Walid Jumblat surprised everyone with his recent statements regarding his membership in the March 14 political grouping. However, Jumblat’s move is more than a political switch-over or change of heart. It is part of a scheme to blackmail him into returning to the pro-Syrian camp, and the price he is being asked to pay for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hezbollah’
Jumblat’s desperate summersault
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Hezbollah, Jumblat, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East, Syria on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We all need to say sorry!
Posted in History, Politics, Society, tagged Christians, Constitution, Democracy, Druze, Hezbollah, Jumblat, Lebanon, Middle East, Peace, Reform, Sectarianism, Sunnis on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of these days we, the Lebanese, need to realize that we must apologize to one another for all the mistakes and “sins” we committed against one another as various groups and sects in the country. This is the one thing no one has really ever done. Today, we continue to live out our fears [...]
Perfecting the “traitor rhetoric”
Posted in Politics, tagged Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Resistance on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We always hear about the “traitor rhetoric” in Lebanese politics. Nothing exemplifies this more than the recent uncovering of Israeli spies. Apparently, one spy is thought to have links to the Hariri’s Future Movement. Hezbollah wasted no time in jumping on this as proof that the Future Movement are in cahoots with the enemy and [...]
What happened in May 2008
Posted in Politics, tagged Hezbollah, Jumblat, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East, SSNP on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last year Lebanon was on the verge of a new civil war when on May 7, 2008, Hezbollah and other pro-Syrian militias entered west Beirut and wreaked havoc. In the following days, Hezbollah and the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party (SSNP) went on the rampage in Aley and the Chouf.
A recent Now Lebanon article tells in [...]
Detlev Mehlis clarifies the issues
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Detlev Mehlis, Hariri, Hariri Case, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East on May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This morning Now Lebanon published an article in which the former investigator into the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, Detlev Mehlis, explained some of the facts surrounding the investigation. Most importantly, he dismissed criticism coming form the March 8/Hezbollah camp that the investigation has been politicized.
The pro-Syrian “opposition” has been celebrating the release recently of the four heads of security that [...]
The Hezbollah trap
Posted in Politics, tagged Democracy, Hezbollah, Islam, Lebanon, Middle East, Religion, Resistance on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today there are many who argue that giving Hezbollah the right to operate freely in the country is a must, either for the purpose of defending the country against Israel, or simply because they represent a segment of the population we do not want to sideline and risk plunging the country into civil war.
The argument [...]
Hezbollah’s true intentions are revealed!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Egypt, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week, Hezbollah’s true intentions were revealed when Egypt uncovered Hezbollah’s activities on its own soil. Hezbollah appeared to deny the serious accusations leveled by the Egyptian authorities, but in fact went on to admit that the person arrested there was indeed a member of Hezbollah, and that he was there on official Hezbollah business. [...]
What arrogance!
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Hezbollah, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I am not a supporter of Aoun or March 8 for that matter. That much is clear by now. However, I find it extremely arrogant and stupid the way March 14 people tell Aoun supporters that their leader’s alliance with Hezbollah is a mortal mistake and goes against all the values that the Christian [...]
March 14 and fighting Israel
Posted in Politics, tagged Gebran Tueni, Hezbollah, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East, Saniora on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has become common currency today that March 14, since they oppose Hezbollah’s “right to bear arms” is also opposed to standing up to, even fighting, Israel. That, however, is not the case. Hezbollah’s most effective myth has been to convince the Lebanese people that there is only one possible way to stand up to [...]
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 [...]
