It’s really just a language problem. “Consensus” means that Nasrallah gets everything he wants … everyone has to “compromise” to his position. He has made that perfectly clear in almost every speech – starting on Easter Sunday when he said there will be no more “round tables”, there will only be a table with him at the head.

Appeasement = disaster for Lebanon, where will it stop once you start giving in to the intimidation?

They were never alive in the first place…simply because it is futile to deal with Hizballah, Amal, the SSNP, Murr, and Franjieh as Lebanese agents when they are in fact (and have been for years) nothing but representatives of the Syrian regime.

Their actions since the abortion of the National Dialogue talks via Hizballah’s ignition of the July War (specifically when the issue of Hizballah’s weapons were to be discussed and the decision on the disarmament of the pro-Syrian Palestinian gangs implemented) shows as much.

There was a hope that Aoun could make the right decision for himself, his constituents, and the country in Paris. That has now been dashed in classic Aoun fashion…

…experience prevailing over hope.

Sami,

I’m going to make this very short.

What do the ’solutions’ that the opposition have presented actually solve?

The opposition has always presented ’solutions’ on their terms, their vision of Lebanon, and in essence Syria and Iran’s idea of how Lebanon should be governed.

mustapha:
I’m glad you are finally taking a hard stance. M14 were softening up their position as we see it. It’s high time that they see the light. The opposition is too engulfed in deadly alliances to backup from serving their foreign masters. They really don’t care about lebanon and have happily recruited a madman to serve their cause.

We are heading to a confrontation, which will undoubtedly defuse some tensions and hopefully, bring back people to their senses.

Sami said
The opposition first asked for a national unity government, it was refused. Then they asked for early elections, and this suggestion was also refused.

Would you take two seconds and think about what these “solutions” really are? How can you ask for a unity government when you don’t agree with the present majority government, and they don’t agree with you? How can you ask for a unity government when you simply have an agenda that you want to go ahead with, and to hell with everyone else?

How can you ask for early elections? Do you just want to hold new elections every time the actual elections don’t give you the result you want? What is that going to accomplish?

These are non-solutions. These are demands. “Give in to our demands.” You actually have to work at a compromise, work at the trust, to make me think a solution is being proposed. Simply saying “agree with us and give us what we want” is no solution. Nasrallah is not interested in trust, he is only interested in keeping his weapons.

Sami, do you know what the most important part of a democracy is? The ORDERLY AND REGULAR TRANSFER OF POWER. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS FOR THE SURVIVAL OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.

If you just have a new election right after one you didn’t like, then you are in effect supporting a coup, or revolution. That is not democracy. If you refuse to hold regular elections, then you are supporting authoritarianism. Democracy doesn’t mean get your party elected and then fuck democracy.

ORDERLY and REGULAR.

There are two things I believe firmly. 1.Iran does not want a civil war and Syria does. 2. Nasrallah can’t not accept a loss here. So, who is he going to follow – Iran? or Syria?

My money is still on regional war + internal chaos to derail the whole process.

Oh yeah .. Aoun is not even part of the equation, he is nothing but a pawn. He has been used like a tissue.

I find it funny that we’re only good at attacking the opposition and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and we ignore the fact that Israel is the worst aggressor in the Middle East and that it can attack Lebanon at any time.

I DO NOT WANT HEZBOLLAH TO DISARM. Because Hezbollah is the only protection we really have against the Zionists. The purpose of Hezbollah is to defend its land and the people within its border. Disarmament is not possible at this time since the Israeli army is still within the borders aiming at the people and the land. Hezbollah can only be dissolved once the Lebanese army is strong enough to protect the land and the people. Only when there will be a constitutional Lebanese government (with a strong army) that will be able to protect us against the Israeli war machine and that will represent ALL THE LEBANESE equally, and only when Israel will stop occupying parts of our land and gives us back the Lebanese prisoners it illegaly kidnapped during its illegal occupation, then maybe we can think of disarming Hezbollah. But until then, there is no way that we will disarm the Lebanese resistance, an independent organization that NEVER used its weapons inside Leb against the Lebanese civilians, unlike other political groups and leaders in Lebanon, and that is there to defend its country and its people AGAINST ISRAEL. If there is no resistance, ISRAEL WILL BE OCCUPYING ALL OF SOUTH LEBANON AND EVEN BEIRUT. WE NEED THE RESISTANCE TO STOP ISRAEL FROM KILLING OUR PEOPLE AND COMMITTING WAR CRIMES AGAINST US.

We need a government to understands this and not a government that is controlled by THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA which is only there to serve the Zionists’ interests.

How come you never mention all of those important points in your posts?