The Economic situation destroyed the Soviet Union , will it pull down the Lebanese Soviet Union?
No, the situation will remain the same as always :
a large mass of completely impoverished muslims due to their impossible rules for commercial conduct (starting with : no women involved, no drink, no pork, ...) who turn to terrorism, which only makes their situation worse.
But their prophet told them so, so it must be right.
It is this attitude that makes it hard for Lebanon to flourish.
Why do you have the tendency to make it seem that Lebanese hate each other and they are heading or in a cold civil war. This is not true at all. This is just the media that is making it seem this way for political and antireform reasons.
If you believe in democracy as you claim, just go for new elections under a fair law, and let the people decide what they want.
The fact that March 14 movement tries to avoid new election talks makes me very suspicious of their credibility and the claim that they represent the majority of the Lebanese people; I think that March 14 movement know that they don't have the majority, especially after they lost the majority of the Christians mainly when they betrayed them and conformed an alliance with Hezbollah in 2005 elections.
The way out of this problem as I see it is to form a new government under the Senioura and have all the parties represented fairly. This is the only way out, and to stop talking about all this civil and cold civil war going on.
Cheers
Lebanese:
"The way out of this problem as I see it is to form a new government under the Senioura and have all the parties represented fairly."
I am not Lebanese and can only speculate but I would like to say that from afar it looks like problems of Lebanon are mostly of religious and etnical nature.
With all that said wouldn't it be better to forbid parties formed based on religious or etnical grounds?
I understand it is not exacly democratic but it might help at the beginning.
Lebaneza,
Economic problems did not destroy SU. SU fall apart because it did not want to stay together in the first place. And it goes back much farther than 1917.
Well said Mustapha. Your plain talking sounded too familiar.
they teach you in Engineering, that when a deadlock happens, one of the processes HAS to drop. The no winner no vanquished simply can't be done.
The US and Iran are toying with us, not to forget, they believe for very good intentions!
Lebanese,
You don't just go and have new elections whenever a minority sees that it has gained some extra votes - especially in a country like lebanon where alliances shift on an hourly basis.
The current government was freely elected, and they should be allowed to rule.
The opposition - if they truly had the interests of Lebanon in their minds would rejoin the government, push forward with electoral reforms, and wait till the next elections.
Why dont they start behaving like an opposition instead of thugs that will use terror and force to get their way...?
LebExile,
Unfortunately, I don't feel that there is a future for this country, especially if you and others consider asking for a democratic election to be held and a unity government to be formed representative of all Lebanese as an act of aggression, terror, and force to get anybodies way.
What’s happening in Italy is a great example of how things should normally be in a democratic country, the prime minister has just resigned and now they are going to hold new elections to respect the will of their people and form a new government.....just because they don’t approve of his foreign policies.
Well my friend you can't describe this situation we are in Lebanon now as simple as "You don't just go and have new elections whenever a minority sees that it has gained some extra votes" ....you know that this is not the case or the issue in Lebanon....It is way more complicated!
Unfortunately, one of our Major problems as Lebanese is profiling, who’re you to call those Lebanese citizens asking for their rights as thugs........
LABAYKAAA YA NASRALLAH
Anonymous | 02.23.07 - 8:07 am |
Stop cursing.
Lebanese:
Between WWII and the end of the 1st Republic, Italy has had some of the world's weakest and most ineffecient democratic governments in the world (average lifespan of less than 1 year). This weakness was largely due to the rapid turnover in ruling governments caused by the combination of the peculiarities of their parlimentary system and the politically fractured nature of the Italian electorate. I doubt many Italians would like to go back to the bad old days with that kind of political instability.
The instability Italy has endured is not something that well intentioned Lebanese patriot should emulate, especially if it requires extra-constitutional means to bring down an elected government. It would be far better for any truly patriotic Lebanese opposition (that is, one that cares for the long term stability of the country) to wait until it can muster sufficient political strength to win a no-confidence vote or until the legal deadline for the next round of elections. In the meantime, such an opposition could best use any percieved increase in its political capital to work toward the electoral reform that all sides seem to think is desirable.
I would like to add to Lebanese:
When the Italian prime minister resigned, he was pretty sure that the prime minister to take his place will not have the N#1 priority on his agenda letting syrian government take over the country.
The present Government in Lebanon is TRUELY a resistence Government.
Liban : Khamenei veut empêcher le tribunal international sur l’assassinat d’Hariri
24.02.2007
Depuis 1983, le régime des mollahs a un rôle central au Moyen-Orient. Les mollahs sont les acteurs occultes du conflit Israélo-palestinien. Afin de le demeurer, il leur est indispensable de contrôler le Liban, pays qui a le malheur d’être le voisin d’Israël.
Contrôler le Liban n’est jamais plus simple que quand il y règne un chaos total et que le pays est livré aux rivalités ethniques. Les mollahs, maîtres du Hezbollah, banquiers de la Syrie, sont derrière les affaires de déstabilisation du Liban. Ils ont fait disparaître tour à tour les hommes forts de ce pays à commencer par Rafic Hariri.
Ce rôle occulte de l’Iran n’est jamais évoqué dans les médias Européens car l’Europe est le partenaire commercial de l’Iran où elle réalise des bénéfices insoupçonnables aussi bien dans le secteur automobile (en récession en France) que dans le secteur pétrolier.
Pourtant, il existe de nombreuses preuves de la culpabilité du Hezbollah et des mollahs dans le meurtre de Hariri et d’autres patriotes libanais.
Khamenei, le Guide Suprême de la république islamique d’Iran, s’implique actuellement pour que le tribunal international sur l’assassinat d’Hariri ne se réunisse pas. C’est par des sources très proches du président Assad de retour d’un voyage à Téhéran que l’on a appris la nouvelle. Selon cette personne citée par le quotidien koweïtien d’Al Siyassa, Khamenei aurait demandé à Assad d’empêcher la création de ce tribunal avec l’aide de Nabih Berri, le rapporteur au Parlement libanais et de Nasrallah, le secrétaire du Hezbollah.
C’est d’ailleurs le moment choisi par les protecteurs du Hezbollah pour annoncer la prochaine « rébellion » de ce mouvement pour la fin du mois de Février. Officiellement, le Hezbollah et les partisans de Michel Aoun parlent de Désobéissance Civique (suite de la Grève Générale et illimitée du Hezbollah qui a été arrêtée sur ordre de Téhéran).
Encore une fois, une situation de guerre ou de guerre civile au Liban coïncide avec une mauvaise passe pour la crise nucléaire iranienne. Le dossier nucléaire iranien est indissociable du rôle régional des mollahs, on ne peut pas sanctionner l’un tout en ignorant l’autre.
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