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People want to dissolve parliament, to withdraw the
Syrian arms, and to bring down
the feudal.
On 1 March 2011. Is it became clear in Lebanese mind that
the withdrawal of weapons from the Syrian terrorists in Lebanon must to
be done ?
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From Lebanese media.
A - the words of MP Antoine Zahra.
Weapons’ withdrawal was the only one missed in Lebanese political life. It
allowed a confiscated democracy in Lebanon and had directed the political game
through intimidation and threats.
According to "Lebanese Forces" member, MP Antoine Zahra, the new words of Prime
Minister Saad Hariri in the issue of weapons are the only ones missed from
Lebanese political life. This allowed a confiscated democracy in Lebanon and had
directed the political game through intimidation and threats. That is why the
Independence Uprising in 2005 had failed their objectives in order to really
enter the State Building Project.
He added: "It is quite clear there is no State in the presence of illegal
weapons, especially when they are owned by a team participating in the political
power “. Pointing out that this present speech is clear and well required to
prepare the ground for real democratic life.
In an interview to Radio "Voice of Lebanon" (100.5), he announced the battle
beginning for the liberation of democratic life from weapons prevalence and
threatening. He stress that the forces of "14 March Group" are in the process of
re-activating the Uprising, which was reflecting the aspirations of civil
society and a wider sector of the Lebanese people who exceed parties' organizations.
He added: "A small group of leaders in the 14 March Group Direction is not our
expected goal". He prefers an expanded leaders’ group including more than the
usual political leaders.
B - Saad Hariri: "Everybody
mistrust you as much all Lebanese hate arms predominance”. Hezbollah's weapons
are a national problem.
February 28, 2011.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri has declared Lebanon will never be a healthy State
as long as the illegal weapons are ready for use against any people of the
country, stressing that the Lebanese are fed up of mistrust, and hate arms
predominance.
Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri began his first day in the opposition
Monday with a blistering attack on Hezbollah, saying the group’s weapons have
become a national problem that was poisoning the political and cultural life
in Lebanon and needed a national solution.
Hariri also accused Hezbollah of using its weapons internally in the past three
years to influence political disputes in its favor, culminating recently with
the ouster of Hariri’s Cabinet and the subsequent appointment of Hezbollah-backed
former Prime Minister Najib Mikati to form a new government.
Hariri’s statement was likely to further deepen the split between the Hezbollah-led
March 8 alliance and Hariri’s March 14 coalition over the problem of the
group’s weapons, a major divisive issue among Lebanese.
Recalling clashes between Hezbollah fighters and other rival gunmen in
Beirut since 2008, Hariri, addressing Hezbollah, said: “We simply decided to
tell you what each and every Lebanese is saying everyday: The Lebanese system
and the economic, social, cultural, political and constitutional life as well
as the right of the Lebanese people to a secure and safe life, will never be
achieved as long as these weapons are ready to be used against your countrymen.”
Hariri was speaking to caretaker ministers, lawmakers and officials of his
Future Movement at his residence in Downtown Beirut. His speech came a day
after the March 14 coalition announced it would not participate in the
Cabinet to be formed by Mikati and vowed to confront what it called the
Hezbollah-led “coup” that resulted in the ouster of Hariri’s Cabinet on Jan.
12.
Hariri pledged not to allow the supremacy of weapons to poison the sincere will
of the Lebanese people who are seeking the truth and justice in the 2005
assassination of his father, statesman Rafik Hariri, and “in their right to
a decent, independent living, and in their pacific and noble defense of their
future and the future of their children.”
Hariri said the March 14 coalition decided to go to the opposition after Mikati
failed to provide answers concerning three points:
- The government’s commitment to end the supremacy of weapons over
political life in Lebanon;
- its commitment to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon;
- and its commitment to the Constitution.
“After a full month, the March 14 parties considered the absence of an
answer to be an answer in itself, or more explicitly, an absence of decision
and an absence of will, and therefore they announced to all the Lebanese that
their place was not in this government,” Hariri said.
Hariri accused Hezbollah of reneging on its promises not to use its arms
internally to settle political differences or withdraw from the government.
Hariri’s Cabinet was brought down following the resignations of ministers of
Hezbollah and its March 8 allies in a long-running dispute over the U.N.-backed
Special Tribunal for Lebanon. “The problem is when you say that these weapons
will not be used internally, and then we find that they are only used internally,
since the ‘glorious day’ on May 7, 2008, and how can we forget the ‘glorious
day,’ the bullying day of the people of Beirut and the mountain,” Hariri said.
He was referring to sectarian street clashes between pro-and anti-government
gunmen in Beirut and in the mountains after Hezbollah’s fighters briefly took
over west Beirut to protest the government’s decision to dismantle the
group’s private telecoms network. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah described
May 7, 2008, as a “glorious day” because it eventually forced the government
to revoke its decision.
The 2008 clashes resulted in the Doha Accord in which the rival factions pledged
not to use violence in resolving political differences or withdraw from the
Cabinet.
Hariri, who was the leader of the parliament majority, accused Hezbollah of
changing the majority “under threat that if some MPs respected the opinion
of their voters, then these weapons are ready to be used against your
countrymen.”
Hariri rejected the use of weapons to impose a Parliament speaker or a prime
minister. “The Lebanese will say ‘it’s ok’ because the weapons are ready to
be used against your countrymen. No. It is not ok. We simply decided to tell
you: No. It is not ok,” he said.
“We want to tell you [Hezbollah] that just because you have weapons, this
doesn’t mean that you are right. The weapons may give control, but they don’t
give a majority. The majority is produced by the ballot boxes, without
weapons. The majority expresses its views in the Parliament, without
weapons,” he said.
He added that the majority of the Lebanese people would take to the streets on
March 14, 2011, to reject “the tutelage of weapons over the Constitution
and national life.”
C – Dori CHAMOUN : “ We said in intervention in Bristol,
yes for tribunal, no for weapons. And people will not remain silent.”
1 March 2011
By Salman Al-Andari.
MP Dory Chamoun said that "the statement issued by 14 March Group, in Bristol,
two days before, has clarified the 14 March Group Position about non
participation in a new government headed by Najib Mikati. This good position
was unanimously taken. We refuse any engagement in a cabinet which does not
respect the International Tribunal for Lebanon or would not resolve Hezbollah weapons
conflict.” He added: “yes for tribunal, no for weapons, in defense of
freedom and democracy in this country which is being exposed under the heaviest
and most dangerous campaigns in history”.
In an exclusive interview with 14 March website Chamoun told: “14 March Group
has explained to Lebanese public opinion the reasons that pushed it to refuse
to participate in the government, and therefore do not care what Prime
Minister Mikati could do”.
CHAMOUN regrets what Mikati said hoping to form a government with one color "to
avoid riot”, adding that "the Prime Minister Mikati apparently doesn’t want to
engage 14 March Forces in a government which had been hijacked by some known
bad parties. The Saad Hariri position was clear that we can not accept a
government that stands against the International Tribunal for Lebanon, and it
is intimidated by armed terrorists. This destroys the foundations of genuine
democracy in Lebanon”.
CHAMOUN thinks the 8 March Group, who appointed Mikati, will surely embarrass
him in the next few days. He criticized strongly the insistence of Michel
AOUN, leader of Change and Reform Bloc, who wants to "seize half the
government," under several banners, saying that " AOUN is not free in his decisions
and he receives orders from Hezbollah and Syria”.
He added: "We will have an uphill battle to confront Hezbollah and every no
legitimacy in this country, after our transition to the ranks of the
opposition. We will make every effort to protect the Lebanese Constitution,
the Taif Agreement, and the State Institutions that suffered doubtlessly
attacks, violations and abuses in recent years. We will defend the powers of
the presidency and the government presidency. "
He predicted popular participation will be "large and distinctive," on 14 March,
2011, "because the people of 14 March will not stand silent and impotent
in face of the enemies’ attacks upon Lebanese entity. Therefore people will be
on our side, supportive of our positions and stick to our principles which
were launched by the massive popular movement in 2005”.
He continued: " 14 March people will strongly participate on 14 March 2011
demonstration, since it is impossible to leave away our issues, our country,
our principles and our future after all the sacrifices we were made over many
years, and after dozens’ deaths of innocent victims, and the assassination of political
intellectual and media leaders."
He said: "Despite all the concessions we have made in the recent period under
well known headings and considerations, today we're going to fight into a
militant and decisive opposition, according to the democracy foundations.
We will not accept to remove Lebanon from the international legitimacy externally,
and the Constitution legitimacy, internally."
And whether President Michel Sleiman would agree to form a government of one
color, and will sign a decree on its formation, CHAMOUN said: "President
Sleiman has reservations on a large number of points associated to his own
authority, he insists to get the Ministry of Interior. While Michel AOUN
refuses to yield some ministries to the President arguing he has no
parliamentary bloc."
