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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Berri’
Even his allies accuse him of dirty tricks
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Berri, Elections, Hariri, Lebanon, March 14, March 8, Middle East, Sectarianism, Sunnis, Syria on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aoun is Lebanon’s Hugo Chavez
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Berri, Corruption, Government, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Middle East on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michel Aoun is to Lebanon what Hugo Chavez was to Venezuela before the latter became the president of that country. Aoun, like Chavez, has marketed himself as the only answer to a corrupt system of government. He is also a populist. His solutions to the corruption in Lebanon are sometimes childishly simple. If he ever [...]
Officials or children?
Posted in Politics, tagged Berri, Lebanon, Middle East, Saniora on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When will our officials grow up? I could not believe what I read today in the news.
أصدر رئيس مجلس النواب نبيه بري بيانًا قال فيه: “كنت اريد إرسال توضيح لصحيفة “الأخبار” التي تفردت بنشر الخبر، ولكن بعد أن قرأت رد دبشليم الملك “الرئيس السنيورة” ووزيره بيدبا الفيلسوف شطح تراجعت عن التوضيح”.
بيان بري كان تعليقًا على [...]
Aoun’s sectarianism is sickening!
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Berri, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East, Sectarianism on September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today we hear from Aoun that we should not let the recent downing of a military helicopter and the killing of its pilot influence the political solution to be reached regarding Hezbollah’s arms. Then we hear almost in the same breath a new claim that the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) is over-hiring and [...]
