Today’s Almustaqbal frontpage hardly mentioned Hassan Nassrallah’s major speech yesterday. Is this a deliberate attempt by Hariri’s media to ignore him? Should we take a hint and stop fixating on the Party of God?
Today’s Almustaqbal frontpage hardly mentioned Hassan Nassrallah’s major speech yesterday. Is this a deliberate attempt by Hariri’s media to ignore him? Should we take a hint and stop fixating on the Party of God?
Hello, my name is Mustapha and I've been blogging about Lebanese society, business and politics since February 2005.
Nasrallah does not make sense. He says that Syria is the country harmed the most by the assassination so Syria did not kill Hariri and the other March 14 leaders. Using the same logic, Israel is the country benefiting the most from having the current Syrian regime so the Syrian regime is an Israeli regime!!!
Al-mustaqbal/future TV have lowered themselves to the level of Manar telvsion by becoming mouthpieces instead of actually relaying the news to us.
They can have their own point of view as much as they like,but not to the point of just denying news even exists.
I guess we still have the LBC, although their views are well known, at least they still try to function as a news outlet.
and why still refer to this lowlife cockroach as a “sayyid”?! Sayyid on a garbage heap? yes, perhaps!. But Sayyid tout-court? I seriously doubt it!
hard to do to the guy who has taken over Lebanon and calls the shots. Now they want to bring Hezb into the army. Swell. This guy is going to get you all blown back into the stone age and then declare another divine victory from his new hidey hole.
I reckon that what Almustaqbal did was the best thing, ignore the idiot he is a piece a shit that is not worth talking about the gorilla.
Yes, Mustaqbal is at the level of Manar now; what else can we expect when the key players are stuck in in “tajyish” mode?
But they were not the only ones who “Zabalou”; I and many others had no idea he made any speech yesterday, till we read the papers this (slow) morning.
Considering how devoid of any form of logic or rational thinking Nassrallah’s speech was, I think it’s high time he stops getting the kind of exposure he’s getting. It’s bad enough that a substantial chunk of the populace still believes the nonesense coming out of that guy’s mouth and revere him the way they do.
Only in Lebanon do the laws of rationality and even the laws of physics cease to apply. What’s that word that was used about Nazi Germany? “Collective madness”? or somesuch?
BV,
It was not madness that inspired Nazi who believed themselves to be ubermensh and wanted to rid the world of semites, and it is not madness that inspire those who think of themselves as the chosen ones, and who disparage “najis”…
Why Doesn’t the World Media Finally Show that Eliott Abrams, the pro-neocon in a slowly dying Bush administration, has met with Saad al Hariri?
(though I would be sure, that Sheikh Saad knew exactly how to respond to him… hopefully.)
- If Americas involvement in Lebanon is purely for Syria (Tribunal), then I would agree, we have enough friends internationally including France and KSA that will able to thwart Syria form weak Lebanon (militarily),
- But TO ALSO to Keep Israel at bay. Right Mr. Abrams??
- or does Hezbollah worry you? and hence will make Lebanon go into chaos because YOU and Israel fear Hezbollah??
GK, what about this theory? Israel isn’t guilty because it is being accused of framing the Syrians, so it’s not benifiting from the crime. Syria is benifiting from the accusations that Israel is trying to frame Syria, therefore Syria framed Israel into framing Syria (or something like that…:)
Mu,
What is it about your blog that seems to attract the fringe of the fringe?
The Beirut Center for Research and Information just published a study that shows the majority of the Lebanese backing a consensus president, and most are unequivocally against a partisan president (specifically a 50+1).
Are we here to implement the desires and interests of imperialistic powers, or the wishes of the majority of the Lebanese people themselves?
Let Al-Mustaqbal fan the sectarian, political divide all it wants. In the end you’ll get exactly as you wish, a nation full of hate (as some of your bloggers demonstrate above), division, rancor, and possibly the recipe for another (this time un-ending) civil war that will end up with this failed experiment of a nation into where it truly belongs: in the dustbin of history
Beirut Center for Research is an al-Akhbar tool, which means that it is the tool of a tool.
Nasrallah’s speach is on page 6
He exonerated Syria from the killings. So it is natural that his speach is not on the front page…
Ali,
Define “consensus”, and “Partisan”… Polls can be twisted this way; recall the one who claimed “support” for Hezb, at a time when it was facing Israeli attack. The question was twisted in a way as to show a wide support out of context.
I am sure most Lebanese would not like a president approved in “consensus” with Syria, nor do they want one that is a single issue “partisan” against Syria.
Ultimately, it all goes down to a choice; the thinking fringe, or the braying masses.
Jeha,
Read the poll for yourself: http://www.beirutcenter.info/default.asp?contentid=740&MenuID=46
The particular question and results I referenced was very simple: Do you support electing a “consensus” (tawafooqi) candidate or a candidate from either the opposition or government supporters. 80% to 20% of the population, the majorities in every sect, chose a “consensus” candidate.
If you believe that the majority of your countrymen are so dump as to not be able to tell the difference between a compromise president and a partisan one, what in hell are you fighting for? Some intellectual hamlet with your kind on a choice parcel overlooking the Mediterranean where you can manage the grazing herd below?
Your snobbish kind is a fringe in Lebanon. I just hope that the “braying” majority wake up to that fact and dispense with you properly (democratically of course) before you and your leaders take this country to an ultimate ruin.
Ali,
What’s with the pessimistic and melodramatic superlatives at the end of each of your comments?
This blog has readers from the entire political spectrum who debate among each other in a civilized manner (well, most of the time).
For the record, I don’t particularly enjoy your “readers of this blog are from the fringes” intonation..
Mustapha, ignore that looser just like al mustakbal ignored his master. Let them go preach in the desert I say, they don’t deserve one minute of attention. Thats why i’m keeping it short too… Wrote in 42 seconds!!!
Sorry Mu, but your blog’s commentators hardly qualify as a representation of the Lebanese political spectrum.
You get a single counter opinion once in a great while, and the M14 sympathizers’ cacophony runs them out.
Our situation is dangerous. That is not melodrama. If you don’t see it, we must be looking at different realities.
I raised the point of the poll above, they shot down the pollers and raised Clintonese questions about “definitions.” Fine, I say to M14, get some reputable international polling entities, a few of them, as many as you want; let them first agree on the proper questions, and let’s see what the majority of the Lebanese want. They say they represent the majority; let’s find out once and for all and let the people get on with their lives.
So we’re the fringe now? That’s pretty freakin funny!
I do believe your poll is right. A large segment of the Lebanese supports the consensus candidate.
That doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do, in my opinion. The Lebanese people have shown time and again that they’re sheeple anyway. The Lebanese have been trained to believe in this bullshit system that’s based on consensus and the notion of “no victor, no vanquished”, which is as far from democracy as there can be. So sure, they’ll blindly say they support a consensus president.
I found it interesting that the FPM MP Ibrahim Kenaan said yesterday that if the consensus approach failed, there’s nothing wrong with going to Parliament and letting the vote do its job in determining the next president. What a novel concept! That’s what votes are for, folks! If you want to do everything by consensus, then we really don’t need parliament, or a constitution, or to be called a “republic”. All we need is a group of folks agreeing on what to do next. These folks don’t even need to have any official titles or be leaders of anything official (like Nassrallah, Aoun, Hariri, Jumblat, etc.)
If that’s the system you guys want…Go nuts!
Ali,
My point is this; I, and many others, do support a “consensus” candidate. As long as it is a local consensus. My skepticism is elsewhere; as soon as you agree on the principle, Berri & Co. will twist it in practice, just like they did with the dialogue.
So yes, we all want a consensus. And yes, most of us also want 1559. The “braying” masses are by no means a majority in Lebanon; those who gathered on March 8 are no way more than those who gathered on March 14. It so happens that, today, for reasons of internal politics, the people are a bit muddled.
Emotions are a poor policy guide, no matter how “cool” it may sound. If that means being “snobbish”, so be it; it is the smart that lead the dumb, no matter how humerous they can be.
Jeha,
If masses are emotional, why not your masses? Because they agree with you?
And why let them vote at all in the end, since you, the “smart” one, can decide what is good for them? Why deride Bashar then for not allowing his Syrian subjects to decide their own future? Your political philosophy would have many supporters, not excluding Saddam, Pinochet, Stalin, Carlos…
Enveloped in your comment is also a healthy dose of bigotry. Your political point may have betrayed your real emotion, or you may have intended it that way. In either case, it seems to me, we have many more battles to fight yet.