Demonstrators Protest Hizbullah's Involvement in Syria in Martyrs Square
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Lebanese for the Freedom and Dignity of the Syrian People gathering on Sunday held a sit-in in Martyrs Square in Beirut to protest Hizbullah's activities in the Syrian war amid tight security measures.
Al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Khaled Zahraman, March 14 general-secretariat member Charles Jabbour and activist Saleh al-Mashnouq participated in the sit-in.
"Hizbullah's fighting in Syria fuels sectarian tension in the region,” warned Jabbour in a speech he gave during the protest, calling on the army to control the border with the neighboring country.
Referring to Hizbullah, al-Mashnouq firmly rejected the “representative of Iran's” involvement in the Syrian war.
He noted: “The Sunnis of Lebanon are those who support the Lebanon First slogan, and those who agree with Sayed Ali al-Amin and late Shiite Authority Ayatollah Mohammed Mahdi Shamseddine's statements.”
“The revolutionaries will emerge victorious from the war.”
Meanwhile, LBCI television reported that another demonstration supporting Hizbullah's involvement in the Syrian war was supposed to take place in Downtown Beirut as well, but noted that “no one showed up” to the event.
Syrian regime forces backed by elite Hizbullah fighters on Wednesday managed to recapture the strategic town of Qusayr near Lebanon's border from rebel hands following a fierce assault.
And on Saturday the Eastern Bweida village, the last rebel bastion in the area, was seized by Syrian forces, bringing the entire Qusayr region near the border with Lebanon back under regime control.
Only 10 kilometers from Lebanon, Qusayr is strategic for the regime and Hizbullah because of its proximity to the border and because it lies on a route linking Damascus to the the regime's bastion on the Syrian coast.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah had previously justified the group's involvement in Syria by saying they were defending Lebanese-inhabited border villages inside Syria and Shiite holy sites in the Damascus province.
But during a May 25 speech marking the 13th anniversary of Israel's military withdrawal from Lebanon, Nasrallah said the hardline Takfiris are the “most prevailing group in the Syrian opposition,” warning against a defeat against them in the ongoing war in Syria.
He said: “If Syria falls in the hands of the Takfiris and the United States, the resistance will become under a siege and Israel will enter Lebanon. If Syria falls, the Palestinian cause will be lost.”
09 June 2013, 17:50
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the shia intelligencia is totally against hizbushaitan and they are starting to come out :)
10 June 2013, 16:07
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Meanwhile, LBCI television reported that another demonstration supporting Hizbullah's involvement in the Syrian war was supposed to take place in Downtown Beirut as well, but noted that “NO ONE showed up” to the event.
“NO ONE showed up”“NO ONE showed up”“NO ONE showed up”“NO ONE showed up”
Lololololololololol They living on borrowed time!
09 June 2013, 18:11
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Because it won't have any effect on anything and politicians that urged the protest today can be seen as fighters of their opinions and as being truly adherent to their cause. You know, politics.
09 June 2013, 18:18
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"Palestinian cause" is what it is, not a lebanese cause. as long as hizb keeps meddling in foreign affairs, nasrallah can count on foreign powers meddling in lebanese affairs. lebanon has had enough, near 40 years of turmoil due to the palestinians. the lebanese should try taking care of themselves first before invoolving themselves in other peoples business.
ACG
09 June 2013, 18:47
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@haile.selassie: so that's it? what happens when Qusayr citizens who slipped to Lebanon landed rockets in Bourj el Brajneh? the media talks about the next gathering of HA in another Syrian city in preparation to another operation...do you really think those people are not going to retaliate in Lebanon as they say.
09 June 2013, 18:53
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Because it just happened days ago? Because Hizb Allah is probably still involved and will get involved again? Pretty simple to see why for someone who uses their brain.
09 June 2013, 18:59
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The demonstrators numbered in the double digit range?
If there were any Christians in Lebanon, they would belong to Hezbullah, the force of the common people, as determined by number and power. And by success. God is not stupid.
09 June 2013, 20:16
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you have a real sex problem... go and check a sex therapist... or prove that you have a smarter language than the sex references you kept posting today!
can you do that? or your lexical field is limited?
09 June 2013, 20:34
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“The revolutionaries will emerge victorious from the war.”
If being torn apart in Qusayr after billions of dollars in weapons and funds and tens of thousands of foreign mercenary terrorists is their idea of being "victorious", then I dont know what their idea of defeat is.
09 June 2013, 20:47
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Mon ami. The FSA flag is a Syrian historical flag which dates back to the pre-Baathism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Syria
09 June 2013, 21:38
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Good for them, they are voicing their views in a civilize way. At least these people can protest and not be massacred by Assad's army and this protest looks too big to be attacked by the brave Hizbullah Thugs in training.
09 June 2013, 23:34
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Lol at that photo. The fact that they had to zoom so close in shows there was no real crowd, just a handful.
09 June 2013, 23:50
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57 people partcipated, counted on a picture taken by LBC.
Jazeera said tens
Etc...
Is it worth an article in Naharnet? Hahahaha
10 June 2013, 12:09
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really? have you attended a stab yourself shiite ashoura rally? or a christian hang yourself on a cross rally in Philippines?
