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2023-03-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Gemayel refuses a president of 'Hezbollah republic'
[An Nahar] Kataeb party leader Sami Gemayel said Wednesday that Hezbollah will not be able to impose a president on the Lebanese and that such a president would be the president of "Hezbollah's republic" and not of all the Lebanese.

In a presser, Gemayel said that the elected president should have the ability and willingness to negotiate in order to restore illusory sovereignty and solve the problem of Hezbollah's weapons.

"We should go to parliament and elect a president who can unite the Lebanese and who is not imposed on us," he said.

Gemayel decried provocative behavior and attempts to establish superiority over others, amid an unprecedented economic crisis.

During a joint committees session on Tuesday, Amal MP Ali Hassan Khalil had reportedly said to Gemayel that he is a "son of criminals."

"What happened yesterday could have pushed the country to a dangerous place and if I had behaved differently, I don't know where Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
would have been today," Gemayel stressed.

He said that "it is time to look forward but it seems that they are still living in that (war) era."

"We know what war means and we don't want to return to it," he added.

Posted by Fred 2023-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top
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