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• 1. Doc1559 | January 1st, 2009 at 11:59 pm

  One question :

  What makes Nadim a better rep than his mom solange??????? What did Solange do (in the past 4 yrs) beside warming up the rep seat??

  Feudalism is the worst thing you can have…..

  Thank you NBG_team…

• 2. Anonymous | January 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 am

  Questions:
  1- On whose list does he intend to run ?
  2- What’s his position on the displaced (mhajjareen) from the mountains and Joumblat’s (his ally from March 14) collusion in their misfortune

• 3. Joe | January 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 am

  I am a supporter of Bachir (may he rest in peace) and consider him as a hero.
  However, the idea of having his son Nadim running for parliament makes me wonder… Had Nadim not been Bachir’s son, would he be running for parliament? (I personally don’t think so)
  What did he achieve till now? What are his aspirations if elected? What kind of change does he want to offer me (a potential voter) when the first message he sends by running for parliament is maintaining this “sick” feudal system?
  I would have loved to see him achieve something (social or political) without the help of this heritage before running for parliament…
  I personally think this is a weakness that Aoun will take advantage of…
  Good luck

• 4. charbel | January 2nd, 2009 at 3:58 am

  Who does Mr. Gemayel mean in the following exchange?

  لماذا لم تحاول استعادة قيادة “القوات اللبنانية” كما فعل الشيخ أمين الجميل عندما استعاد قيادة “حزب الكتائب”?
  كل شيء بوقته, وفي النهاية عدنا إلى الأساس وهي “الكتائب”.

  I think a clarification is in order so that we do not misinterpret this statement.

• 5. hochoz | January 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 am

  I second on charbel’s statement…

  Clarification is definitely needed…

  the lebanese forces has changed….for the better… there’s no way we’d let anybody
  bring it back to the dark ages…

  Alla ykhallilna el Dr. Geagea..

• 6. charbel | January 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 am

  I meant “What” instead of “Who”***

• 7. Delta | January 2nd, 2009 at 8:01 am

  Doc

  maybe she did not do much maybe zafatit chere3 bil achrafiyeh bass ma kalafitna 3 10 billion dollars w 1000 atil wtadmir iol bouna il tahtiyeh cheers bro

• 8. Delta | January 2nd, 2009 at 8:02 am

  N

  iza btesmahle his answer 3an iste3edet hizb il ouwet mi2rfe

• 9. jad | January 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm

  hey yesterday i was talkin to a aouni friend he tolde me that poussy’s seat madmounnnnn hes from achrafieh and im not so ma shera3to basss if nbg -team can clear the picture for us by any pollls plzzzzz

• 10. F.A | January 2nd, 2009 at 7:43 pm

  in 2005, wn hizbulla gangs on their mopeds drove to achrafieh and started shooting in the air,shops ,balconies etc… I was amazed that all the achrafieh people stood still!!!!!!!!
  where was Nadim Gmayel??? where r his guys??? I didn’t see any action to the reaction…
  I want to say, if it was Bashir instead, I dought that he would have stood silent.
  when there is real action, we need action, not talk talk talk….

• 11. Anonymous | January 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 pm

  get your facts straight F.A. In feb. 05 it was a group of Sunni fanatics backed by DAR el fatwa and future movement that attacked ashrafieh and threw rocks at churches. Remember geagea’s statement: “these are our allies doing this”
  shame on him and his allies
  to answer your question, sure NBG didn’t say anything, lesh 7ada mn “masi7iyyt” M14 byestsrje yente2id hariri and his movement ???
  … And on that same day aoun signed his MOU with the terrorists… Indeed it was a shameful day for Christians
  Allah yse3edna

• 12. F.A | January 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 pm

  you might be right anonymous, they could be sunnis,chi3as… whatever, and I am not defending DSG statement either.
  All what I am saying, what makes NBG different from the others?? ( except he is the son of late Bashir)
  I do have a question to who knows NBG, because I honestly don’t know, what is his educational background? any political science? law?…??
  because I feel myself stupid in backing a person just because we know his relatives!

• 13. jad | January 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 am

  anyone has about our situation in beirut 1 and about the tashnag influence ill be greatfullll txxxxxx

• 14. hochoz | January 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 am

  N10452

  Could you please put a whole topic about

  Nadim Bachir Gemayel’s right in reclaiming leadership for the lebanese forces?

  I would like to know what everybody thinks about this statement from the article

• 15. Che | January 3rd, 2009 at 6:28 am

  Dr. Geagea is the Leader! End of the Disscussion.

  Let NBG worry about his wardrobe, Gucci glasses and hair gel.

  http://www.lebanesefront.com/Page21.html

• 16. Anonymous | January 3rd, 2009 at 6:36 am

  ya jame3a in this country a party=a family:
  Kataeb= gemayel
  Ahrar= Chamoun
  FPM= Aoun (or Bassil )
  LF= Geagea
  Amal= Berri
  BN= Edde
  PSP= Joumblat
  FM= Hariri
  etc etc etc….
  Wlek tfeh 3ala hek 3a2liyye, shi bi la33e el nafes… Don’t get me wrong, I love Bashir Gemayel and that’s why I’ve been asking about Nadim, but after reading some stuff on the guy (who by the way I don’t even know) I realize more and more that his only program is … HIS LAST NAME.
  You know what…. I’m sticking to my “war2a bayda” BS, ashraflé wou andaflé
  One last word… many years ago when I was still in college (AUB) there were the 1996 elections and the walls of beirut were filled with idiots running for the elections…some very funny guys (I was never able to find out who, keeping in mind the syrian moukhbarat were extremely active during during those cursed days) had put everywhere on the walls pictures of a donkey below which you could read the phrase (in arabic): vote for me, I’m the best candidate…
  So… for those of you who won’t go for the “war2a bayda” thing, you should go ahead and vote for the donkey…you’ll be better off than with any aoun or geagea or gemayel or hariri….
  Take care

• 17. Che | January 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 am

  Anonymous,

  With all due respect, Geagea came from a very modest family with no political background. He was a very young zealot Christian and Patriotic when he joined the Kataeb, whose history speaks for itself transparently. He paid dearly from his youth until he was freed from jail. His life was and still is for the cause. He didn’t climb the echelon of the Lebanese Forces on a silver plate or through inheritance! GEAGEA IS THE EPITOME OF ANTI-FEUDALISM.

  Classifying him as you did with your list is utter ignorance of history and doing great injustice to him!

• 18. Fuziyad | January 3rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm

  Che, eza btesma7lé, geagea, berri, aoun or nasrallah indeed did not inherit the leadershsip still they gained it one way or another on the battlefield, which in my opinion is not very glorious either if not worse than the feudal way…

• 19. Rima | January 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm

  In his interview, Nadim Gemayel emphasized his willingness to stick to the Kataeb Party and although he said kil shi bi wa2tou he doesn’t seem in the mood to confront LF in any way. He is too wise for his age and I think he will be cooperating with LF instead of fighting with them for leadership…I truly beleive that Nadim Gemayel is much more interested in uniting the Christians that in dividing them…

  Bashir Gemayel is a “legend” whether we like him or not…Nadim lost his sister before he was born and when he was born he lost a wonderful father…Nadim is so special in that way…Can you just imagine what the man feels everytime he listens or sees his father in videos? So dramatic…That is the bitter legacy that Bachir left to his son…
  Nadim will be an exceptional leader because he got both the wisdom of his mother and the passion of his father…

  Although I am against “wirateh siyessiyeh”, I fully support NBG and urge all people in Ashrafieh to vote for him.
  God bless you Nadim and good luck for the coming elections

• 20. Rambo | January 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 pm

  Rima,

  At his age his dad was almost running the country.

• 21. Fuziyad | January 3rd, 2009 at 4:16 pm

  right rambo and walid jumblatt was also the same age…but I don’t think lebanon goverened by kids was a success at that time…

• 22. Doc1559 | January 3rd, 2009 at 6:24 pm

  Delta

  We’re talking about the parliament seat here. ya3ne bhanik ana iza wesslet ma3kun la TIZFIT TORA2T only ! when al adiyeh ya delta? when ra7u al chuhada ? la nzafit tora2t w n2oul YES SIR lal hariri ? khalas ya delta khalass ….

  Kelna bi hawa sawa…

• 23. Anonymous | January 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 pm

  che before making accusations and using big words you should understand what I was saying… It’s true that geagea came from a poor family and worked his way up in the party (he did that over several corpses, but that’s for another day…)
  Now he is exactly like any other gemayel or edde or whatever… he acts like the party belongs to him, his own little property that sethrida will eventually inherit. in addition to that he only surrounds himself with yes people, like any other feudal “leader”…
  so, yes LF belongs to the geagea family now.
  PS: same applies to FPM
  take care

• 24. paul | January 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm

  ya 7ilween,yalle ma bi7ibbo ma ysawwitlo wbala nasher ghasil.

• 25. Doc1559 | January 3rd, 2009 at 7:02 pm

  Paul

  Always confront the prb never hide behind it. khayfen min nasher al ghassil? Well, you should inshor ghassil , this way byinchafo ma bitdala ri7itun tala3 e7em e7em eh??

• 26. paul | January 3rd, 2009 at 8:53 pm

  Doc ,always confort the problem?there is no problem to confront.this is democracy and sheikh Nadim has the right to say what he thinks and wants.everyone has the right to criticize his speech and not his his private life.

  ba3den ana 2ilet ya 7ilween!!!

• 27. paul | January 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm

  Che

  ma 7ada meni3 dr. geagea yichtre hair gel

• 28. Pierre | January 3rd, 2009 at 9:51 pm

  I would like to know what he will be doing to strenghten the kataeb party? What changed would he like to see in the party?

  I would like to know his program once elected what are some of the things he wants to push through as far as laws or what he will concetrate on?

  Thanks

• 29. ashrafieh | March 27th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

  HI EVERYBODY NADIM ISN’T BASHIR. BUT WHAT DO U WANT A SYRIAN FOLLOWERS IN ASHRAFIEH?IF BASHIR WAS ALIVE NEVER ACCEPT HE PREFER TO DIE.HE
  ISN’T AS AOUN NEVER CHANGE HIS PRNCIPLES.LET GIVE NADIM A CHANCE TO PROVE US SOMETHING.ITS NOT FAIR.IN ASHRAFIEH 7OULAFA EL AWMIEH?MSH MA32OUL.BE LOGICAL!VOTE NADIM!

• 30. sick | March 27th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

  Funny how this post is on the same topic.

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