Al-Rahi Met with Abu Arz in Cyprus
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi met with the founder of the Guardians of the Cedars party, Etienne Saqr, during his visit to Cyprus, An Nahar daily reported on Tuesday.
Saqr, 74, who goes by the nom de guerre of Abu Arz, has been living in the island state since 2000 when he escaped his hometown of Ain Ibel on the border with Israel similar to thousands of Lebanese who fled following the liberation of south Lebanon that year.
Saqr has received a death sentence for collaborating with Israel in addition to other judicial rulings linked to the case.
But Abu Arz has denied his collaboration and said in a not very recent interview in reference to Syria that “when dictatorial regimes occupy a certain country, they seek to abolish their foes either through a military liquidation or through the judiciary.”
“We thought that these rulings would fall through the collapse of the occupation in 2005,” he said in reference to the withdrawal of the Syrian army in the aftermath of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 14, 2005 assassination.
“Today’s authorities are in one way or another a continuation of the rule that was present before the liberation” of the South, he had said in the interview.
Guardians of the Cedars activists in Beirut confirmed to An Nahar that the meeting between al-Rahi and Saqr took place, saying Abu Arz has been oppressed since 1990 and is paying the price of his anti-Syrian stances.
Meanwhile, al-Rahi is scheduled to visit the northern port city of Tripoli on Saturday and Sunday.
14 February 2012, 09:19
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being anti syrian or anit palestinian does not allow you to collaborate with genocidal zionist militia.
it's like choosing the worse evil.
14 February 2012, 13:15
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Aoun was accused with being a Zionist you filthy moron but then money changed hand and he declared his loyalty to Iranian cash.
Aldo your filthy mother and father threw rice at the Israeli army liberating then from the PLO instead of using this rice to feed you and your filthy twenty seven siblings.
14 February 2012, 15:48
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Jabal you are either ignorant or just talk to talk. remember that you muslims supported the palestinians in 75 and wanted to kill every Christian. If Lebanon was neighboring Finland, than thats who the Christians of Lebanon would have allied with. unfortunately we are surrounded by MUSLIMS and Jews. That limits our allies list big time... Would like to remind you that we have no problem with the Jewish religion. It's you muslims who have problem with all other religions.
14 February 2012, 10:39
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jabal amel, where is the 'resistance' to defend against syrian violations of our borders? you can't 'resist' one agressor yet applauce another aggressor.
14 February 2012, 11:11
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During war, my enemies enemy is my friend. Its plain and simple.
When and if the Syrian and Iranian regime changes, the same will be said about those the fought to protect them.
Its a vicious circle.
14 February 2012, 12:36
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jabalamel
After listening to you, Collaborating with Satan would be an envy..
Shove a sock in it; Please
14 February 2012, 12:47
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Liberation? What liberation? The South was taken over and occupied by the THUG Militia of Hezbollah and Amal. Mind you, it STILL is occupied...
14 February 2012, 13:04
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Regarding the picture, I wonder how his relationship with Michel Aoun is these days?
14 February 2012, 13:25
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Hezbollah and Aoun support to failing regimes like Syrian and Iranian is a complete conspiracy against the Lebanese nation, the failure to provide Lebanese people with electricity is another. This behave was tested before by Hezbollah when they drove Lebanon to unwanted war with the Zionist regime and like Aoun's war when he was in power against the Syrian regime loosing Baabda and the killing of thousands of Lebanese people, history has tested the failing policy of these politicians, so lets ask the Lebanese people to ban them from politics.
14 February 2012, 15:03
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slash, israel is the root of all this division and internal conflicts. Its an alien and as such collaboration with any arab country is not the same as collaborating with israel.
14 February 2012, 15:37
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so this guy, abu arz, is anti syrian but has a picture of aoun on his wall (look at the photo)? doesn't make sense.
14 February 2012, 16:16
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what is the big deal, come back to Lebanon. you should get a max of 2 years in prison just like fayez Karam
14 February 2012, 19:49
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the filthy zionist media terrorists are very furious because their friend cannot come back to lebanon, and they also hallucinate about our glorious resistance occupying south lebanon.
why don't you send your incompetent militia and liberate it? after all, you still hallucinate about victory in 2006, so it shouldn't be a problem?
chicken entity.
14 February 2012, 20:30
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give us the guns and we will obliterate hizballa and jabal's family now
14 February 2012, 22:55
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this answering machine is even more retarded than one that calls itself "peace".
14 February 2012, 21:27
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The only thing I liked in this article is the frame picture behind Abu Arz :)
14 February 2012, 23:12
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@Habal, @Cookie: Call Abu Arz a traitor but I would do the same that he did and will work with the Israeli if your hizb and Palestinian try to to burn and destroy the Southern towns. This hero had to put up with all your filth and crap during 30yrs of war, just like you joined Iran he joined Israel, Jordan and Egypt enjoy a peaceful relationship with Israel and so is Abu Arz and his towns that he was responsible for. The time will come when he(Abu Arz) should be recognized and given stars for protecting the towns/citizens in the South for years.
15 February 2012, 00:03
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Sophia, don't get your hopes up, Abu Arz woke up to Aoun's real agenda, he no longer backs him up.
Abu Arz is feared by many because he was the only politician who believed in Lebanese Nationalism at the time.
15 February 2012, 00:43
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The great patriarch is now approaching what used to be the red lines. He is holding talks with people whom are great retarded regime (and the dictator regime next door) deems unfit.
God bless the patriarch, and I hope he doesnt meet the same fate as those great people before him; mainly Imam Sader, Mufti Khaled, Bachir Jemayel, Jubran Touayni, and Pierre Jemayel
17 January 2013, 20:16
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Abu Arz, Sheikh Bashir and Commandant Samaha and many more were all HEROES. There was neither collaboration or non-collaboration. They did what they had to do to insure the survival of Nationalism against NON-LEBANESE Muslim refugees. We invited you in (albeit reluctantly via the Cairo Crap). You were guest in a state that believed in helping it's Arab brothers and sisters, but that was not enough! WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO in regards to the Jews. NO LESS AND NO MORE! Because of you, we are now prisoners of Syria (lees now), Iran snd even Israel. Thank you for that, you non educated idiot!
