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| Phalange Party: We Won't Legitimize Resistance |
| 2014-03-04 |
| [An Nahar] The Phalange Party The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology. on Monday announced that it will not provide a political cover for Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's military intervention in Syria or for its weapons even if that threatened the collapse of Prime Minister Tammam Salam's cabinet that was formed after an 11-month deadlock. "This resistance has lost its legitimacy and half the Lebanese have major questions over it and therefore there is no consensus over the resistance. Nothing can be imposed on half the Lebanese in the cabinet," MP Sami Gemayel, the party's central committee coordinator, said at a presser. "We won't give any legitimacy to the entity of this resistance through the tripartite (army-people-resistance) equation which allows all the Lebanese to take up arms in all circumstances," Gemayel stressed. He said his party was hoping the cabinet would endorse the "common points" and put the controversial ones aside. "We joined the cabinet in this spirit," Gemayel noted. "We want to delegitimize Hizbullah's fighting in Syria and its possession or arms during this period or else our participation in cabinet would be at the expense of the constant principles as we would be subjecting the entire Lebanese people to bombings," he added. He called on the cabinet to endorse "the content of the Baabda Declaration because that would protect the Lebanese from bombings." "It is impossible to cover up for the principle of no state; let the government collapse and we would go to a caretaker cabinet," Gemayel threatened. "We are avoiding overbidding but the principles do not change and will not change and from now on we won't accept that the state give legitimacy to these arms or to the fighting of Hizbullah or any other group in Syria," he underlined. Gemayel added: "From now on, no ministerial policy statement will legitimize the use of arms in Leb if we are present in cabinet." |
| Posted by:Fred |