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 [...]
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Jumblat’s desperate summersault
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Hezbollah, Jumblat, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East, Syria on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mr lala-land a.k.a. Michel Aoun
Posted in Politics, tagged Aoun, Elections, Lebanon, Middle East, Sectarianism on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
We urgently need an environmental agenda!
Posted in Environment, tagged Beirut, Dbayye, Elections, Lebanon, Middle East, Saida on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lebanon’s environment is in free fall and we urgently need someone to pay attention to this. If our democracy was a balanced one, this issue would be at the top of politicians’ agendas. Instead, the environment is almost unspoken of.
In fact, the reason for the lack of attention is a little more complicated. First, as we have [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Israel hands over cluster bomb map… three years too late!
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Cluster Bombs, Israel, Jewish-Arab Relations, Lebanon, Middle East on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After three years of refusing to hand over maps of where cluster bombs were dropped, Israel finally handed them over this week. Of course, had Israel handed over the maps earlier, countless deaths could have been avoided. Meanwhile, the international community hardly made a peep while Israel took their sweet time for no logical reason other [...]
A traffic jam in Beirut is being taken seriously!
Posted in Politics, tagged Elections, Lebanon, Middle East on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The minister of interior has announced that he wants all road works to be halted until after the elections after an unbearable jam this morning. He even called on people affected by the disruption to file a formal complaint with the authorities. Of course, as anyone in Beirut knows, road works have accelerated in the [...]
Why our taxis stop wherever they want!
Posted in Society, tagged Law and Order, Lebanon, Middle East, Taxis, Unions on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have often wondered why our taxis in Lebanon stop wherever they want to. The reason, I often thought, was that this is simply what they got used to doing and that the lack of order in the country has never been able to put a stop to it; or even worse, that the Lebanese [...]
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 [...]
