May 7, 2008
Lebanon: Political Compromise Up In Flames?
 A protestor holding a gasoline bottle near a burning car. Beirut, May 7th, 2008. (Photo Hussein Malla/AP)Lebanon's opposition parties, including Syrian/Iraninan-backed Hezbollah, called a general strike across the country. Protesters blocked roads with burning tires and paralyzed Beirut's international airport. While attending the Arab Broadcast Forum in Abu Dhabu over the last few days, I chatted with leading Lebanese anchor Shada Omar. She told me the two sides seem as far apart as ever and that a political compromise between the western-backed government of Fouad Siniora and the Hezbollah-led opposition grows more and more improbable by the day. Politicians in Lebanon have tried - and failed - to agree on a consensus President almost twenty times since last November. Many wonder if all-out violence will break out if rival parties cannot find a way to govern together. The conditions are certainly there. 5 Comments
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My sister was in Lebanon! The conflict was already there earlier..
God save Lebanon from these politicians.I am starting to think was it not better when the Syrians were in Lebanon? I hope our army takes over .if this is democracy welcome to dictatorship.I am sick and tired of these politicians and their mini enclaves in Lebanon.I as a Lebanese sunni refuse to live in a Harriri enclave .the shia should refuse to live in a Hizbollah enclave.the druze and christians should refuse to live in a Jumblatt and Jajja enclaves.Lebanon deserve better than these so called politicians.
The increase in prices is international and the way it is affecting the world it is affecting Lebanese as well. Especially that to cover the 50 billion debt that both Rafic Hariri government and Fouad Saniora government have inflicted on Lebanese, Lebanese are paying huge taxes, while even with a minimum salary of LL 500000 an idividual can barely survive a week in such a salary.
Was Lebanon better when Syrians were in Lebanon: OF COURSE NO. the only problem to the Middle East and particularly Lebanon remains the dreadful US external politic that is: Divide and conquer.So May God save Lebanon from the US at its Lebanese puppet politicians.
Syrian-backed Hizbullah?
You are dreaming, they are trained, paid and armed to the teeth by Iran.
And by whom is Walid Jumblatt, Saad Hariri and Samir Geagea followers trained and armed? It is secret to nobody that by the US and Israel.
The difference is that Hizbullah are armed to defend Lebanon like they did in the July 2006 Israeli war, whereas the US is arming its puppet followers to fight INSIDE Lebanon, to make a civil war in Lebanon in the same way they did the civil war in Iraq. |
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