Geagea Lashes Out at Attempts to Lure Opposition to Attend Dialogue
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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said on Thursday that the March 14-led opposition rejects to pay the price for any government change by compromising on the electoral law that will be adopted in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
He criticized in comments published in An Nahar newspaper attempts to lure the opposition to attend the national dialogue session set to be held on January 7.
President Michel Suleiman postponed the last session that was set to be held in November after the March 14 alliance decided to boycott it.
Geagea accused “some” parties of trying to make a compromise between the formation of a new cabinet and the adoption of a new electoral law for the upcoming 2013 parliamentary elections.
“The all-party talks will not be successful,” the LF leader said.
Lebanon plunged in a political crisis last month when the opposition announced its decision not to sit at the dialogue table with Hizbullah, and boycotted all parliamentary activity after it blamed Prime Minister Najib Miqati's government on the assassination of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch chief Wissam al-Hasan on October 19.
Discussions among the rival March 14 and March 8 coalitions over the new electoral law reached a standstill as each alliance held on to its proposition.
The cabinet pushed in August for a law based on proportional representation and dividing Lebanon into 13 electoral districts. Meanwhile, March 14 coalition's proposal suggested dividing Lebanon into 50 electoral districts and adopting popular majority, explaining that this would give a just representation for Lebanese Christians.
While a plan suggested by Free Patriotic Movement chief Michel Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc allows every sect to elect its own MPs under a proportional representation system with Lebanon as a single district.
06 December 2012, 07:25
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Keep siding with the filthy militia karim and the serial killer will come to get you soon. A blood bath it's gonna be. Be prepared.
06 December 2012, 10:21
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eh ou3a dont be "lured" towards dialogue and understanding! that would be dangerously reasonable!
keep camping on hostility, provocation and degradation of the situation.
phil, we never had any illusion about that sicko, if he had the means he would have already done the blood bath and over again.
06 December 2012, 11:09
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Mowaten which dialogue ? let us put it on a small scale so maybe you ll understand it once and for all ... you have a big problem with your neighbor at the same floor , the guy dont want ot understand that you are an active person and have work and so he is partying all night long and dont let you sleep, so you wake up every morning tired and need to sleep you went 4 times to talk to him and explained the situation and you agreed that he will stop but he isnt , will you continue going to talk to him nicely or you stop going and call the police ?
06 December 2012, 11:19
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slash i dont think your comparison applies and a country's politics cannot be summarized to two neighbors and their petty grievances.
i'm not too much into metaphorical storytelling, i'd rather you spoke to me in actual facts and logic
06 December 2012, 12:49
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Mowaten i wont argue seriously with you about that , you watch and follow news and you can see that none of the agreements made in the national dialogue rounds have been respected by M8 .... you will deny it of course you will ask for facts of course , every one knows that nothing has been respected , from the weapons to the latest round for the Syrian crisis, and the latest you will throw it on M14 i bet , denying the HA memebers killed there fighting along with Bashar ! khallas man , some points even if you pretend that you are objective and not brainwashed still shows that ! facts, there are all over the internet just google it and compare what has been agreed on to what really happened you ll get your share !
06 December 2012, 12:50
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but of course , internet is taken into consideration when it comes against your political opponents , so forget it !
06 December 2012, 13:49
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gosh man you really made a crazy hodgepodge here, and since you dont want to discuss i wont bother demonstrating that contrarily to their claims there is still no evidence that HA is fighting alongside the syrian army. there was always HA members in syria, acting as liaison officiers, and the fact that one was assassinated after they followed him for two weeks (according to FSA statements) doesnt indicate he was fighting but only that he was driving his car.
of course they defend border villages from rebel attacks and if you dont understand that and expect people to passively let their throats get sliced like mutton than sorry but you're dreaming.
06 December 2012, 13:50
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also you say agreements were not respected, but which ones exactly? cite a case, be specific, you talk in generalities it's impossible to be rational when you're like this.
06 December 2012, 13:52
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oh sorry you vaguely tried to mention a case:
"every one knows that nothing has been respected , from the weapons "
uuuh what with the weapons? there was never an agreement, it's not because m14 wants something that HA has to obey.
06 December 2012, 13:58
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and regarding not getting involved in the syrian crisis gosh you have some nerve saying that after tripoli fighters got nailed red handed in syria and after saqr was nailed red handed!!! you used to deny it before, but now how can you still????
06 December 2012, 07:25
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Samir geagea is a teddy bear compared to your dudes nabih berry, assaad herden...and hassouna..,are also directly and indirectly responsible for tens of thousands of death.
Nabih berri has been the speaker of the house for 15 years plus!!!!
Assaad herdan still enjoys killing people and enjoys wealth and freedom!
Samir geagea served 12 years in jail with solitary confinment, went out , did a mea culpa, and has held the most staunched patriotic positions!
Let all ur scum catch up with samir geagea , serve in jail for 12 days not to say 12 years, apologize for their crimes and become advocate for a sovereign lebanon, before i start also criticizing samir geagea!!!!
Tahhir temmak ya awsakh el nass! ( reminds u of smth!!!!)
06 December 2012, 07:56
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berri and hasoon and junblatt all killed... thousands as well.. but your bias b.s. fails to mention that berri got the speaker of the house for all his killings.. hasoon still has weapons and is the ruler of Lebanon... and junblatt has everyone kissing his booty to have the majority... Geagea went to jail for 11 years.. you are the definition of hate and hypocrisy...and a sad sad brainless boy.
06 December 2012, 08:24
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Ted Bundy was a whacko misogynist who stalked and killed his female victims. What has that to do with the price of rice in China?
06 December 2012, 08:33
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Of all the Lebanese politicians, Samir Geagea is the only one who can rightly claim he kept true to his principles since that fateful day of February 14, 2005. Am aware of his past during the Lebanese civil war as well as his performance since he was released from prison. All in all, one can not but respect the man for adhering to his principles. Unlike Aoun who degraded himself and those, like myself, who used to believe him to be a man of principle when he betrayed all his principles and allied himself with HA all the while lusting after the "kirsi".
Mr. Geagea, chapeau bas.
07 December 2012, 09:09
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handing lebanon to syrian forces , hmmm i dont know who declared harb el elgha , but surely it wasnt Geagea ... and this war gave LEbanon to syria ... i dont know why he handed over the weapons of LF before HA and Amal and it was surely a huge mistake he did , and backing Aoun in 89 in sen el fil against Amine gemayel so Aoun could take over power at that time , and it was the worst mistake Geagea made ! the ones who destroyed LF ya FT are none than Hbeika the ones who betrayed Geagea are none than Aoun at that time ! Stay in 1990 and try to get it right this time :)
06 December 2012, 13:59
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Karim is right: Geagea's folie des grandeurs lead to the vanishing of all the defenses that Bachir G.sacrificed so much (including himself, and his two-year old Maya) to protect Christians, against all odds (US, USSR, Europe...all wanted the Christians out of Lebanon!!!) Nero wanted to play his fiddle: He started by HK, then Maroun Mechaaleni, then some other kids in matn jnoubi, then the sovereign Army (although I am not a fan of Mareshall Aoun, as Jumblatt calls him)...Now deal with it if you can...Nobody knows the dangers of hizbala, and their plan for dawle-ye isleimi...hassoun openly accuses that Christians invaded this region, which was originally theirs...All the Lebanese (including the gov) have become subdued by hizabala who accuses everybody of being a aamil, while they are to iranis...we can all be one big austrich, and deny the status quo, under the labels of patriotism...when Lebanon flourished from 1960 to 74, there was no hizbala...
06 December 2012, 15:10
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Two years ago all we heard was "one way ticket" from the M8 sheep. Now all we hear from them is beg for discussion. I wonder what changed their mind? I wonder to what happened to national unity government? its never the same when the shoe is on the foot, is it losers?
06 December 2012, 15:13
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Weakest stratgey ever! if you can't look good then try to make the other guy look worse with a smear campaign. weak, desperate and smells a lot like an origina strategy. Pathetic!
06 December 2012, 15:26
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Whether we like Geagea or not, whether we feel positive or negative for him is a thing best left to our personal feelings. The crux of the matter is that we Lebanese went through 2 civil wars, one in 1958 and the the other in 1975. Till this day, it is abundantly clear that until now, not one Lebanese citizen is able to change the fate of this country on his own free will and accord. Ever since we attained our so-called independence, we never really were able to decide where and what we want to head to. After the civil war ended, it got even worse for us, because to this day we are still led by warlords. I'm sorry to say this, but Geagea is not alone in this arena, those who used to shoot at him during the war are the same ones still facing him. Has anyone noticed this? When the guns blared, our pockets were full, when guns fell silent, our pockets emptied. Can anyone explain why?!!
06 December 2012, 15:59
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lebanese will be able to decide of their fate only when warlords will be prohibitted to do politics, when religious people will stick to religion exclusively and when all the laws will be according to civil laws and not religious ones... the day lebanese will act as lebanese and not members of a religious community!
so it s not for tomorrow....
06 December 2012, 16:03
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The1phoenix...this is what they play on! Just as Clinton said... "it's the economy, stupid". War brings money at the expense of people's lives. Just like Oqab Saqr is benefiting and profiting from his war lord Saadadine Hariri selling arms to the Syrian rebels.
Pockets are only full when people are dying. No one cares to remember what it's like to be in war, because we all pretend it never happened!
06 December 2012, 16:18
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(1). You my dear Lebanese Compatriot, when you wake up in the morning, who is providing for the coffee, the milk, the sugar, the bread, the dairies and the fruits on your table? Who is paying for your bills, all your bills? Who is paying for your children's tuition, health, bus, who is giving the wife the food money? If you do not go to your work every day, what do you think will happen to you? If you are ill, could you enter just one single hospital if the cash doesn't precede you at the desk? Would you aspire to a decent burial when your hour rings if you have not put some cash aside first? You know well, that nothing will come from your politicians, nothing. He will remember you exist when he needs your voice.
06 December 2012, 16:19
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(2). He will tar a few roads here and there, he will promise you the world, shake your innermost fear factor to the max about your sibling enemy and why you must need him, then when he gets your voice, you will be reverted to a voiceless nobody. When you drive back home in the evening, you must try to fit onto a mad traffic, get hit, so what can you do anyway? But then him, the rat politician, he will make himself heard, sirens blaring, let me pass, I'm the bastard you chose, let me pass, I'm the thing, you dear citizen you are nothing!! You pay, you pay and keep paying, many time twice if not thrice, yet tell me when one single service in this damn country ever worked! Electricity, think again, pray God a Mafia is not living next to you, you will choke on his diesel fumes and noise.
06 December 2012, 16:21
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(3). Social Security? Health Benefits? Maybe your kids will get the privilege of having to stand in queue for days at these offices, enduring abuse and insults, just for a stipend of your death bills. And did you die because you were unhealthy or old, or too tired or stressed out, or because you took expired or fake foods and fake drugs imported by the Mafia and their political protectors, can you tell? After reading this, you still want to follow our politicians, and for what, to beg him for what is your constitutional rights? Think well my brother, my sister, you are the SLAVE of your SERVANT, and you still refuse to wake up to that?!
06 December 2012, 20:12
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Phoenix, what is your pragmatic proposition?
Even if what you write is true, what is your solution?
06 December 2012, 20:23
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the first democratic solution would be to stop voting and to make peaceful demonstrations telling how fed up people are with their lies!
06 December 2012, 22:03
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Peace, I think you need something on the scale of when Hariri died for it to get traction and that will never happen in Lebanon because people are in either M8 or M14 camps.
The ones not affiliated to those 2 camps are minority.
If you want changes, you need to vote.
