Hariri: I Will Bear Responsibility of My Solidarity with Syrian People
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Former Prime Minsiter Saad Hairi stressed on Tuesday that the Syrian revolution will triumph.
He declared: “I will bear the responsibility of my solidarity with the Syrian people.”
He made his statements during a ceremony at BIEL in downtown Beirut marking the seventh anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
“I am completely responsible for the previous phase in Lebanon. I am responsible for making concessions at one point and refusing to make concessions at another,” said Hariri.
“I am responsible for accepting the premiership and later leaving it,” he continued.
“I am ready to bear the responsibility of preventing strife between the Lebanese, Sunnis and Shiites in particular,” he added.
“I have borne this responsibility in the past and will do so again today,” he declared.
“As part of the March 14 movement, we are responsible for preventing strife and paving the way for freedom and dignity,” he continued.
“Lebanon is headed towards a new political phase due to the Arab Spring and the beginning of the end of the Syrian regime,” noted Hariri, who delivered his speech from his Paris residence.
Addressing the Syrian revolution, he said: “The rise of the democratic system in Syria will fortify Lebanon’s democracy.”
He therefore voiced the Mustaqbal movement’s readiness to cooperate with the Syrian National Council, “which we believe is Syria’s hope of building a new democratic system.”
Addressing Shiite fears that the victory of the Syrian revolt will pave the way for a Sunni campaign against them, he said: “We do not hold our Shiite brothers responsible for the assassination of Rafik Hariri.”
“We have chosen the path of justice, not revenge,” he stressed.
“Weapons do not have a sect or identity, but the reality in Lebanon is that a certain political party possesses arms …sects in Lebanon do not belong to this party or that,” he noted.
“Only the plan to construct the state should unite us and we are all destined to respect the state,” he stressed.
“Israel is our only enemy and let us defend our country together and be victorious for Lebanon,” Hariri remarked.
“The arms should only be directed against Israel,” he stressed.
He therefore renewed his call for Hizbullah to review its position on Special Tribunal for Lebanon “because protecting the accused will not eliminate the indictment.”
The indictment, released in August 2011, accused four Hizbullah members of being involved in Rafik Hariri’s February 2005 assassination.
The party has repeatedly refused to cooperate with the tribunal.
“Hizbullah’s insistence on protecting the accused will only emphasize its involvement in the assassination and the party should not fall victim to such a trap,” declared Hariri.
Addressing the crowd at BIEL, he said: “I am confident that I will be among you in Beirut soon.”
“Justice will prevail and the Arab Spring will blossom,” he stated.
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14 February 2012, 15:59
Hariri: The changes we are witnessing require us to protect Lebanon from the dangers in the region. I am certain that I will soon be among you in Beirut.
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14 February 2012, 15:59
Hariri: Efforts to escape justice will fail. The government must understand this. I call on Hizbullah to review its vision of the STL because protecting the accused will not eliminate the indictment.
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14 February 2012, 15:56
Hariri: For a state to become a real state, it should control the possession of arms in Lebanon. We therefore call on Hizbullah to lay down its arms to avoid violence and guarantee that Lebanon will be a pioneer in the Arab Spring.
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14 February 2012, 15:51
Hariri: Only the state protects us and we are all destined to live under the state.
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14 February 2012, 15:50
Hariri: Weapons do not have a religious identity, but they belong to a specific political party. We know that Shiites support freedom and democracy in Lebanon and Syria. Shiites are a central sect in Lebanon.
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14 February 2012, 15:48
Hariri: We do not hold our Shiite brothers responsible for Hariri’s assassination. We have chosen the path of justice, not revenge.
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14 February 2012, 15:45
Hariri: We extend our hand for cooperation with the Syrian National Council.
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14 February 2012, 15:44
Hariri: The victory of the Syrian people will pave the way for the establishment of democratic ties with Lebanon.
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14 February 2012, 15:43
Hariri: The victory of the Syrian people will mark the real end of the phase of hegemony. The Syrian regime is heading towards its inevitable end.
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14 February 2012, 15:42
Hariri: Lebanon was on the verge of once again being victim to a new phase of hegemony, but it was thwarted by the Arab Spring, especially the Syrian revolt.
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14 February 2012, 15:41
Hariri: I am responsible for backing the Syrian people and their right for a democratic regime, and I am ready to thwart strife among the Lebanese, the Sunnis and Shiites in particular.
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14 February 2012, 15:39
Hariri: Slain PM Hariri’s blood and that of the martyrs was victorious over 30 years of hegemony.
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14 February 2012, 15:38
Hariri: I am completely responsible for the past phase in Lebanon. I am responsible for making concessions at one point and refusing to make concessions at another. I am responsible for accepting the premiership and later leaving it.
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14 February 2012, 15:34
Former PM Saad Hariri during BIEL Rally marking former PM Rafik Hariri’s assassination: Sovereignty, independence, freedom, and justice will be achieved. We only have dignity to achieve, as being demanded by Arab people.
14 February 2012, 16:00
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Alla yirhamek ya Sheikh Rafic and may god protect you Sheikh Saad, M14 and the Lebanon.
14 February 2012, 17:35
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Hypocrisy 'mowaten' HAAA!!!! look who's talking...30 years the syrian Baath party never fired a single shot to reclaim the Golen, (Assad has layers over layers of Mukhabarat all watching each other and everyone else. They Betrayed even HizbAsslah by giving up the location of its general in Damascus to the Zionist. your leaders in Iran helped the Zionist and USA in Iraq... Hassen said '...we will never turn our weapons inward...HAAA!!!' HizbAsslah is nothing short of a cold blooded murdering machine...Mafia....!!!
14 February 2012, 17:53
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not just that, the israeli crafts made 4 tours over the presidential palace in Lezkie, shot 2 syrian aircrafts and no one fired w rek even a fire cracker ! this is hypocrisy, aoun yelling that syria is a terrorist state hezballa are nothing than murderers he comes back to lebanon and they become saints , this is hypocrisy !
Mowaten go hang yourself !
15 February 2012, 01:21
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He will bare responsibility from france...he will never return to lebanon...never...why you ask....because hajj Saad Harari cares more about french women then lebanon...besides...he is a saudi...
hey call gemayel and geagea over to france hajj
15 February 2012, 09:27
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slash, not only your way of misquoting and distorting aoun's positions is dishonest, but also you should know that some people move on, not everyone is stuck in the past.
aoun was opposed to syria's presence in lebanon, he fought it but lost thanks to the brotherly back-stab of your queen djadja. while djadja had 4 ministers in the first syrian lebanese cabinet aoun was in exile, and fought syrian presence.
after syrians got out, while some docile dogs who had been collaborating until then started barking, he realized it was not necessary nor desirable to be at war or in conflict with syria, and left his rancor and hate behind. you should try it some day.
15 February 2012, 11:41
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Where i misquoted Aoun mowaten ? and where i distored Aoun positions? jsut ask for proofs and i am glad to give them too you! you are a brainwashed M8, your head is the cheeseburger, you say Ok to whatever $hit they say and when you have an M14 talking it kills you! Who backstabed General ? if Samir didnt back up his government Mowaten, General would have left the country in 89!the one who begun this elgha war was no one that Aoun stop now!
15 February 2012, 09:17
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hum, i see, instead of telling me he is not hypocrite, you're telling me others are more hypocrite and therefore it makes it acceptable.
in a word, you're not denying his hypocrisy. thank you, i salute your honesty here.
15 February 2012, 09:39
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As if supporting the syrian regime that is murdering its own people in the thousands for the sake of resisting is real is not. You are retarded.
15 February 2012, 11:52
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As for Djadja like you call him, having 4 ministers in that misnistry was maybe a mistake but at least it was some guarantee for the christians at that time, they didnt have the choice! but now for you having Aoun and 13 ministers in a syrian government doenst make any problem for you! always double standards Mowaten ! too predictable!
15 February 2012, 16:09
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lol and what guarantee djadja was for the christians, nobody harmed them as much as he did, out of greed and lust for power.
and ps, throwing back my arguments at me, when not applicable, doesnt work. contrarily to djadja, Aoun did not get his ministers as bakhchich, he got them by popular support. count the elected MPs before talking.
14 February 2012, 16:27
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Mowaten, you must be a mowaten of Iran please don't use lebanon emblem if you are not lebanese. which i think you are not.
14 February 2012, 16:58
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Mowaten....you need to catch up with time and realize old ways of ruling through nomadic practices are a thing of history. I'm surprised you have knowledge of using a pc and blog such as this. Never would God (who I beleive you and I worship alike) would support or commend barbaric methods of killing in his name....never!
15 February 2012, 09:16
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1. nomadic practices? yea i think you're spot on here.
2. blog? no this is not a blog, although that word is trendy this is a website.
3. no, i do not share your archaic beliefs, i am an atheist.
4. who speaks of killing in god's name? seems to me those who claim to be his "chosen people" and came to cleanse the land of its unworthy goyims, the ones who have rabbis in each combat section repeating to the soldiers that there is no such thing as innocents among enemy population... these are the ones who kill in the name of god first and foremost.
now please keep your primitive brainwash for cheeseburger brains, it doesnt work here.
14 February 2012, 17:40
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Hmmmmm let see.... NOPE looks to me nade's english tone in his text looks and sounds Lebanese... And ya Saudis are really glued to www.naharnet.com
14 February 2012, 17:48
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Oh ya forgot to mention ... Come on Assad!!! agree to demarcate the borders with Lebanon so Israel will stop using the excuse that ...NO NO NO this land belong to Syria not Lebanon... Come on you Assad Prick, words are not enough DEMARCATE!! you lying Zionists!!! you butchering Hypocrite!!.
14 February 2012, 18:03
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idiot.
his responsibility is that he will become no body in political life.
14 February 2012, 18:04
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the filthy zionist media terrorists cannot believe that there are many patriotic lebanese, so now they accuse people of being iranians.
14 February 2012, 18:28
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stop the speeches and give us guns so we can destroy jabal ahbal and familia now
14 February 2012, 19:00
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The time of the collapse of the Syrian regime is likely to take place sometime in march or April 2012. When this does happen, Lebanon will certainly be liberated from the clutches of the Syrian regime and its puppets in lebanon. These puppets will disappear one after the other and their existence will be uncertain and gone with the wind. lebanon will start building itself on a new basis. My only fear is the structure of Lebanon which is based on corruption! This is something that might be very difficult to resolve or handle. Only this is what lets be hold back; otherwise, the future looks bright and sanguine.
14 February 2012, 20:26
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My shee3i friend just got a job offer in saudi arabia. He couldnt find a job in tehran. many she3a lebanese work in saudi. we have to live together in harmony. Khalas, game over for one party hegemony in lebanon
15 February 2012, 09:33
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i think he was just explaining to you his system of values:
saudis have more money, they pay better, they can afford our daughters in maameltein and our sons in riyadh, therefore we silently bow down to the oily lards.
it's called prostitution, i guess some people chose that, we must take it into consideration when talking to them.
14 February 2012, 20:29
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the filthy zionist media war terrorist hallucinate about iran this iran that, and also they hallucinate about getting more weapons from usa to deal with me.
imagine the zionist entity having all weapons they have and still not capable to deal with me and my family.
hillarious
14 February 2012, 21:20
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when certain member of zionist information war department transfer from manical to depressive state than his boss removes him.
that's why they always appear to being in manical state
14 February 2012, 22:07
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yess! sooo good post here! reaaaally hilarious, but you can do better!
14 February 2012, 23:00
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the filthy zionist scum have put new sentence in their answering software.
14 February 2012, 23:45
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i see you are geting annoyed poor you! didn t mean too cause i love your comedy shows!!!!!!!!!
15 February 2012, 09:45
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the filthy fake mullah resistance information war department that get paid minimum wage with devaluating iranian currency is again going full swing being hysterical and accusing everybody of hallucinating. Yes the whole world except Iran, Syria and Hezbollahstan is hallucinating. The zionests must have turned on their mind control machine for everybody in the world to think the same except the three filthy stooges.
14 February 2012, 22:32
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Wow... He managed to read that speech fairly well without too many mistakes. His "speech writers" must be very proud. He is now a man of responsibility... Too bad he wasn't that man when he was PM, galavanting around the world, and living most of his time at home in Ryahd.
A man of responsibility would be in Lebanon. (broken leg or not. I can recal a relatiive of Saadadins, who had a broken arm once and continued his responibilities)
15 February 2012, 17:01
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I can recal a relatiive of Saadadins, who had a broken arm once and continued his responibilities"..... and where is that relative of his now???... oh yes he was blown up with a 1000kg explosive... so yes u r right he must come back to lebanon coz u r not able to carry a 1000kg of explosives to france
15 February 2012, 00:59
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To the vermin:
If you choose the ad hominem approach against Hariri, at least try to be creative and entertaining. Don't be so predictably boring. Your attempt at ludic humor is ludicrous.
To the grown ups:
Hariri's position is correct and admirable.
15 February 2012, 01:13
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what a bunch of losers...you talk of our glorious resistance while conspiring with those that have raped and pillaged our country. Lebanon and Its resistance will always be as one. We the lebanese people reject your zionist salafast tricks and attempts at sedition.
15 February 2012, 05:40
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mfawaz: "our glorious resistance" in my copyright. of course you can use it, but ask me first.
by the way are you the one who were on real news?
secondly i see that zionist information war department is working overtime in order to counter my increased activity.
poor people. now i made them work overtime, and still they are useless
15 February 2012, 06:21
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little saudi boy wants to rule Lebanon again. You only have one hope and you know it: Only if israel takes out HA you will be back in power. I say you already are talking with them big.
15 February 2012, 06:44
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Nope just stating what saudi boy is probably thinking. His other hope is that the brotherhood takes over in syria. You have to at least give the saudi boy the right to dream on.
15 February 2012, 07:19
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At this point in time the "brotherhood" would be a much better alternative to the butcher of Damascus .Besides I am sick of people speculating about who will replace the Baath party rule insituating that any sunni party has to be salafist .False propaganda emanating from disoriented people hanging on to power that is about to slip from their control..
15 February 2012, 15:15
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the filthy zionist media terrorists hallucinate that muslim brotherhood would be better than current regime.
15 February 2012, 11:07
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I respected his father but to follow Saad just because he is the son of Rafik is ludicrous! He has no vision no charisma and very often behaves like a child in a playground! Unfortunately very few figures in the Lebanese political arena are any better than him!
15 February 2012, 12:21
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keep it up saad one day you might understand that your political life has no future. you are a failure and always will be
15 February 2012, 15:17
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if i got this manical guy right, he wants open war on our glorious resistance.
maybe i got him wrong.
but posting 10 times in a row makes him lunatic, no matter the political side.
naharnet editors do something.
15 February 2012, 18:13
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jabalamel ... I never agree with you but your Comments this time are right ...Laughed so hard. hahhahahahahaahahahahahaahhahaha
Bipartisan I do agree with you also but not the open war thing man... Relax Dude.
15 February 2012, 19:34
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the filthy zionist media terrorists cannot agree with each other whether open war is needed or not
15 February 2012, 16:34
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you guys just follow and watch the action with some nice popcorn
15 February 2012, 16:39
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Bipartisan ..Saad can not open war, because hes fighting a religious group who have religious reasons for their cause, you will be opening a holy war..and holy wars require people who religious not secular, so i think hariri should step down, and let the real muslims handle them !
15 February 2012, 16:43
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Muslims cant be ruled by secularists hariri is , that why we are where we are ! a religious group came , and yes hezb does have a better cause than hariri, but doesnt give hezb the right to impose its ideologies on us, but they insist on doing so, so let the real men of the ummah, the people who fought the crusades on that same land, handle, these Sassanid waves coming from Persia who still Hallucinates of their non muslims empire in the pre islamic history
15 February 2012, 18:55
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Surely he will and as he did with his Lebanese fans: by running as far away from them and as fast as possible.
