Sometimes I get so fed up with this country where so few people are afraid to call things like they are.

Resistance? Are you fucking kidding me???

What kind of resistance has more than half the country resisting it?
What kind of resistance doesn’t even wave the national flag?
What kind of resistance has only one religion allowed in it?
What kind of resistance needs to hide from its own people in its own security zones?
What kind of resistance threatens to chop off the hands and heads of its own people?
What kind of resistance has to threaten to use force to get its name in the ministerial statement?
What Kind of resistance thanks a country that holds over 200 of its citizens prisoners in dungeons?
What kind of resistance needs to fight its own people to prove its political power?
What kind of resistance accuses its own citizens of being traitors if they don’t agree with it?

No one ever said that we don’t need a resistance against Israel.
No one ever said that we don’t need a resistance against Syria.
No one ever said that we don’t need a resistance against Palestinian Naturalization.
No one ever said that we shouldn’t fight to get all our citizens back.

WE ARE NOT TRAITORS. WE ARE NOT ISRAELI AGENTS. WE ARE NOT AMERICAN PAWNS.

WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK YOU FUCKING YELLOW FLAG WAVING TERRORISTS!!!

IT IS TIME FOR US ALL TO RESIST THE RESISTANCE

In an interview with Le Magazine, Dr Geagea sounded optimistic about the upcoming elections. Especially about the Christian elections results.
وكشف جعجع انه تم حسم الانتخابات النيابية في الكثير من المناطق، مؤكداً ان انتخابات 2009 ستكون مسيحياً مختلفة جداً عن نتائج انتخابات 2005

Also he sounded optimistic regarding the LF properties which have been taken away by the old Pro-Syrian Governments during the Syrian occupation.
اين اصبحت الدعاوى مع الدولة بشأن املاك القوات؟
اكثريتها تم حله والكثير منها عاد الينا والباقي لا يزال يحتاج لبعض المعاملات الادارية و لالغط حوله. الدعوى الاساسية التي لا تزال عالقة لكنها ماشية كما يجب هي دعوى المؤسسة اللبنانية للارسال التي تبعا لسرعة القضاء اللبناني سيعود الحق لاصحابه في اقرب وقت

LF needs to get the LBCI back before the elections. Media is a key to success for any elections.

Good Luck!

But what will happen to those freed prisoners until then ?

قدمت كلتة “القوات اللبنانية” ممثلة بالنائبين ايلي كيروز وانطوان زهرا الى مجلس النواب “اقتراح قانون لاعطاء تعويضات او معاشات تقاعد للمعتقلين اللبنانيين المحررين من السجون والمعتقلات السورية”، وجاء في المادة الخامسة من الإقتراح “يعطى المعتقل المحرر الذي قضى في الاعتقال اقل من سنة واحدة أي أقل من 365 يوما، تعويضا مقطوعا مقداره مليونان وخمسمائة ألف ليرة لبنانية”.
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It is indeed a very good move, but shouldnt we have a contingency plan for those prisoners in case this proposal is not accepted ?? Shouldnt the LF raise some money to support them and give them a decent place to stay in ?

How about establishing an official list of the returnees and raising their case to the public ??

And how about taking care of the parents of those still in prisons who have been demonstrating in DT for more than 3 years now without anyone listening to them ?? How about sending few tents to support them and be with them during all this time ?

Such a move is very positive, but one needs to fill all the gaps before proposing something like that, otherwise others will rush to exploit it and point out the drawbacks and missing points.

Anyone would normally say this is as low as he can get, but rest assured Aounimal will find a way to get even lower ..

Aoun Backs Nasrallah: A Leader to Be Followed

He said Nasrallah is the only personality who should be followed.

It is quite ironic to read those quotes and then read this as another article’s title:
Syria For Ending State of War with Israel

Three years now that Dr.Geagea is free ..
Three years now that the LF is still under construction, for the better or for the worse …

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I will refrain from critisizing the mistakes done, i believe i have done enough in the past year .. i just have few questions to ask and one suggestion for next year or maybe this year ( if its not too late ).

Any successfull and respectable company, institution or organization reviews its performance on a yearly basis and comes up with a report showing its achievements, its mistakes and even publishes public reports for everyone to see.

Credibility is the key to success and efficiency as well, and i strongly suggest that the LF be a pioneer among Lebanese parties and start being transparent on all issues and show to its supporters and the Christians in general what it is achieving and where it went wrong ..

The minister of Justice is on the LF’s side, i cant think of a better opportunity to clean the records and ask for the reopening of all cases that the LF were falsly accused of, in addition to other cases opened in the past 3 years.

Elections 2009 are closing in, and if the LF keeps on operating that way ( added to all M14 Christian parties), i hardly see any major change in the balances.

I will leave questions to be addressed to the LF for a different post.

Mabrouk Hakim your freedom.

This week, Lebanon’s new national unity government is slated to announce its ministerial statement (bayan waziri), the policy document that will define Beirut’s working parameters and agenda through the spring 2009 elections. For the pro-West majority March 14 coalition, the priority will be to incorporate into the statement a reference to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1701, which prohibits weapons movement to Hizballah and expands government sovereignty throughout Lebanon. Hizballah, for its part, will look to maintain the legitimacy of “the resistance.” Although March 14 still maintains a government majority, three years of hostility and self-inflicted wounds have left the ruling party dramatically weakened, making it unclear whether the coalition will be able to prevent Hizballah from consolidating further political gains.

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An Update on the Syrian prisoners issue.

Walid el Moallem promised during his visit to close the issue within weeks only..

I dont believe that pig but lets wait and see. It is a shame Lebanese are forgotten in such an unhuman environment …

We have ourselves to blame as much as the government for not supporting the parents who have been demonstrating for 3 years non-stop.

A title that says it all ..

Hizballah Terrorist Samir Kuntar Basks in Freedom While Syria Tortures Innocent Lebanese

One lebanese proverb says “el cheghel mich 3eb” and Aoun has been applying that proverb quite efficiently ..

Some people keep nagging why i critisize mostly the LF or M14, and i’ve repeadtly said that i do so because i care about those, because i know what they are capable of …
As for M8 parties, i also know what to expect from them and specifically from Aoun, who has been working very efficiently in the past 20 years or so to destroy Christians ..

Now intentionally or unintentionally we can not be sure, but one sure thing is that he is not letting any chance of weakening the Christians further go .. and he does it in style and somehow manages to convince a large portion of people that he did a positive thing ..

I cannot find though a better comparison than Aoun to a prostitute, but not any prostitute who is doing her job for the money, a proud prostitute who convinced herself that her job is a good honorable job and improves it in any means possible.

Aoun is portraying this whole After-Doha situation as if he won, as if Christians won ..
He was fine with the invasion of Beirut for some absurd reasons that deny any common sense ..
He was as excited as Nasrallah about the return of Quntar the terrorist for god knows what reason ..

He has become such a devoted HA prostitute that he is starting to believe anything he is told, to an extent that i have heard a Aounist say that Christians without Shiites cannot exist, that we are bound to them as a strategic ally ..

The truth is though :

HA is pleasing Aoun in ways to help him score points against his Christian rivals, knowing that he is controlling him now and that more internal fights will weaken further the Christians and strenghen HA and his allies.

HA doesnt want ministers, Aoun is happy he got extra seats and goes on TV saying he returned Christian rights.

Whatever HA says or does, the next day we see similar quotations and mostly idiotic ones from Aounits ..

Thats all for now

I had mixed feelings watching George Adwan the LF VP saluting with warmth HA members and Nabil Qaouk and rushing to take pictures with an extremely enlarged smile !

I had feeling of disgust for seeing how far this “new” LF has gone in disrespecting our principles, our struggle, our Cause and our martyrs and i was laughing as well watching him humiliate himself this way ..

I am not sure if it was planned to send Adwan while Hakim replies with a sort of harsh statement today.

Allah yi2awwik ya Adwan … wou Allah yi2awwe hal Ouwet feek ..

What we have witnessed in the past three years is a gradual loss of reason, rationality & common sense among the Lebanese people.

A simple overview of the events that occured during this period show us that Lebanon’s mere existence & continuity is becoming more and more a big question mark and yesterday’s events were honestly disturbing to watch to say the least, but surprisingly, a large group of Lebanese were ecstatic about it and for reasons that violate any sense of rationality or common sense.

And what i am talking about is not related at all to politics, but to simple issues that we endure in our everyday’s life.

Regardless of all political affiliations, any rational person can simply sit and watch the consequences of his acts and they ended up maximizing his satisfaction and his family’s and his country’s as well.

Lebanon has two neighbors, Israel & Syria. Israel left Lebanon in 2001 ( Shebaa farms is a highly disputable issue) and Syria left it in 2005 ( Also questionable since it is still present in the Bekaa).

Lebanon is split into two groups, M14 & M8, and the bigger difference btw them is their competency ( am not talking political differences here). M8 is led by a very well financed and organized militia and M14 are still recovering from years of political bankrupcy under the Syrian hegemony.

However, competency is not necessarily a positive thing when its aim is a harmful and destructive one, and here lies the irrationality of many M8 members who will blindly support any decision as long as it isnt made by M14 regardless of its consequences on themselves and their compatriots.

- How can you explain a war whose results destroyed Lebanon and got it back 15 years behind ? and blaming it on others is one lame excuse since it takes two to tango and whomeve gets the blame is irrelevant since war is always losing for everyone. ( except destruction seekers & blood bath lovers ).

- How can you be ok with hundreds of thousands of young promising Lebanese leaving the country because of this war ? and not even bother to realize the damage done ( except if that is ur ultimate aim).

- How can you not reconsider invading Beirut’s downtown and ruining the businesses of hundreds of families ? What if it was you who had that business ? ( except if you have no ambition for a prosperous life or a life at all and want to stay dependant on others).

- How can you defend a decision to invade cities and spread fear & terror among your Lebanese brothers & sisters ? ( except if you only care about yourself).

I will not continue the list, but finally i wish to add one point:

- How can you cheer a criminal after the civil war you endured and the atrocities you witnessed from those same politicians ruling now ? ( most of them at least) What possible reason can drive you to welcome with such warmth a lebanese who fought with Palestinians ( who *****ed up your country) and who ended up destroying a family by killing 2 of its members and causing the death of a third member ( 2 year old kid)

I am again talking common sense and not politics, and to confirm all the above, here is a quote from what that criminal said today ..

القنطار: من يعتقد أنه بتحرير مزارع شبعا أو الأراضي اللبنانية يستطيع أن ينهي الصراع مع إسرائيل فهو واهم ، لوتركناهم لن يتركونا وهدف سلاح المقاومة هو شبعا وما بعد شبعا وما بعد شبعا

The man you are cheering wants to drag us into an endless fight with Israel. Now how can any father or mother or husband or hard working employee or succesfull student read such a statement and not see it wrong ?

Someone enters your house, you welcome him, next thing he wants to mess up your life and you are just fine with it ??

It may be the political tensions, or a major depression hitting this Lebanese people, but to me it is far more than that, it is the Lebanese ego and twisted mentality that Lebanese are so proud of that ended up messing their brains and the outcome is one pile of human beings behaving like primitives in a cave.

We have a **** up economy, half of our youth left, our country is polluted, we only live to eat & party & arguil & smoke, and whomever is left in this rotten country thinks he knows all about politics and cant be bothered.

Now i will be expecting major ignorant replies as soon as i post, but they will provide a strong proof for all i wrote, so its good enough for me.

Cheers

From the Beirutspring

Forget what Speaker Berri said to PM Seniora about him “wasting” the Ministry of Justice by giving it to the Lebanese Forces. Professor Ibrahim Najjar, the LF’s choice for the seat, commands great respect in Lebanese legal circles, even in those related to Mr. Berri.

What sets Mr. Najjar aside is his field of specialization. Mr. Najjar wrote many books and treatises on domestic issues with a distinct libertarian emphasis. A quick look at his impressive bibliography and you’ll understand why women’s groups like the Campaign for Arab Women’s Right To Nationality will be salivating at his nomination.

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For those who told me i was making up things .. just watch and enjoy

( Video provided by a member .. thank you)

After all the work done by Sheikh Pierre Gemayel to relaunch the industrial sector in Lebanon and paralyzed after his assassination, he is replaced by Ghazi Z3aytir.

Z3aytir is indeed excellent in the industries field, specifcally in the production of heroine, cocaine and their supplements ..

This is how we paid hommage to Pierre’s work.

I understand Aoun accepting that, since he never showed any respect for Sheikh Pierre nor for himself anymore, but how can Amine accept that ?

Chou khasso Elie Marouni bil siye7a ? dont we have a proper minister for the industry ?? do i need to run the names ?? ya 3ayb el shoum ..

Here is the full interview.

Can someone please explain to me this part ? How worse can this get ? What the hell did the LF agree on doing to get into this strategic alliance ??

الموضوع ليس مقارنة. ولكن في السياسة يجب اللحاق باللعبة الى موقعها الصحيح. والعماد عون يحاول، خلافاً للواقع، ان يسوّق ان السنّة يريدون ان ينتزعوا حقوق المسيحيين وان الدروز يسعون الى «أكل حصتّهم». وهذا انطباع نريد ان نُزيله لانه غير صحيح. وإزالة هذا الانطباع يحتاج الى خطوات عملية. وشئنا ام أبينا فان هذه الخطوة (خمسة وزراء من حصة مسيحيي الاكثرية) على مستوى تشكيل الحكومة، هي التي تحسم ان كل ما يُطرح على هذا الصعيد غير صحيح. ومن هنا تمسُّكنا بهذه الخطوة، فهناك معركة شعبية يجب ان نربحها، وثمة أناس ينبغي ان نتوجّه اليهم وان نبرهن لهم بالدليل الحسي عدم صحة ما عمل السوريون على مدى 15 عاماً على زرعه في العقول من ان المسلمين يأكلون حقوق المسيحيين وان السنّة يريدون المسّ بحقوق الموارنة، وسواها من سياسة تأليب اللبنانيين على بعضهم البعض التي يكمل فيها العماد عون للأسف ما بدأه السوريون.

Walla ya Hakim i can assure you it wasnt the Syrians who put that thought in my mind, but the Lebanese Forces and its thought and the reasons why YOU WENT TO JAIL confirmed to me what i was thought ..

The LF who warned against dhimmitude is promoting it now ..

Allah yer7am el chouhada .. again & again & again ..

Hourray ! We have a government at last !

After weeks & weeks of tensions & talks and negociations, here is the fruit of the corruption & incompetence of our political class, a government not less than 90% incompetent with such a shameful lineup (with some exceptions as always):

I will list the names as mentioned in Naharnet:

I wont bother mention “wouzara el dawoule” because the mere existence of such a seat is a sign of how corrupted we are, here is their list for those interest.
نسيب لحود وزير دولة
جان أوغاسابيان وزير دولة
خالد قباني وزير دولة
زهير بكداش وزير دولة
ابراهيم شمس الدين وزير دولة
يوسف تقلا وزير دولة
وائل أبو فاعور وزير دولة
علي قانصو وزير دولة

Back to the real ministers :
Maronite Ministers:
Ziad Baroud (manno 2adda)
Tony Karam (good choice).
Gebran Bassil and Mario Aoun (what a joke).

Greek Orthodox ministers:
Issam Abu Jamra ( VP, maskhara)
Elias Murr ( good at his job)
Ibrahim Najjar (excellent choice)
Tareq Mitri (excellent choice) but ministry of information is a third world ministry only.

Catholic ministers:
Elie Skaff ( being a felle7 doesnt make you a minister except in Lebanon).
Raymond Audi (excellent choice) but i would have declined the offer if i was him.

Druze:
Talal Arslan ( zbelit el moujtmaa3)
Ghazi Aridi ( Loyal but incompetent)

Sunnis:
Fouad Saniora ( te3teer)
Bahia Hariri ( Jnoud el Sit ?)
Mohammed Safadi ( good choice)

Shiites:
Mohammed Fneish ( zbele)
Ali Qanso ( Ya ma7la el zbele)
Mohammed Jawad Khalifa ( good choice)
Fawzi Salloukh and
Ghazi Zoayter. ( zbelten kbar)

Armenians: Jean Ogassapian and Alain Taborian.

I am not sure why would anyone take over EDL honestly if he doesnt have a serious plan.

In General, a bunch of incompetents ( with few exceptions) trying to survive those few months till the next elections.

Clashes have been ongoing for weeks now in the North, causing tens of kills and hundreds of wounded, and most importantly great material damages.

Who was fighting who ?

No one can claim it was Hariri financing militia men to cause riots for electoral purposes. We’ve seen what his so-called “militia” was capable of in Beirut. The man will never opt for military confrontation, it’s not his policy.

But honestly, its quite demeaning for the Lebanese people to read such a thing.
بتوجيه من رئيس كتلة “المستقبل” النائب سعد الحريري، باشر “تيار المستقبل” في البقاع الأوسط، تسليم المتضررين من أهالي بلدات سعدنايل وتعلبايا وجلالا والجوار تعويضات مالية عن الخسائر المادية التي لحقت بهم من جراء الاعتداءات المسلحة لميليشيا “حزب الله” على هذه المنطقة مطلع الشهر المنصرم

This flagrant abuse of people’s misery to prepare for Elections 2009 is a quite common trend in Lebanon and is one of the key reasons this political class is staying in power.
I have nothing against using money for political purposes, as in promoting your electoral program or convincing the people of your intentions, but buying them like they are for sale is shameful, yet the people accept it.

You tell me they are poor and needy, i tell you most of them got poor by trusting those leaders they had and voting for them against few bucks. The blame is on the people as much as it is on the leaders. Any people capable of having a M14 revolution and liberating himself from savage invaders such as the Syrians can rise above money bribery and speak up for itself.

After comparing the Lebanese cabinet to the Israeli one, lets compare the number of minister we have compared to other countries.

Knowing that Lebanon is a 4 million people country with a very low GDP, we managed somehow to make a cabinet of 30 “so-far-useless” ministers.

France with its 65 million habitants has almost 20 ministers.
Spain with its 40 million habitants has 24 ministers.
Germany with its 80 million habitants has 14 federal ministers.

Three small examples that say it all ..

Why do we need 30 ministers ? what is this “Wazir dawoule” position all about ? a minister that only gets paid for doing nothing ? Do you imagine the costs of security and all related issues to a minister that the government is undertaking ??

This country needs 10 ministers max, yet instead we have 30 and why ? no one knows.

Another dissapointing outcome of the strategic alliance and a very bad call by Hariri to keep his share of Christians Mps wou lek meen Ghattas Khoury !!

LF will have one minister and Kornet Chehwan none ..
Hakim in his PC today explained the situation, not very convincingly though ..

This is a major drawback for the upcoming 2009 elections and another advantage given to Aoun.

It looks like we are gonna have a government after all, but of course be prepared for last minute surprises from Aoun.
Berri came back from his trip to represent Lebanon in the Francophonie summit, not sure how humiliating this representation would have been to Lebanon.

Aoun will not get what he asked for, Ministry of interior & defense will remain for the president, instead his bloc is getting 5 ministers and the LF supposebly getting 2 ministries.

As for who gets what ? its still unclear till now but LF most probably are gonna get justice & tourism.

What i am interesting in is the bayan wizari now and how humiliating it will be to M14 if there is no mention of dialogue to resolve HA’s weapons.