Mr lala-land a.k.a. Michel Aoun

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 [...]

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We all need to say sorry!

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 [...]

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Even his allies accuse him of dirty tricks

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 [...]

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The Jewish sect in Lebanon to be renamed

The Jewish sect in Lebanon has since the 1930s been known officially as the “Israeli” sect. According to the Minister of Interior, this naming was a confused translation of the original French term for “Jewish” and it preceded the creation of the Israeli state. As a result, Jews in Lebanon were referred unintentionally as Israeli, [...]

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Jumblat’s comments

Walid Jumblat was lambasted this week for comments he made during a closed-door discussion he had with some local Druze leaders which was caught on film. Yesterday he went ahead and minimized the significance of those comments and tried to mend fences. What was it he said exactly? According to a clip on YouTube, here [...]

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Aoun represents Christian seperation

I am starting to realize how much Aoun represents the bulk of the Christians in Lebanon. The reason: because he voices an often hidden but always present streak in Christians to see themselves as separate from the rest of the nation. Aoun today is the true successor of the leadership that went against the Hariri governments in [...]

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The 2009 elections: some numbers

The Lebanese look forward to parliamentary elections in June of this year. The 128 seats in the Majlis Al-Nuwab, or parliament, will all be up for re-election. The elections will take place under a law agreed to last May in Doha, Qatar, when the Lebanese parties resolved a long-running dispute on a whole bunch of [...]

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Aoun’s sectarianism is sickening!

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 [...]

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Time to standardize Lebanese

I think its time to standardize the Lebanese language. No, not to piss off March 8. I actually think its an important step in our nation’s development. We all identify with our language as that which we express ourselves most comfortably in. We also see that despite it being an offshoot of Arabic, Lebanese is [...]

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