While hearing his speech today and any of his speeches, i feel this man is talking in another dimension, speaking as if he lived on another planet ..

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Nothing is more annoying the Aounists & Hezbollah and other Opposition parties than the fact that the LFers refuse to get involved in the violent incidents …

Hezbollah & Tayyar media have been initimidating the LF since yesterday, and making up rumors about their presence in several spots, yet all news were denied by the LF ..

I warn them and assure them that the guys are all ready and waiting for any HA or Amal thug to put one foot in the Christian regions … and i assure them that they ll only be getting back in body bags if they try to cause trouble in our regions ..

Peace

Several demonstrations will be organized today ( in few hours) by the Opposition workers in several Lebanese regions, while political tensions are escalating on an hourly basis, specially after the last bold decisions taken by the government concerning Hezbollah ..

The demonstration is of course politically driven and The Opposition is trying to create chaos and has already sent several threats ..

What should M14 supporters do?
Go to work as if its a normal day.

What should M14 leaders do ?
Stay in control of their supporters.

What should the armed forces do ?
Arrest and beat anyone who tries to close roads of annoyg people passing by.

Hezbollah wants to unleash the gates of hell on Sanioura and Mufti Qabbani made it clear tonight Hezbollah crossed the line and the Sunnites will not stay silent !

This is turning into an ugly Shiite-Sunnite conflict that hopefully will not degenerate.
Sunnites are already starting to close roads tonight and tomorrow will be a heated day.

I was hoping for Hakim to go meet Aoun despite all differences and agree that there will be no Christian interference in this fight whatsoever … Aoun already was smart enough ( or most probably chickened out) and did not participate in today’s demo ..

Here are few excerpts from Qabbani’s speech few minutes ago:
8:51 Qabbani called on Hizbullah leaders to pull their armed men out of Beirut’s streets and its central district.
8:50 Lebanese Sunna are fed up with Hizbullah practices, Grand Mufti Qabbani said
8:48 Hizbullah is trying to overpower Lebanon, Qabbani added
8:47 Qabbani warned Hizbullah against attacking the Lebanese civilians and hegemony over the Lebanese state and governmental institutions
8:46 Hizbullah has become an armed force aims at occupying Beirut , Qabbani said

Cabinet Approves Pay Raise, Removes Shqeir, Labels Hizbullah Telephone Network Illegal

The session, a historic one, ended at 4:30 am and its decisions were for once bold !
Hezbollah’s telephone network is illegal and Chouqeir, head of the airport security and close to Hezbollah was removed from his post.

The opposition started threatening and babbling but i am glad the government stayed on his decision, and tomorrow will be the first test for both sides ..
M14 should maintain order at any price and avoid clashes and silence the Opposition in the most democratic way possible .. The army here and Sleiman have a huge responsability too ..

One remark though, that Sejaan Azzi mentioned today and that i support 100%
He critisized the government’s decison of considering the HA network illegal saying they should consider HA illegal in the first place and change the “bayan wizari” once and for all ..

I will not bother comment on any of his statements, they speak for themselves !!
Maybe he’s too old, maybe he lost it .. or maybe he never had it in the first place !

Read and laugh !

From Naharnet:

Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun called for demonstrations on Wednesday to topple Premier Fouad Saniora’s government, praised Hizbullah’s weapons and said monitoring Beirut airport is not a security violation.

Calls to elect a president prior to agreeing on a general elections law “be they made by secular or religious” circles are tantamount to “conspiring against the Christians and seeking to marginalize them.”
He was referring, among others, to Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir who had repeatedly said electing a president is a priority.

Aoun also defended Hizbullah’s private communications network, claiming, “There are other private communications networks than Hizbullah’s.” He did not name them, however.

“Finding a camera on airport road is not a security penetration,” Aoun said.

Aoun defended Hizbullah’s activity in Kesrouan and Byblos (Jobeil) provinces, noting: “Lebanese Forces exist in Rmeish and Qleiaa (south Lebanon) and they move freely. Why Hizbullah shouldn’t move in Kesrouan and Byblos?” he asked.

Aoun launched a vehement attack on the leading daily an-Nahar claiming it has abandoned its “ethical principles and does not derserve to be read anymore. It has become a propaganda bulletin for March 14.”

He defended Hizbullah weapons as “subject to good conduct certificate.”

I just finished watching V for Vendetta and i was chatting with a friend afterwards on the upcoming election session and we got inspired and came up with a plan that March14 supporters should adopt in order to exercise some pressure on Christians Mps who are boycotting the sessions ..

The plan is very simple, let the people drag those Mps into the parliament and wait for them outside until they elect a president and let us have a calm summer !

Let groups of people peacefully surround every one of those MPs’ houses, ask them to go the parliament, escort them there and wait outside .. This is their job and they are getting paid to elect us a president ..

Michel el Murr has been organizing events to pressure them, but he just wants attention .. What we need is an increasing pressure from people who do care about their country, and not just want attention ..

Reference to my previous post, where few people tried to justify that big mistake by saying we should all forgive .. i checked today and the article was removed from the site, silently and without any apology ..

We used to make fun of the Tayyar for hiding their mistakes that way, now we are doing the same …
Maybe its that quest of becoming like Tayyar.org that is making some even imitate their mistakes …

Shame.

I read your post, LJ and i couldnt refrain from replying in a new post …
You speak of ego, you speak of disrespect, you speak of official or non-official ..

I will ask you and everyone questions … and whenever i get a sincere answer, maybe then i will reconsider even considering this whole disrespect and loyalty issue to Dr.Geagea … because as far as i am concerned, we dont have an LF party nowadays, but a group of LFers following blindly Hakim ..

And that is not what i was looking forward to after Hakim got freed ..

I ask you ..and ALL my questions are related to posts i wrote earlier ..

Why is the LF today denying our identity and saying we are Arabs ??
Why is the LF today praising PSP’s history and forgetting the massacres they did to our people ??
Why Does Hakim have time to visit the Druze Sheikhs and not the Christian villages ( Kfarmatta, Brei7 etc ..) ??
Why does Hakim time to visit Jumblatt and no time to bring back the church bells from Mokhtara to their towns ??
Why didnt the “general reconciliation” ever happen ?
Why were the old officers and Ilige kept aside ?
Why is Al Massira boycotted still ?
Why is Antoine Najm out of the LF ? Why is Selmen Smeha out of the LF
Why Hakim never visited the Christian villages in the South ??
Why is the LF still a movement and not a democratic party ??
Why is the LF playing a secondary role wou btotla3 bi bouz el madfa3 everytime ?
Why are we more worried about the international tribunal and dont work 1% for our political prisoners in Syria ??
Why did Hakim reject Federalism ?? based on what right ??
Why are there still LFers outside Lebanon who cannot go back to their families ??

And finally :
What is our plan for the future ??

Patience is a virtue, but there are limits to everything .. and yesterday’s act was shameful and deserves a response ..

A harsh, but needed response.

I never imagined i would fight my own LF brother/sister , and i still refuse to do so, even if they behave like thugs and label other LFers as traitors and ignore all their sacrifices .. all in the name of what ??

The Cause ?? The Martyrs ??

Allah yer7am li meto .. wou Allah yer7am el Adiyye iza hek 3alam zo3ran 3am bidef3o 3anna ..

LF.Org Response to the “attempted” hack

بكركي، التقى البطريرك الماروني الكاردينال نصرالله بطرس صفير زوجات الضباط الاربعة اللواتي حملن اليه جملة اسئلة لا يجدن عليها اجوبة.
زوجة اللواء الحاج سمر الحاج التي تحدثت باسمهن طرحت سلسلة اسئلة عن قبول لبنان الاعتقال التعسفي بخلاف معاهدات جنيف وعن وضع الضباط تحت سلطة فرع المعلومات وليس في السجن العسكري.
واضافت الحاج:هل يقبل عقلاء لبنان ان تُهدد النساء بالقتل من بعض القيادات السياسية واين هو محمد الصديق الذي وُضع الضباط بسببه في الاسر.

As much as i am against threatening anyone for any political stance he/she takes, this woman has no right whatsoever to defend neither herself nor her criminal husband !! Those officers were directly responsible for covering every single assassination the Syrians and their intelligence did, and even participated executing many of them !!

Those are not politicians ! Those are the ones who had the job done! Those are a danger to our society and any society and better stay locked up for good !

I hope she ll join her husband in prison very soon ! thats where she fits best!

I will if ordered.”

Quotes by a Hezbollah fighter from the article ‘Hizbollah builds up covert army for a new assault against Israel‘.

On the 26th of April 2005, The Syrian army withdrew from Beirut and all regions and repositioned itself in the Bekaa. This “nearly complete” withdrawal stopped there and the Syrians are STILL occupying Lebanese soil.

A report by the UN almost a year ago showed that Syrians are still in the Beqaa and performed several incursions inside the Lebanese territories. Added to that, the borders are still not controlled, illegal paths are still there, drug and arms traffic is still there and we dont have yet an acknowledgment from the Syrian regime that Lebanon is a sovereign country.

Most importantly, we dont have a Syrian embassy in Lebanon, which is for me the only proof that Syrians officially acknowledged our independance.

I refuse to celebrate this day, because it is a fake independance, we are still invaded and under the Syrian regime’s influence.

Here is a nice article on Syria’s continuous occupation.

Another civilized act by the terrorist Hezbollah !!

I wonder how they will justify that !!
In my opinion, they heard him speak french, but considering their illiteracy ( sermeyit el sayyid 7assin abda min el 3elem), they thought it was hebrew so they took him away !

Update: One of our readers ‘c’ pasted an article where it shows HA released them only after he knew they were not Israelis.
So my joke turned out to be real …

A French delegate to a Socialist International meeting in Beirut said on Sunday that he had been briefly detained the previous day by armed men linked to Hizbullah.
Delegate Karim Pakzad told a Beirut news conference that he was stopped on Saturday by armed men who “spoke on behalf of Hizbullah.”

He said they questioned him for five hours before freeing him.

Pakzad said it happened as he was touring the capital in an open-top car with a Lebanese friend and taking pictures of a mosque along the airport road, near Hizbullah’s stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

“Armed men asked us ‘why do you have a camera’ and ‘what are you doing here,’” before viewing the pictures he had taken with his digital camera, Pakzad said.

He was taken blindfolded to an unidentified location where he was kept isolated for five hours, adding that his captors took away his cell phone, wallet and medicine.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, who hosted the press conference, said he wished that the government “alone” would be in charge of security and of the war-and-peace decision.

Full Article

Aoun said Premier Fouad Saniora’s Government “rejects calls to look for those missing in their land (buried in mass graves), that is why we cannot hold Syria responsible first” for the Lebanese missing in its jails.

Did this guy actually go to school ??? who taught him logic ?? Hafez el Assad ??

From Naharnet

I still stand at what i posted since the start concerning this incident and how it was treated and i still believe the original incident was not politically-related as it was portrayed.

I will try to make my post short, and i hope i’ll convince those attacking me of my point of view, that was shared by Sami & Amine in the past few days. Sami was enraged on Sunday but did lower his tone the next day.

Back to the original incident, i will tell you what i heard from people who were there and witnessed the shooting.
After the ceremony was over, Sami and other Kataeb officials left and the army decided to leave as well … the kataeb house was left with no armed presence and this is where El Zouki got into a fight with some supporters and then went to his car, picked up his machine gun and started shooting at people calmly and in cold blood. He was in no rush and one of the victims had 13 bullets removed of its body !!
He fled after that to an unknown destination.

There is no proof whatsoever so far about an organized crime, or him evacuating his family, or even about Hezbollah pulling him away to the South ! Honestly this is an insult to anyone’s intelligence !! Why the hell would Hezbollah get involved in that ?? What interest does he have in sticking his nose in such affairs ??
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17 sessions ago, i posted urging M14 to vote for a president at all cost, because if we dont vote on the first time, we will never vote again … The Opposition does NOT want a president and Compromise will only weaken Christians were two other posts where i asked M14 & Christian to vote for a president asap !

Today, Nabih Berri achieved what he has so long been waiting for, he adjourned the session until further notice .. which means we will indeed have a hot summer, as Welch said.

What is the altenative ??

It has always been there and i wish M14 would translate their threats into action, a 50+1 vote that will get us out of this mess ..
What can the Opposition do ?? demonstrate ? organize sit ins ? start a war ??

I believe M14 can confront all of those scenarios …

Unfortunatelly, i still think M14 lack some guts and wont do anything and this is definitly not good news !

I posted earlier yesterday that the Zahle incident was out of personal and not political reasons. Just to clarify one thing, personal does not mean the man had personal issues with those he killed, since he apparently was shooting randomly, but that the fight was initiated after an exchange of insult and curses between the killer and Kataeb supporters.

Joseph Zouki is a thug and a criminal and is very well known in Zahle. From what i heard, he killed his 19 year old cousin in a personal fight long time ago, shot him straight in the head. Later on he commited a crime in 1993 and was jailed for 12 years before being released.

Zahle’s sons are divided between Skaff supporters and 14March supporters and the situation is tense since ever between the two.
Even though Kataeb members are free to celebrate their new office, they were supposed to be more careful and take further precautions and alert the army.

I am sure they asked the army to be present during the ceremony and they were there, but in insufficient numbers and badly spread. They should have surrounded the area and isolated the region until the event is over, and they should AT LEAST waited till everyone left to leave the place, not after Sami Gemayel and few Kataeb officials leave.

There is a huge responsability here on the security forces and their laziness and major incompetence, and i have addressed on tons of occasions the major incompetence and infiltrations found in the army and the ISF.

How to react to this event ?

Sami Gemayel reacted wrongly in my opinion, what is the point of adding more fuel to the fire ??
What is the point of showing off and stretching our muscles ?? We are the biggest losers if war erupts ! we Christians only !!

As Sheikh Amine bravely reacted when his son Pierre was killed, Sami should have calmed everyone and let justice prevail.

Second of all, it should not be turned political because it is not. Its the law of the strongest in some regions in Lebanon and everyone knows it, i am sorry to say that bass fi 3alam rassoun tanke wou bi2awsso 2abel ma ye7ko !

Kataeb & all M14 parties should stay away from such thugish environments and discipline their supporters at all time.
It is shameful to see brave Kataeb members die this way, and it is more shameful to see politicians scoring points on their behalf !

I find it hard to believe that all this was planned .. and i find it ridiculous that M14 leaders are reacting that way !
We have a president to elect, we have deadlines and all of a sudden, such an incident occurs and we all lose our temper and get on the offensive !

If you really want justice to prevail, you elect a president, clean the security forces and track the criminals !
The masses are allowed to react instinctively, but leaders should be the ones leading, the wise ones who know how to calm things down and achieve justice in democratic ways.

Finally, all my respect to those brave men .. may they rest in peace and may God Bless their families.

Inspired from a thread on the LF Official forum.

Feel free to post your stories and experiences.

2i3raf 3adouwak, el souri 3adouwak !

On April 18, 1996 IDF artillery hit a UN compound filled with Lebanese civilians, killing 106 and injuring 116 ( most of the killed were children). Four Fijian United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon soldiers were also seriously injured. [...]

The world condemned this barbaric attack (except the US), but that did not stop Israel from continuing its “Grapes of Wrath” Operation, against the terrorit Hezbollah militia.

Following the attack, Lt.-Gen. Amnon Shahak, Israel’s chief of staff, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 18 defended the shelling: “I don’t see any mistake in judgment… We fought Hezbollah there [in Qana], and when they fire on us, we will fire at them to defend ourselves… I don’t know any other rules of the game, either for the army or for civilians…”

Regardless of whether Hebzollah was using the compound as a hideout and the civilians as a human shield ( he did that repeatdly during the 2006 July war), the attack was a barbaric one and Israel should have been punished for it. However, there is another side that should be considered and that will never get those killed civilians any justice, is the fact that the same Hezbollah who is condeming such attacks was supporting similar terrorits attacks 13 years earlier, but this time against the Americans.

On the 18th of April 1983, a suicide bombing was conducted against he US embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, among them 32 Lebanese and 17 Americans.

What is the difference between this bombing and the Qana ?? None.

What is certain is that the main reason for all Israeli atrocitis in Lebanon for the past 20 years has been Hezbollah, and if you dont remove it, we have no reason to ask for justice and we have every reason to hide when Israelis strike.

The solution ? Disarm Hezbollah’s militia and sign a peace treaty with Israel and let the UN monitor the borders.

(from wikipedia)