Here are some snippets of what Michel Aoun recently said, as he seeks to up the sectarian and divisive rhetoric:
لكن من يدعون الخوف من المقاومة هم الذي قتلوكم ووضعوا لكم المتفجرات
But those who claim fear from the Resistance, they are the ones who killed you and laid explosives for you.
سننتصر في النهاية وسنسيطر على كل الوطن، وسنصبح فئة واحدة وسنصبح الشعب اللبناني فقط. أما الذين يكتبون عنهم أن حاضرهم يخجل من ماضيهم فهم منهم وليسوا منّا
We will be victorious and we will take control of the entire nation, and we will be a single group and we will be become the Lebanese people only. As for those, of whom is written that their present is ashamed of their past, they are of them and not of us.
إسرائيل لن تهاجم لبنان في أي ظرف إلا إذا كانت الموالاة هي التي تحكم لبنان
Israel will not attack Lebanon in any situation unless the current ruling parties are the ones governing.
لقد سمعنا من يقول أن زحلة والأشرفية هي لسعد الحريري
We heard those who said that Zahleh and Ashrafieh are for Saad Hariri.
Israel will attack Lebanon if you vote for March 14, a vote for March 14 is a vote for Hariri, March 14 are murderers and they are killing “you”, and they are not Lebanese. Some of the brainless rhetoric being flung around on the eve of elections.
The only good result for me in these elections is if no one goes to vote in order to send all these idiots a clear message that we are not going to fall for their hate mongering and have had enough. Enough!
