summer and Christmas season were ruined by Hezbollah. And they say they want a better Lebanon? No Lebanese would ever want to destroy the countries economy. Hezbollah couldn’t wait until after Christmas to demonstrate?

I just want to show the FPM their flag next to the ones of their allies. Its really sad how the FPM have joined forces with the Syrian and Iranian forces. We spent so much time fighting to get them out of Lebanon and now they want to bring them back in so that their leader Aoun can become president. Selling out the whole country for the presidency, what a great plan. I am glad yesterdays demonstration was a failure, it goes to show them who the true Lebanese majority are.

So Hezbollah and FPM are against American influence in Lebanon but they are fine with Iranian and Syrian influence?

For you FPM readers out there I would suggest you read up on Iran a bit just so you get a small preview of what Lebanon will turn into if Hezbollah take control. If you don’t, you might be in for the shock of your life.

After failing miserably to have another 14th of march, the so-called ‘Opposition’ is trying to immitate the 14th of march activities and events by all means.

I keep reading about the organized Hezbollah members and security, however it amazes me how they failed to keep the place clean, or is it a camouflage to hide some Katyusha Rockets and launch them on the parliament ?

Who knows this could be Hezbollah’s next surprise ( not so surprising to me though):

Anyway, here is a small hint you could use from the Civilized Cedars Revolution we conducted:

Those are regulations for the camp we had, that had no arguile, no garbage and did not require security men for every tent.

Click here for a larger image.

Cheers.

The U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, French President Jacque Chirac, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and the US State Department have so far called Saniora expressing support for his government.

Who would call Hezbollah? Here are my guesses:
Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba and Palestine.

So after all these years we finally got Syria out of Lebanon now Hezbollah and Aoun want to bring back a Pro-Syrian government? I don’t understand this. Aoun wants to be president so bad that he has aligned himself with terrorists. Not only that but he also now supports Syria? How come the Aounieh can’t see this?

After exposing yesterday how confused and brainwashed are the Aounists that are demonstrating today, i think it is time to expose Aoun’s new manoeuver to take over the presidency.

During the past 16 years, Aoun was trying to build himself an image of the patriotic ‘clean’ and popular leader, but in vain since everytime he came back to his original character, he would hit another wall and drag the Christians to a disastrous situation.

Back in 1988, he accepted Tunis agreement and promised the Syrians of finishing off the LF within 2 weeks, yet he failed.

In 1989, the Syrians rejected him as well as the Muslims, so he led a war against them and failed big time.

In 1989-1990, He exploited the Christians by launching Anti-LF and Anti-Syrian propagandas and tried to destroy the LF once again but failed miserably.

In 1990, He gathered the people around his palace to protect him from Syrians, but he lost their support and Syrians kicked him out, he tried to oppose Taef as well earlier ( almost the same text as Tunis) saying it is against the Lebanese people, but he was denied.

Throughout the 1990-2005, he was the Pro-American Pro-Europe politician lobbying against Hezbollah and Syria.

In 2005, he made a deal with Pr.Lahoud and Syrian allies to get back to Lebanon.

In 2005, he fought elections with Syria’s allies and won after exploiting the Christians’ weaknesses.

In 2006, he signed an agreement with Hezbollah’s illegal armed militia that he fought in the past 10 years and even strongly supported the 1559 UN Resolution that asked for its disarment. ( Resolution that he is attacking currently).

During Israel’s war on Lebanon, he stood behind the government and condemned Hezbollah’s immature act.
After war, he blasted the government and supported Hezbollah’s heroic resistance.

During the last 7iwar sessions, he almost made a deal with the government before Hezbollah asked its ministers to resign and so he had to reject the deal.

After Sheikh Pierre’s assasination, he first asked his followers to calm down then asked them to provok others by reputting his posters. Even though they had the right to put them back, the tensions that he created after his speech were enough to cause fights and riots in Universities and on the street.

Today, Aoun has one plan in mind, help Hezbollah as much as possible to topple the government or force the government to accept the blocking 1/3, then resign again from the government, and call for early elections and impose himself as president.

This is his last chance of getting to presidency and he will burn the country if he has to.

This last plan will be Aoun’s biggest failure ever in my opinion, and his ‘chef d’oeuvre’ of stupidity.