Gemayel: Lebanon is Occupied and We're Living under Hizbullah's Tutelage

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Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel decried Wednesday that “Lebanon is occupied” and that the Lebanese “are living under Hizbullah's tutelage.”

“Stability should be accompanied by sovereignty, freedom and real democracy, and unfortunately they are asking us today to choose between freedom and stability in the vein of the Syrian era,” Gemayel said in an interview on Future TV.

“We are living under Hizbullah's tutelage over Lebanon and a local party does not have the right to impose its agenda on all Lebanese,” he added.

Commenting on calls for stability that followed Prime Minister Saad Hariri's shock resignation from Riyadh, Gemayel said: “We all want stability but it should not be an excuse to force Lebanese to live under tutelage.”

“We have not forgotten what happened on May 7, (2008) when (Hizbullah's) weapons were used domestically. The weapons are put on the table and may be used at any given moment,” Gemayel added.

“Lebanon is occupied, the state's decision is hijacked and the Lebanese are not the masters of their fate. The presidential vote was the best example,” he went on to say.

As for Hariri's unusual resignation from Saudi Arabia, which he reversed last week, Gemayel said he “did not like the manner in which Hariri resigned from outside the country.”

“Hariri is apparently clinging to the settlement and this is something I'm still against,” Kataeb's chief added.

“Our problem with the settlement is that it is a settlement built upon interests, not a vision for the country,” he explained.

Hariri had said Monday that he would resign if Hizbullah refuses to accept a new power-sharing arrangement for Lebanon.

The premier announced he was resigning Nov. 4, but walked it back after returning home last week.

The original announcement, made from the Saudi capital of Riyadh, was widely seen as orchestrated by Saudi Arabia to pressure Lebanon's politicians into taking stronger measures to contain Hizbullah's influence. Hariri said Monday he wanted to send a "positive shock" across Lebanon through his resignation, and denied that Saudi officials forced him to resign.

Hariri has demanded that Hizbullah remove itself from regional conflicts, from Syria to Iraq and Bahrain and Yemen. Hizbullah denies playing a military role in Yemen but has fighters in both Iraq and Syria.

Comments 15
Thumb gebran_sons 29 November 2017, 23:34

Finally a courageous voice spelling the obvious. Anyone protecting or defending a criminal militia working for the interest of criminal regimes and holding Lebanon hostage to Iran's regional ambitions is committing high treason. Hizbollah's cost to the Lebanese economy in lack of growth, instability, isolation, and exodus of multinational firms is in the hundreds of billion dollars, not to mention making a mockery of independence, sovereignty, justice, freedom and democracy.

Missing humble 30 November 2017, 04:08

Not only TUTELAGE, but dictatorship, threats, corruption and gangsterism...

Missing humble 30 November 2017, 03:49

We do not want to live with Ebola. Let us make a referendum.

Thumb thepatriot 30 November 2017, 03:59

Bravo Sami!!!!!!!!

Thumb thepatriot 30 November 2017, 03:59

Finally! A man with balls and no fear to speak the truth!

Missing humble 30 November 2017, 04:10

Yes. Courageous, honest and patriot.

Missing humble 30 November 2017, 04:16

Aounallah was shamefully received at airport by Assistant Director of Protocol...
... not even an Italian Minister...
what a shocking reception!!!

zero consideration for a servant to Ebola.

Default-user-icon Eli (Guest) 30 November 2017, 05:10

Please be careful,, Theyll kill you like they killed so many prominent lebanese people, including your own.

Thumb liberty 30 November 2017, 07:44

Talking about the occupation of Lebanon by the iranian terrorist militia is not enough anymore. Concrete steps have to be taken starting with refusal to share power and giving them cover in any government. If that fails, then civil disobedience. Last resort, take up arms and let the house fall on top of everybody.

Thumb gigahabib 30 November 2017, 14:51

Like the other Phalangists, he would prefer Israeli occupation.

Thumb Mystic 30 November 2017, 19:42

Like another Phalangist, he will lick Israeli shoes and call himself a good Lebanese.

He is a coward like all the others, he is worthless. Only a big mouth like his father, without Israel and America those phalangist are like kittens or Salafis.

Thumb Mystic 30 November 2017, 20:11

Sayed Hassan fights the Israeli enemy Lebanon however he can. Israeli is the enemy of Lebanon, you Hasbara folks have to remember that, because no Israeli is welcome INSIDE lebanon, you would be jailed for life if you entered here.

Gemayel gets paid to say these things, but without Hezbollah then Gemayels head would be on a spike if ISIS or Nusra got their hands on him.

Thumb Mystic 30 November 2017, 20:13

All Christians, Druze etc. Would be dead if not for Hezbollah.
You claim Hezbollah controls Lebanon, but do you see Christians beheaded or other sects killed? Hezbollah does not kill people for their religion, that is a politic we have, and an ideology aswell.

The Lebanese Army controls Lebanon, everybody knows that.
When I drive everyday, it is a Lebanese Army checkpoint that checks my ID, not Hezbollah.
So remember that.

Thumb Mystic 30 November 2017, 19:45

Any Lebanese that supports Israeli occupation, is a traitor of Lebanon and deserves to perish.

Thumb Knight 30 November 2017, 21:18

and the giga irani prefers iranian occupation