Today’s newspapers are up on The Beirut Spring‘s Newsstand.
The papers by and large focus on three stories: One is about the Christians & The Seniora government (read background here), with a particularly dramatic headline by Al-Akhbar, a newspaper that made a living out of inflating Aoun’s ego: “Christian Bitterness At Seniora Intensifies”. According to The Daily Star: “Aoun blames government for Christian ‘weekness’”.
The second story is about the Buzz of a potential Aoun-Hariri meeting. Interestingly, both Albalad and Annahar chose to ignore the first story and focus on this one instead, perhaps secretly hoping that the two would get along.
The third story is about the upcoming Paris meeting, where the head of the Arab League Amro Moussa Tells Annahar that it will move in parallel with the Arab Initiative.
Anyway, why don’t you take a look at the newspapers themselves in the Newsstand? Remember, if you like a story, all you have to do is click on the newspaper and you’ll be taken to the newspaper’s website..
Hello, my name is Mustapha and I've been blogging about Lebanese society, business and politics since February 2005.
Amazing how Aoun is exploiting sectarian sentiments to turn the Christians against the government and the Sunnis. No Mr. Aoun, the Christian became weak for at least two reasons
1) you divided the Christians when you declared war against the Lebanese Forces. As a result, Syria occupied eastern regions after the civil war between Christians.
2) The Christian demographic base is shrinking, at barely 35% including all confessions, they are outnumbered by the Shiites.
The presence of a strong Christian community is essential for Lebanon’s survival. However, Christians should accept the fact that at least half of the Lebanese are Moslems and that Moslems can be as much Lebanese as themselves.