Khalil Says Hizbullah's Hand Extended to Partners, Optimistic over Dialogue
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Hizbullah secretary-general's political aide Hussein Khalil stressed on Tuesday that the party has been holding onto its stances for the past three years.
“Our hand is always extended to our partners in the country,” Khalil said in an interview with al-Akhbar newspaper.
He pointed out that the party is holding onto dialogue to resolve the political crises in the country, noting that it rejects any act of boycott.
“We are heading for talks (with al-Mustaqbal Movement) and we have nothing to be ashamed of,” Khalil told the newspaper.
The Hizbullah official said that the party will engage in dialogue to bridge the gap and reach common grounds, and “if reaching solutions fails, then at least we could organize our differences.”
Khalil expressed optimism over the dialogue session's agenda, which includes: easing sectarian tension and the political rhetoric, combating terrorism, activating the state institutions and parliament, and the presidential elections.
“There's no escape. We have to sit down and talk,” he remarked.
Nader Hariri, who is the adviser of al-Mustaqbal movement chief Saad Hariri, Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq and MP Samir al-Jisr are expected to represent al-Mustaqbal in the talks.
While, Khalil, Industry Minister Hussein al-Hajj Hassan and MP Hassan Fadlallah will likely be Hizbullah's representatives.
Lebanon has been without a head of state since President Michel Suleiman's six-year term ended in May over differences between the March 8 and 14 alliances.
Al-Mustaqbal is at odds with Hizbullah over its involvement in Syria's civil war. The party has sent its members to fight alongside troops loyal to President Bashar Assad against rebels seeking to topple him.
The movement has also repeatedly called on Hizbullah to hand over its weapons to the Lebanese state similar to what the country's militias did at the end of the civil war.
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23 December 2014, 08:00
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Breakthrough in talks might happen, if Mustaqbal stops urging the Resistance to conduct unrealistic changes. No the weapons will not be handed over, there will be no retreat from Syria, the combat against takfiris will continue.
23 December 2014, 11:00
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khalil is too good for his own sake. the only extended hand these can understand is either the saudi one feeding them or the one that leave a red mark on their faces.
23 December 2014, 13:04
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oh _mowaten_ you scary me sometimes!!!! I was thinking the same thing, exactly the same thing. We are so so similar it is not even funny anymore. We are both Shia and extremists; We both pretend to be secular and non-prejudicial; We both are malignant narcissists; We both lie and distort and last but not least; We both are paid to post.
_mowaten_, do you think people might think we are the same poster? I hope not
23 December 2014, 13:45
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so you're saying you're paid to post? not too much i hope, because that would be quite a waste.
23 December 2014, 08:26
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The hand of terrorism represented by this man should be severed not welcome. These criminals should have no place among the lebanese or the civilized world.
23 December 2014, 08:27
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I respect Mr. Khalil, Mr. Mystic, and their secretary Miss Mowaten
23 December 2014, 08:42
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The mere fact that Mustaqbal has agreed to sit with these outlaws, it gives HA the upper hand. Hariri has not learned one single lesson from the past. Organizing differences means accepting HA involvement in Syria, its weapons, and its dominance over Lebanese politics. It is seen as a reward for their obstruction and eroding the state.
23 December 2014, 08:47
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Once again, Mustakbal is sacrificing for the sake of the country. Merely by sitting with HA, it is giving legitimacy to HA. While HA is reiterating again and again its long withheld stances of keeping a state within a state....
23 December 2014, 09:35
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He pointed out that the party is holding onto dialogue to resolve the political crises in the country, noting that it rejects any act of boycott.
Gee that's funny, because they're boycotting the presidential election.
23 December 2014, 09:37
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“We are heading for talks (with al-Mustaqbal Movement) and we have nothing to be ashamed of,” Khalil told the newspaper.
Lmao why do you feel ashamed? Because you have to negotiate? That's the least you can offer to do for this country.
23 December 2014, 09:41
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“Our hand is always extended to our partners in the country,” Khalil said in an interview with al-Akhbar newspaper.
Your partners being Amal and your partners-in-boycott being the lunatic Jeddo and Franjieh the Syrian
23 December 2014, 10:09
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You need to count your fingers after shaking hands with them.
23 December 2014, 12:39
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Mr. Khalil, to be perfectly honest with you and with your party and come to think of it, you have no choice but to rejoin your Lebanese siblings. We too, we have no choice either, but look at just how many times we have tried to sit and dialog with your HA, did we ever make way forward? There was a time when all the Lebanese stood by Hezbollah, our doors were opened for it and this despite all the wrongs you did, but then when you started suffocating us, little by little, we too started to move away from you. Now pretty much of that support you once had has gone. Just take a good look at how moderate people like me who once did everything to defend you guys, today I've become so critical of HA, ask why? Then am I alone in this? Either way rejoin the fold or perish, that simple.
23 December 2014, 13:14
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Raad Says Hizbullah Ready for Dialogue 'According to Its Principles'
Naharnet 14 December 2014
..and Hizbullah's principles are the same since they were but a gleam in the Ayatollah's, the dead one, eyes. They are the sons of Hizbullah's nation, whose vanguard God has given victory in Iran and which has established the nucleus of the world's central Islamic state, abide by the orders of a single wise and just command currently embodied in the Supreme Ayatollah. Simple, precise, comprehensive. Larijani is here to remind them of those principles.
23 December 2014, 14:06
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your couplet was already lame the first time you posted it, now it's pathetic that you thought it was worthy of reposting.
23 December 2014, 14:42
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Embarrassing and pathetic ain't it, still you keep defending them.
btw way little man unlike you I decide what I want to post and when, your tradition of blowing up people to shut them up doesn't work.
23 December 2014, 14:03
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i am all for dialog but can the hezb be trusted to keep their promises
Wikileaks cables published by Al Akhbar, Aounist MP Farid el-Khazen expressed his anger with Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's lies during the national dialogue when he vowed to maintain the peace at the Blue Line. In another cable, Khazen told a U.S. diplomat that with the eruption of the war, Hizbullah had put aside its responsibilities towards Lebanon and launched an unnecessary crisis. Khazen also demanded that the Unites States pressure Israel to avoid targeting Sunni, Christian, and Shiite areas in the war, but to only focus on attacking Hizbullah...
23 December 2014, 14:22
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Don't tell me, coud that be the maid that throw herself from the balcony?
23 December 2014, 17:15
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dialogue? lol hezbollah does not even obey the state of Lebanon but are at the orders of Khamenei to whom they gladly obey... and they pretend to be lebanese? LOL
