Geagea Says Those who Vote for Assad Must Leave Lebanon Immediately
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday suggested that Lebanon-based Syrians who vote Thursday for President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian presidential elections must “leave” the country “immediately.”
“It seems that tens of thousands of displaced Syrians in Lebanon are readying to take part tomorrow in the farce-tragedy called Syrian presidential elections at the headquarters of the Syrian embassy in Hazmieh,” Geagea said in a statement.
“The definition of a displaced person is clear and international recognized and they are a person who leaves their country over a force majeure and security threats that prevent them from staying,” Geagea added.
“Accordingly, we call on the President and the caretaker PM to give the necessary instructions to the ministries of interior and defense and the relevant administrations to obtain complete lists of those who will vote for Assad tomorrow, in order to ask them to leave Lebanon immediately to the areas controlled by the Assad regime in Syria, as long as they will vote for this regime and it does not pose a threat to them,” the LF leader went on to say.
19 May 2021, 21:12
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The guy speaks logically, there’s no room in Lebanon for “refugees” who vote for the person behind their exile. We already have enough abnormal Lebanese, we don’t need abnormal Syrians.
19 May 2021, 21:43
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I agree but this logic is problematic since after the civil war, lebanese ended up in various countries WHILE still supporting one of the parties and their militias that participated in war crimes. Nobody called for them to leave immediately because of that. The vast majority of the lebanese diaspora still have one destructive political party that they support despite the fake "no to secterianism", "unity" and such slogans. They too should then be kicked out from those countries and sent to lebanon since they support politicians that did this to lebanon. Don't get me wrong, bashar is a war criminal so those who support him should indeed go live in his areas but the point is that that can be said not only about syrians.
19 May 2021, 21:43
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I agree but this logic is problematic since after the civil war, lebanese ended up in various countries WHILE still supporting one of the parties and their militias that participated in war crimes. Nobody called for them to leave immediately because of that. The vast majority of the lebanese diaspora still have one destructive political party that they support despite the fake "no to secterianism", "unity" and such slogans. They too should then be kicked out from those countries and sent to lebanon since they support politicians that did this to lebanon. Don't get me wrong, bashar is a war criminal so those who support him should indeed go live in his areas but the point is that that can be said not only about syrians.
19 May 2021, 22:27
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If your cake is as cheesy as your comments, you are in big trouble. In which country are Lebanese living as refugees and in camps and are registered with the U.N as refugees ya genius?!
20 May 2021, 00:35
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They don't need to be registered as refugees. The point is supporting men who ruined your country while living in someone elses country. Who is preventing the bashar-supporting syrians from returning to bashars syria? Likewise, who is preventing the millions of maffia-leader supporting lebanese from returning to lebanon instead of living on others peoples while having the nerve to not want non-lebanese living in lebanon?
Is your IQ low? It's really not hard to understand the double standards ya mr justice. People like you love to find excuses.
20 May 2021, 09:00
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Cheescake, the issue here is mainly Syrians living in Lebanon and supporting a regime that has for past 50 years totally devastated Lebanon.
It’s like:
Waving the American flag In Havana
The Israeli flag in Tehran
The Taiwanese flag in Peking
Your attempt in trying to sound moderate has miserably failed, everybody can read right thru you.
20 May 2021, 11:07
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A refugee by definition is a person escaping persecution among other things. If these Syrians are voting for Assad then they have nothing to fear and should be put on air conditioned buses by Hezbollah and taken to Assad's country.
20 May 2021, 13:31
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Every word has a meaning of this speech. Get a List of them. Those voting are those smuggling our own dollars and fuel and all materials and stealing to Syria. Why? They are in Lebanon for that purpose only. The Syrian refugees cannot go back to Syria because the regime call them da3esh. Therefore the UN has a list of them and if they steal our resources the local Lebanese forces can find those robberies in their tants immediately.
