Geagea: Hizbullah Trying to Deviate Attention from Real Cause of Crisis

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday charged that Hizbullah’s efforts are focused on “deviating attention from the real cause of the crisis” in the country.

Speaking at a meeting with a student delegation, Geagea blamed the country’s compounded crisis on the rule of Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement over the past 10 years.

“Hizbullah and the FPM do not see that the problem is in the ruling authorities and (President Michel) Aoun is still delivering speeches about the utopian state and fighting corruption, as if he has nothing to do with all that is happening, and as if he has not been president for the past five years and one of the ruling pillars for the past 10 years,” the LF leader added.

Hizbullah, meanwhile, is “making lectures about proper behavior and aiding the people, attributing the crisis to an American siege on Lebanon, because its supporters are used to this rhetoric,” Geagea went on to say.