POLITICS_ Geagea blasts Hezbollah's role in Syria

Geagea blasts Hezbollah's role in Syria

July 19, 2013 07:02 PM
The Daily Star


BEIRUT: Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea urged Friday Lebanese to defend what remained of the state of its legitimacy, blasting Hezbollah for dragging Lebanon into the Syrian conflict.

“What is needed today is for the state and what is left of its legitimacy to be defended, regardless of what we think of its performance,” Geagea said in a televised speech during the re-launch of the party’s Al-Maseera magazine.

“For the state to rise, the mini state [of Hezbollah] should go away,” he added.

Geagea also reiterated his criticism of Hezbollah’s involvement in the fighting in Syria alongside regime forces, saying: “What is the use of betting on the victory of an oppressive, murderous regime in Syria one day while we are losing our democratic system in Lebanon?”

“The situation [in Syria] is fraught with dangers, difficulties, mystery and concern and some are taking Lebanon to the war in Syria not to defend against Israel as they [Hezbollah] had claimed but to protect Iran and the regime of [President Bashar] Assad,” Geagea said.

The LF leader also warned of the repercussions that Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria would have on Lebanon.

“This dangerous bet [on the Syrian regime] will inflict death, bankruptcy, destruction rather than change and reform,” he said, taking a jab at his rival and Hezbollah ally MP Michel Aoun, who heads the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc.

“They want a Lebanon of wars and endless confrontations: arms result in arms and Jihad results in Jihad; all of this in order to justify their presence, their deals, their arms and hegemony,” Geagea added.

He also spoke of recent security incidents in the country, accusing Hezbollah of selling out Lebanon to the Islamic Republic.

“Unfortunately, from Sidon, to the bombing of Bir al-Abed and the Masnaa explosion, every day confirms our views; some have traded Lebanon with Iran while others have sold their national conscience and attempted to sell our history for a small share of ministerial and parliamentary seats,” he said.

“We only have one Lebanon but if someone regards Lebanon an extension of Syria or Iran then they should go there,” he said, urging his supporters to remain hopeful and predicting that the current situation in the country would soon pass.

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