Who Would Head A Second Government?

Posted on by Mustapha

This is a rhetorical question, but we’re all allowed to guess aren’t we? Assiyasa Did.



Assiyasa is not the most credible newspaper. In fact, it is notorious for getting things wrong on Lebanon. But it had the occasional prescient hit.

Now that Mr. Abdel Rahim Mourad, a rare Lebanese politician who admitted he was upset when the Syrian forces withdrew from Lebanon, can’t fill the post because of the American Ban, why not give the honor to one of the most loyal Syrian allies?

Who gives a damn about the Taef agreement anyway. If Assad says the PM should be Maronite, why not? It would be fun to divide and conquer..

0 Responses to Who Would Head A Second Government?

  1. Sleimam Jr! what did he study? at one time this Bozo was health minister! Oh! he graduated from the political school of Sleiman Sr, Allah yghameklo! A gangster and serial killer was President when the war started.

  2. Kheir, it’s funny you should bring that up! A few months back when that lowlife was musing about the patriarch having had a hard-on etc.. I wondered whether the poor bugger had even made it to the 5ème before shooting his filthy mouth on national TV! But that’s the kind of stunted feudal universe Lebanon is stuck in… Instead of forcing meritocracy into place we prop up and sustain a thugocracy where retards like this guy get their fifteen minutes of fame every freagin second of every day.
    Back to the arak and Orwell’s 1984!!!

  3. LNH,imagine when Sleiman Jr was in school…the poor teachers. I bet you he got strait A otherwise they would have their throats cut. Same for Joumblat, however Walid Bey seems to be more educated.

  4. Kheir, Kamal was a world-class intellectual and an enlightened man who probably was okay with the fact that his kid could never hold a candle to him. He, at least had the grace to accept his and his offspring’s limitations. But the Frangiés? OMG! Save for Hamid, they were obtuse illiterate thugs, and brash and cocky about it to boot!

    I went to school with one of the dopy relatives of the Frangiés; even as CE2 kids, the guy would not miss an opportunity to remind us who he was and what insignificant vermin we were compared to him and the “dynasty” from which he hailed (terrorizing both students and teachers into submission to his “4 volonté”…)
    On the other hand, I rode the same bus as Pierre Gemayel II (the one who died last November); he was a few years younger than I and an ordinary student (at best) who deigned ride the same bus as the rest of us mortals in the mid-1970′s. We sat in the back of the bus, and a few buddies of mine and I (armed with a weird sense of empowerment back in those heady days of the civil war) would slap the poor kid around ONLY because he was a Gemayel and we were older and COULD yank his chain. I doubt I would have lived to see “today” were I to stand up (let alone harrass) a schoolmate named Frangié back in those days. But I guess this is one way you could tell human beings from scum back then! The Gemayel’s were not exactly saints; those were ugly times with plenty ugly characters throwing their weights around the country… but there were feudal lords and warlords back then who had a modicum of grace, and then there were others, ill-bred medieval crackpots and thugs who wouldn’t miss an opportunity to crush you EVEN if you could run circles around them in polish, knowledge, and culture…
    Kheir, if you have access to Charles Corm’s La montagne inspirée, read the second chapter “Le dit de l’agonie”… Although published in 1933, it is sooooo NOW!

  5. Thanks for the suggestion, Louis-Noel. Of course I heard about La montagne inspirée however I have not read it yet.
    According to my father, Hamid was a gentleman and a friend of my grand-father.

  7. Appointing a Christian as PM does not go against Taef or the National Pact. There’s a precedent, and it makes sense.

    The symbol of Lebanon’s state is Christian. If that symbol cannot be elected, then temporarily the Prime Minister position – the responsible office of the Lebanese government – falls to a Christian.

    It also allays Christian insecurity.

  8. Mr Malik, with all due respect, usually it is the army chief that is appointed PM in case the presidency is vacant,it happened in 1952 and 1988, thus a Maronite…In any case, the symbol of Lebanon should be Lebanese first…