Apparently, Amal, one of Aoun’s allies in the March 8 group, is complaining to Hezbollah about Aoun’s tactics in the Jezine election campaign. They accuse his candidates of using divisive language with sectarian tones to get Christians to vote for him in the upcoming elections.
Dah! Did they just find out that this is how Aoun always wins his elections? He has been doing it since 2005 against March 14, painting a picture of the last 19 years since the end of the civil war as being under the Hariri boot, so to speak, and that he has come to save Lebanon (read the Christians) from the Hariri (read Sunni) tyranny.
He has never lost an opportunity to foment hatred against the Hariri family and their political movement, pinning all the mistakes of the last two decades on them. Aoun and his foot soldiers have even claimed that the Taef was designed for Hariri and by extension the Sunnis. Read this recent article for an example.
Aoun and his stooges conveniently forget that Taef was always a precarious balance between many parties, including the Syrians, Hezbollah and Amal. It may be true that Rafic Hariri was involved in things that are hard to defend, but he was never alone in them and very often his way was not allowed to go ahead.
