Sunday, February 18, 2007
I got this article from http://www.moqavemat.ir , I would like to have your comments on it as well as factual confirmation or rejection of its content.
Tony
Politicians Without Principles
Today's main defenders, yesterday's main critics!It is Walid Jumblatt who called for revenge from Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, during last year's first anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister martyr Rafik Hariri. It is the same Walid Jumblatt who no one currently calls into question his close bond to martyr Hariri.However, a quick review of Jumblatt's positions shortly before the assassination of Hariri stunningly shows something different.Jumblatt, who is today extremely fond of Hariri and his memory, was also extremely critical to him. The (Bey), who once described Hariri as financial whale who wants to devour Beirut, launched between 2003 and 2004 a fierce offensive against the Hariri and his political and economic policy. The Lebanese daily Annahar quoted Jumblatt on the 13th of June, 2003 as saying: "Hariri does not decide whether there should be an extension to the President's term or not. A probability might emerge that we would want to extend the term, even if it was not publicly supported, because the current phase is not that of side battles. What's important now is to preserve the political trend and to protect the resistance, and Lahoud has it all. Does this mean that Hariri has lost to Lahoud? Well I say that at least he lost me. Hariri lost to Lahoud in the logic of a country of institutions in the face of privatization. And if this is only a small part of Jumblatt's numerous positions, the positions of other key figures in the so called February 14 bloc were not very different from Jumblatt's. He is the Higher President of the Lebanese Phalanges and former President Amine Gemayel, who never stopped criticizing Hariri between 2002 and 2004. Assafir daily quoted Gemayel on the 11th of February 2004 as saying: "Who chose the current parliament? Did those MP fall with parachutes? They are imposed on the people. With all due respect to Premier Hariri, after all he is a Prime Minister and a political official, but neither Rafik Hariri nor anyone else can impose candidates on the public opinion. We have to understand that Beirut is not only to its residents. Some people came to Beirut and possessed and dwelled in it, like Premier Hariri. He is from Sidon and he's a Beirut candidate."For her part, Social Affairs Minister Naila Moawwad was a member of the National Gathering which comprised many figures who oppose Hariri, on top of which is former Premier Omar Karameh and MP Butros Harb. In a interview with Afkar magazine on the 10th of March 2003, Moawwad described Karameh, who she took part in toppling in 2005, as a revered political pole and that his presence in parliament is a guarantee for supervision and accountability. Moawwad added that the parliament should not be monopolized by parliamentary blocs which have power and money. "There is great danger that the militias of war be replaced with the militias of money inside the parliament," Moawwad added.
Tony
Politicians Without Principles
Today's main defenders, yesterday's main critics!It is Walid Jumblatt who called for revenge from Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, during last year's first anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister martyr Rafik Hariri. It is the same Walid Jumblatt who no one currently calls into question his close bond to martyr Hariri.However, a quick review of Jumblatt's positions shortly before the assassination of Hariri stunningly shows something different.Jumblatt, who is today extremely fond of Hariri and his memory, was also extremely critical to him. The (Bey), who once described Hariri as financial whale who wants to devour Beirut, launched between 2003 and 2004 a fierce offensive against the Hariri and his political and economic policy. The Lebanese daily Annahar quoted Jumblatt on the 13th of June, 2003 as saying: "Hariri does not decide whether there should be an extension to the President's term or not. A probability might emerge that we would want to extend the term, even if it was not publicly supported, because the current phase is not that of side battles. What's important now is to preserve the political trend and to protect the resistance, and Lahoud has it all. Does this mean that Hariri has lost to Lahoud? Well I say that at least he lost me. Hariri lost to Lahoud in the logic of a country of institutions in the face of privatization. And if this is only a small part of Jumblatt's numerous positions, the positions of other key figures in the so called February 14 bloc were not very different from Jumblatt's. He is the Higher President of the Lebanese Phalanges and former President Amine Gemayel, who never stopped criticizing Hariri between 2002 and 2004. Assafir daily quoted Gemayel on the 11th of February 2004 as saying: "Who chose the current parliament? Did those MP fall with parachutes? They are imposed on the people. With all due respect to Premier Hariri, after all he is a Prime Minister and a political official, but neither Rafik Hariri nor anyone else can impose candidates on the public opinion. We have to understand that Beirut is not only to its residents. Some people came to Beirut and possessed and dwelled in it, like Premier Hariri. He is from Sidon and he's a Beirut candidate."For her part, Social Affairs Minister Naila Moawwad was a member of the National Gathering which comprised many figures who oppose Hariri, on top of which is former Premier Omar Karameh and MP Butros Harb. In a interview with Afkar magazine on the 10th of March 2003, Moawwad described Karameh, who she took part in toppling in 2005, as a revered political pole and that his presence in parliament is a guarantee for supervision and accountability. Moawwad added that the parliament should not be monopolized by parliamentary blocs which have power and money. "There is great danger that the militias of war be replaced with the militias of money inside the parliament," Moawwad added.
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