Mustaqbal: Hizbullah is Eliminating Results of Dialogue before it is Even Held

The Mustaqbal bloc noted on Tuesday that the recent positions of Hizbullah and March 8 officials over President Michel Suleiman’s possible call for dialogue revealed that they are seeking to eliminate the results of the talks even before they are held.

It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “Hizbullah rejected dialogue over its possession of arms … It appears that it has forgotten that the resistance weapons that liberated the South have lost their legitimacy after they were turned against fellow Lebanese and after they harbored the accused in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.”

“What was permissible in the past is no longer acceptable today after the series of violations that have stripped the weapons of their legitimacy,” it added.

“These actions have placed it in the position of the accused and portrayed it as seeking to impose its opinion over the other as demonstrated in the coup that altered the parliamentary majority and formed the new cabinet,” continued the statement.

On the March 8 camp’s “ongoing media campaigns against former Prime Minister Saad Hariri,” the bloc said: “They are aimed at destroying the image of Hariri on personal and political levels.”

“These campaigns have been launched at Hizbullah’s behest in order to protect the current government,” it noted.

“They are a sign that the other camp has reached political bankruptcy,” it stated.

The Mustaqbal bloc also offered its condolences to the Norwegian government over Friday’s twin attacks that killed over 60 people.