Rahi: Hizbullah's Involvemnet in Syria Divided the Lebanese
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stated that Hizbullah's involvement in the Syrian war has divided and embarrassed the Lebanese between those supporting the move and others opposing it.
“Hizbullah has engaged in the war in Syria without taking into consideration the State's dissociation policy. It has divided the Lebanese upon themselves, some supporting its step and others totally refusing it,” said al-Rahi in an interview on Sky News Arabia on Friday.
The Patriarch pointed out: “When Hizbullah engaged in the Syrian war, it did not do as such upon a State decision. It was a decision taken by Hizbullah itself and the Lebanese are divided about it today.
“The State has clearly announced its dissociation policy in the Baabda declaration,” he emphasized.
“I am a citizen and my fellow partner is a citizen, but I am unarmed and he is. This is abnormal,” he stressed.
The Patriarch lamented saying: “The Lebanese State has not made up its mind on the subject. Had Hizbullah been a militia outside the parliament things wold have been different.”
Hizbullah has deployed thousands of militants to fight alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces against Islamist-led rebels and jihadists and many Hizbullah members have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict.
The party argues that its intervention, which is controversial in Lebanon, was necessary to protect the country from extremist groups and to prevent the fall of Syria into the hands of hostile forces.
11 March 2017, 08:24
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"Hizbullah's involvement in the Syrian war has divided and embarrassed the Lebanese "
He talks about the iranian militia's intervention in Syria as if it is a social event that embarrassed the Lebanese!!!
Your eminence talk about war crimes and massacres and call things as they are.
11 March 2017, 12:26
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Your eminence seems to forget that it was the people of Tripoli and Akkar, that went inside Syria to support the so called Free Syrian army since year 2011 long before Hezbollah intervened.
Or the Oqab Saqr sending in "Milk blankets teddy bears" to the Free Salafi Army, which were infact Saudi funded weaponry.
11 March 2017, 13:43
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The idea that there is a symmetry between few individuals from Akkar and Tripoli who smuggled themselves to Syria to fight and tens of thousands of militiamen from a party whose armed forces dominate Lebanon is a joke.
11 March 2017, 14:32
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A few individuals? They were hundreds and even salafis among the Lebanese Army ranks defected to ISIS.
11 March 2017, 15:04
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OK ... Let us assume hundreds individuals versus tens of thousands. While they were chased and arrested, your militia can move tanks and rockets across the border without any problems
12 March 2017, 00:39
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the Lebanese army went to saida and Tripoli to stop them meanwhile the same army protected Beirut suburbs from retaliation and car bombs coming from Syria. It's what his highness has called divided the Lebanese.
If Iran tomorrow tells you to attack the Lebanese army you will do so, because you are their agents and you won't abide by the state authority. An agent is an agent. Plain and simple.
12 March 2017, 00:39
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the Lebanese army went to saida and Tripoli to stop them meanwhile the same army protected Beirut suburbs from retaliation and car bombs coming from Syria. It's what his highness has called divided the Lebanese.
If Iran tomorrow tells you to attack the Lebanese army you will do so, because you are their agents and you won't abide by the state authority. An agent is an agent. Plain and simple.
11 March 2017, 12:55
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you forgot ya heretic that we know you are practicing the usual takiah rituals.
11 March 2017, 13:02
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You salafis weaknesses have been exploited, such as when you call everyone heretic, you feel you have rightousness and the almighty on your side, yet you are losing battles on every front with the Resistance.
Just as when you use a salafi suicide car drives against a resistance group, the Resistance person will gladly drive himself into that car to save the rest of his brothers.
11 March 2017, 13:02
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Your love for Israel mirrors Yazids love for jews.
This eminence should not forget whom murdered Jesus christ, and betrayed him to the Romans.
11 March 2017, 13:08
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Lavrov: Damascus was 2-3 weeks from falling when Russia intervened
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-lavrov-syria-damascus-idUSKBN15111N
now stop mixing Captagon with Coke.
11 March 2017, 13:14
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Yet it was the Resistance that spearheaded the assault on Aleppo, which achieved the major victory and the fall of the Salafi dreams (Your dreams Yahoudi).
what Lavrov said to justify Russias interventions matters not, with or without Russia the Resistance would've fought til the end no matter the results.
You call yourself a Janoubi, what did your people do to defend the South? You now live in Haifa selling Falafel ya yahoudi?
11 March 2017, 14:19
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Mystics ... Please illuminate us who murdered the Palestinian Jew named Jesus?
12 March 2017, 23:05
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Ya Mystic ya tashmeh, Jesus was also a Jew. It was not a religious thing that he was persecuted by other Jews. The same way that it isn't a religious thing that Hizb thugs like your friends kill other Shiites who protest against Iran's policies. If anything, Hizb are a disgrace to Shia. But that's about as much religious as Hizb can get.
11 March 2017, 10:20
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You can only wonder what would have happened if Hezbollah had NOT secured the Lebanese border from the outside.
Lebanon is safer now than it has been for a long time. And no, it isn't because the Salafist scourge wants to spare us.
11 March 2017, 11:21
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Well put son, I couldn't have said it better myself. Come to think of it, it's exactly what I told everyone back in the 1990s when we went to Bosnia and Herzegovin. I told them "you can only wonder what would have happened if Hezbollah had NOT secured the Lebanese border from the outside. Lebanon is safer now than it has been for a long time. And no, it isn't because the Serbian Christian Orthodox scourge wanted to spare us, duh!". But those fools laughed at me and call me silly as well. But as we all know history was on my side and we kept the Christian Orthodox scourge at bay. Keep up the good work my child, you're worth every penny.
11 March 2017, 18:53
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This is no joke my child, it's serious business securing the Lebanese border from the outside and the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, moi, have been jihading from the outside all over the world since 1982. And don't forget son for every fresh ID you sign in you get a coupon for a free Petit Four from Helwayat al Ekhlas in Chiyah.
12 March 2017, 23:09
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That's 7ilweyet el Khalseen, the patisserie formerly known as Buzat Mir3i on sheri3 3abd il Karim el Khalil, iza bta3mil ma3rouf khayyè Shn...
11 March 2017, 13:13
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but southern and co. said the majority of Christians are supportive of his popular resistance? or could it be the Patriarch is not well informed?
11 March 2017, 13:27
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Or could it be that he has his own political stance, which doesn't reflect that of most Christians, perhaps?
11 March 2017, 13:30
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or could it be you know nothing about what the Christians think and you are here to just spread iranian propaganda as "you are told", perhaps?
11 March 2017, 14:45
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hahahahahahahahaha!
The way you turn things around on their heads make them speechless, dizzy, and bewildered. How you caught Janoubi from negev being unhappy is simply genius!
In other words, you are somesing anazar flamesrower!
11 March 2017, 15:41
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When you don't have a separation between church and state, it destroys both the church and the state. Lebanon's Article 24, which gives half of Parliament to Christians, destroys that wall. I used to joke that there might not be enough Christians in Lebanon to fill those assigned seats. Now I think it's no joke.
11 March 2017, 19:05
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My child be careful of the imperialist Zionist President Donald Trompe, now he has a travel ban on people born in the secular Islamic Republic of Iran next he could start deporting white Amreekans who are loyal to the secular Islamic Republic of Iran. I used to joke that there might not be enough Department of Homeland Security and Border agents to keep all those Iranians, Somalis, Sudanese, Yemenis, Syrians and Libyans out of President Trompe's Amreka. Now I think it's no joke.
11 March 2017, 20:56
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The embarrassment is Lebanon as sellouts bought by the highest bidder.
11 March 2017, 22:42
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His eminence is right, but the division started May 2008 when sewer flooded the capital
12 March 2017, 06:33
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@flamerotten
is that what you understood from Janubi's comment or are you mentally challenged?
