عون يدعو الى "اجتماع وزاري للبحث في ملف النفط": "من يعرقله يريد افلاس لبنان"

yiiii, rije3 el majnaoun!!!!

Tuesday Happy Hour with Aoun will all you can eat demaguogue rhetoric & accusations. We will not charge you one Lira of common sense, logic or truth.

what are you talking about? Aoun and the other MPs have zero legitimacy since june 2013, the day they decided to postpone elections indefinitely. min 3ambyihkeh, we as free people are held hostages of your 'leader' because they want to change the constitution to better suit their personal agendas.

ta3rif chou? rouh l3ab. There might be an 8 year old slave for you waiting in some camp.

Aoun : "we wonder what happened to the issue of petroleum."

Hezbollah happened ... M8 happened ... Syria happened ...

Parliamentary elections didn't happen ... Government didn't happen ... Justice didn't happen

Petroleum will not happen before all of the above is settled !

Aoun : "Those objecting the extraction of oil want to subject the state to bankruptcy because this issue draws an end to the collapse of the financial situation and to chaos"

Those who hamper our democratic process. Who force our youth to go work abroad. Who force our businesses to close shop or move out of Lebanon. Those who bring war to Lebanon and wage wars in other countries are the ones who are pushing the state to bankruptcy !

Those are your partners Aoun ! Stop misleading your people for they do not know better !

@Southern : why do you say the Saudis don't want the oil project to happen ?

Do they have a 40,000 men army in Lebanon to stop it from happening ? So they have 40,000 men in Lebanon who can take control of the country and reap the benefits for themselves ? NO !

So stop your false accusations !

The Saudis on the contrary have the knowledge, money and companies needed to help us extract, sell, distribute the oil & gas ... We can actually learn from their experience.

Do you have billions to invest in building out your infrastructure ?

zeroar: you think you know my sect? Good luck!

and I advise you to go gently on the bottle! excessive drinking is dangerous for the health; alcoholic beverages should be consumed with moderation.

don't listen to my advice, it's your loss!

and you roar perhaps you should practise what you preach, ie; as a lebanese you should have a little more respect to your president and don't call him a "Little Man" like your post on a different page. it's so easy to hide like a coward behind a post on the internet and throw insults right left and center

@ benzona we can disagree with aoun , but he and tayyar voted against the postponement of the parliament :P

To all Aoun haters. Pls read his speech and point out a single thing u disagree with. There is none. Both Aoun and Geagea are speaking correctly and their feud is only personal.

Botros, are you sure about it? They were against it, then in favour of it, playing games.... etc. Anyway, they are like Berri and Company....

you are hilarious,, since you asked for it and started the invitation , it's only right for the host to come out first.

let there be a gvt then you may tackle this issue... a caretaker gvt cannot take any important decisions just the day to day matters....
and besides there are many more main issues to tackle with before oil!

"those obstructing a governmental session of “wanting Lebanon's bankruptcy.”"LOL

as if your M8 gvt did anything to improve lebanese economy and tackle corruption at all levels...it starts with simple decisions as to computerize every single public administration so that everything is registered as your friend ....lahoud promised it the day he took the presidency. but we are still waiting for the state reforms to take place! and M8 did nothing for that so far....

@Southern : there are major problems with your link.

1- The title says "Conspiracy" :) This says it all

2- The source is Al-Akhbar ... It's not worth toilet paper ...

3- This is an opinion from the author. It's a theory ... I don't see facts ! I can write an article that says the exact opposite !

I don't see any "motive" to block Lebanon from exploiting it's oil. They have motives to block a Hezbollah/Iran controlled Lebanon from exploiting the oil but so do I and millions of Lebanese !

is this your way of chickening in out by using the excuse of multiple names?,, what's the matter? big mouth and no guts

Aoun indicts himself again. Maybe he hasn't figured it out, but big Western drilling companies will do the oil exploration and extraction, mainily Exxon/Mobile. If the government does not shape up, the royalty revenue will go to this disfunctional group of leaders who claim to operate the Lebanese Government and to an Energy Minister who is beholden to Hezbollah. Hezbollah has its tentacles in all aspects of Lebanese government. So how willing is the US to allow a US company to start drilling and paying royalties to Hezbollah?? Think about it, Aoun and who you are politically empowering.

benzona, yeah mate, his party was exclusively against the extension. When it became obvious their tenure was going to be expected, they refused to resign because it would omit their voice in parliament (which every party thinks is divine), and they have a point there really.

FPMers never said that blocking the parliament and obstructing the gvt for 2 years would lead lebanon to bankruptcy... but here? LOL

double standards applied as usual with these hypocrits!

and those who work hard for the oil money and not to create a government first are afraid there own pocket will go bankrupt.
Aoun you lowe life. drop dead.

@-mr.black
It is not that anyone is opposing oil exploration (I think you already knew that).
It is because of lack of trust among the different Lebanese factions with each fearing if the other were to start the exploration they will loos their share of the pie (I think you knew that too ;-))

HA et al closed the parliament fro close to two years and staged a sit in in downtown to stymie the government efforts then and to a large extent succeeded in doing that and in bringing the Lebanese economy to its knees. I am a Christian but I suspect what is happening is a text book case of an eye for an eye...

Short of annihilating the Sunnis, HA effort to get everything its way is doomed to fail because the Sunnis of Lebanon are now feeling that they are the downtrodden.

@ the1phoenix
While I am in general agreement with your assessment about the Feud (standard Lebanese mafioso style win/loose debacle), I also blame our Christian community. I have friends who are LF supporters and some that are FPM supporters. I often marvel at either supporters' entrenched mind set one way or the other with no logic behind their stances whatsoever. I personally favor Geagea if only because he came out of prison a changed man IMHO whereas Aoun does not appear to have learned anything from his years in manfa.
There was a chance for uniting the Christians in 2005 but Aoun's insistence on the "chair" and allying himself with HA killed it in its nascency. It bears repeating that before Aoun's mistake alliance I was as staunch an Aoun supporters as they come and was devastated by his actions since.

Aoun.. Go wear your colorful pijama...

m8 are the only one talking about the oil money instead of concentrate about forming a strong independent government. maybe they need to finance the war in syria ?
maybe they don't get t-bagged if they don't support him financial. iran don't have any money left.

@-mr.black
Appreciate your demeanor buddy. We can agree on somethings and disagree on others and that's the way it should always be, no threats, no takhween etc.

As to HA takeover being completely unrealistic, well, let me point out that Israel's takeover of Palestine was considered unrealistic until more powerful forces shoved it down the Palestinians' throat.
Also, I point you to Kissinger's memoirs whereby he proposed to evacuate the Christians from Lebanon to the West in the early 1970.
Now political pundits, especially Christians, are worked that Lebanon could be the prize for the USA's coming closer to Tehran.
Point is, anything is possible in the Middle East and history bears that out.

I know Aoun/Geagea are far from ideal for lebanon. But compare them to Nasrallah/hariri...the perspective is different, the latter are so bad that the formers become ok.

sorry, i don't understand farsi. can you translate?

Everyone perceives the situation from their one prospective.
Our economy without the oil is fine. Lebanon needs stability, accountability and the rule of law.
Without these three criteria, no matter how much wealth is generated from oil, Lebanon and its economy will remain in shambles, look at Iraq and Libya.
HA and all armed functions must abandoned their weopens and foreign adgendes.
Every politician and warlord is not allowed access to government funds or have influence over any financial deals within government. (I grantee that 90% of Politicians will resign)
Hence, problem solved.
Lebanon will once again reclaim its title as the capital of the Middle East.

mabadna gheir el 3imad rayis el jamhouriye !!! :)

Benzona... We all know that you are a strong supporter of hariri, but you need to diversify your news intake. Aoun and the fpm are the only ones along with the kataeb, that has rejected the extension of parliament! Your mustaqbul was the main parties to approve this illegal extension along with the LF, amal, Hezbollah and co. Please open your mind a little more and you will find that Aoun is not the enemy that is automatically thought of from Sunni Lebanese brethren. The constitution is what they dont want to be ignored and bypassed. Even though the fpm are anti taef accord, at least abide by the constitution is what they are asking for. Starting with the extension of the army command. Hariri and the mustaqbul have breach the constitution countless times in the past 7 years. If you can't find when, I will provide some examples.