Lebanese Christians Protest Hizballa

No mention of this demonstration in today's print media.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - An anti-Syrian Christian leader dismissed Hezbollah's claims of victory in its war with Israel as tens of thousands of his supporters rallied Sunday in a show of strength that highlighted Lebanon's sharp divisions. The rally north of Beirut came just two days after a massive gathering by the rival Shiite Muslim Hezbollah that attracted hundreds of thousands. The two sides have been at sharp odds over the future of the Lebanese government since this summer's Israeli-Hezbollah war. Samir Geagea, a notorious former leader of a Christian militia, scoffed at Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's declaration that his guerrillas achieved "a victory" against Israel. "I don't feel victory because the majority of the Lebanese people do not feel victory. Rather, they feel that a major catastrophe had befallen them and made their present and future uncertain," he said. Hezbollah's fight with Israel sent its support soaring among Shiites. But a large sector — particularly among Christians and Sunni Muslims — opposes Hezbollah and resents it for provoking the monthlong fight by capturing two Israeli soldiers on July 12. Geagea's supporters, waving his pictures and the white, red and green flag of his Lebanese Forces Party, arrived in buses and cars at the shrine of the Virgin Mary in the town of Harissa, about 15 miles north of Beirut. Addressing his supporters after a mass to commemorate Christian militiamen killed in the civil war, Geagea rejected Nasrallah's vow to keep his weapons, saying the guerrilla group was blocking the establishment of "a strong and capable (Lebanese) state" for which Nasrallah was calling. "When we find a solution to (the issue of Hezbollah's) weapons, then it will be possible to establish the state as it should be," he said. Geagea, who backs Hezbollah's disarmament, implicitly accused the Iranian- and Syrian-backed group of running "a state within a state" in south Lebanon. "How can a state be established while there is a mini-state (within its borders)? How can this state be established while every day arms and ammunitions are smuggled (to Hezbollah) under its (the state's) nose?" he said.

Comments

[Anti-UN]

Ha ha ha ha...wonder what made you choose that pic!!

[Steve]

What I really loved was the Cedar symbol that she made with her hands. Because the Cedar Revolution was a sign of so much hope.

Its a picture of how Lebanon should be. When Fisk writes about how glorious Lebanon is, he is actually referring to that Lebanon depicted in the above image.

Yet he deviously then supports the other Lebanon - the extremist Islamic Shiite Lebanon which is about oppression and intolerance.

The left tried to deceive us into believing that there is only one Lebanon united by the Hizballh. But that is not true. There are at minimum 2 very separate and very divided Lebanon's. In reality there are actually probably 4 or 5 Lebanon's inside Lebanon with old borders drawn in blood remaining from the civil war in which Christians, Shiite's, Sunni's, Druze and Palestinians all fought against one another.

[Lev]

This blog, a compendium of brazen ignorance and lies, is one of the reasons that I, as a Jew, am not a Zionist.

[Steve]

Well I am impressed that I am such an influence in your life :-)

But seriously...

My stats show that you have made no previous visits to this blog.

They also show that you have only viewed the main page of this blog with a click into this thread to add your comment.

And so from viewing just one page of this blog you conclude that its "a compendium of brazen ignorance and lies?"

After spending a whole 20 minutes on the blog!

I think that the reason you are not a Zionist has little to do with this blog and lots to do with your rush to jump to conclusions, prejudging others, without first understanding what you are talking about.

[Ariel]

Zing

[Frances]

Shkayach Steve!!

[Bachir Sayegh]

I am an LFer and actually the sign she is making with her hands isnt the cedar sign , it is the LF Delta , the logo that represents the militia's resistance agains Syrian and Palestinians presence in the war .