that’s why you need to work on the strategic defense plan instead of your public meaningless and obvious comments that only make the public angry.

what do you get out of this ridiculous statement that has been repeated over and oever again.

i’m not a supporter of hizbollah but these open exposes aren’t going ot make negotiations easy are they?

i agree with jumblatt and berri that now talks should be behind doors cos you are only bringing anger onto the streets and we don’t need that right now.

work on the strategic defense plan cos your speech there actually has good points if you direct it as part of the SDP concerns. these are concerns so they must be addressed at the table. next would be how to tackle these concerns and thereby creating guidelines.

by creating guidelines you are setting up points of discussions and a timetable for negotiations.

that’s when things get done but these public outbursts that have been going on for years are becoming tooo much. deal with the problem at the negotiation table.

il 3ama shoo bit noo’oo.

the government has been talking about a defense strategy since the july 2006 war?? maybe the government is in agrreance with hzb about it already…lok wat happened the other day when israel tried to come into the south and put up a fence…the army stepped in straight away…so this talk by gagae again is only just him trying to justify himself because he has become so irrelevant…he makes the comment that the army can easily do what the hzb does in the face of israel…is he for real….look what happened to the army in nahar elbared….the army is illequipped….there is no way the usa will allow the lebanese army to eqip itself in a manner that will allow it to defend itself against the israelis…a few outdated helicopters and humvees wont stop israel….has this man actually studied what happened in the 2006 war?

I am not here defending Geagea period. But everyone jokes about the Army being incapable where were Syria and Iran for the last 30 yrs. They were busy arming and training hizballoh. Why didn’t train and equip the lebanese Army. It was under Syria’s control. Maybe Geagea is referring to the 5000 army units that hezbollah have trained recently and is capable to learn and do the job. That means you train more than we have over 60 thousands troops. I am not saying train all of them. But if you train more than 1/2 of them then geagea in a way saying look if these guys can be as good as you. then allow them to do it meaning defend the country instead of you. All of you goes round and round and try not to offend hezbollah cause you all scared of them. You all want them to have control of the country and they truly do. Is he frustrated yes of course? and many other lebanese who do not dare to say anything otherwise they will be killed. If is he so irrelvant so why is Syria is trying to break him from Hariri? Anyway i used to support Aoun not geagea before and now i only support who supports lebanon period. And not some so called resistance and yes it will fight israel but its also its doing it for its goals beacuse israel stands in its way. Just like when the Sunnis tried in May 2008 and they were shut down in no time. Jumblat stood his ground but he knows very well he could not last much longer against them. If geagea trying to at least state an argument that might sounds logical then he’s doing it because hezbollah lied when it said it won’t attack israel withouth lebanese gov’t approval. It lied when it said it will not attack lebanese? it lied when it said it doesn’t want control of the gov’t and communications? it lied when hariri and others stood in its way and they demolished him. Enough crap from you cowards..

Tarie al fanarie, I support you in all what you say, but please let’s keep this site without insults and without naming people names. At the end we are all Lebanese and we’re bound to live together by respecting each other.
Everyone is entitled to his opinion and yes I agree Hizbullah’s arms are our biggest problem in Lebanon now and our biggest risk for another war, especially if it appears that the Syrians have supplied the Hizb. with scud missiles. Poor Lebanon we are going to pay once again the price of the stupid actions for very single few. Israel could pre-empt a war “supposedly” to distroy the scud missiles of the Hizb., these missiles would be the perfect excuse for Israel, because such missiles in the hands of irresponsible people like Hasan Nasrallah are a reason enough to launch an attack against Lebanon, God forbid.

so what are we saying here guys that lebanon should not be in a position to arm itself? the lebanese army is not allowed to arm itself with weapons not approved by israel…so who is going to arm them? The usa? Israel wont allow it….do you honestly believe that the leb army is not aware of the weapons the hzb has? trust me if israel could finish the hzb off tommorrow they would do it at a blink of an eye….now the balance of power has shifted and israel knows that…thats why they won’t dare invade…the hzb is not going to start something now…it is a detterent….the reason iraq was invaded was they knew they had nothing….the reason iran wont be or leb or syria is because israel knows now the repercussioins….stop stressing this is politics….the leb president and prime minister have recently spoken of israels provocations….leb can only defend itself through the army and the resistance…however as a government leb has to be careful of wat it says it has and dosen’t have when it comes to weapons…the agreements between the usa and israel are very clear when it comes to weapons…no arab country is allowed to have weapons that can be used against israel….thats fact and that is the reality on the ground…

Lebanon should be in position to arm itself to the teeth if you will. But not hezbollah or plo splinter groups or fatah al islam will cause another war on the border. What’s wrong with having the govt decide the fate of war and peace..What also i am saying is that Syria and Iran neglected to arm and train the army as they did to Hizebollah all those years.
And now the same people complaining that what did the west do for you? well you were in charge for 30 yrs then you say the army is weak and cannot take over anything. To add more insults people like aoun who i admired him and commended him for figthing the syrians. Is saying now the army should and only capable of handling internal affairs. BS you took on syrians when you had nothing to compare to them? you forgot about the soldiers who fought hard because of you. Its funny how quickly they forget that they could have easily equipped the army with best technology and integrated the resistance with then. Or at least resistance should only stand tall behind the army not before it. All their execuse now the army is too weak to fight.. again who was controlling Lebanon for 30 yrs.. Israel could not stop Syria from arming hesbollah so what execuses Hezbollah and everyone is giving here..

Why would Iran train the army in the last 30 years if we had a civil war back then? What use would it of been to train people who join the army for 1 year of millitary service and then retire to their normal lives. Better yet, what would we give them in return? The Hezbollah are hand picked and dedicate their lives to protecting the country and not one of them fear martyrdom. Now tell me, how can we make the army do that and by the supposed sponsors you talk about(america and the west), espicially when they don’t even send the lebanese army some missiles for our 1970s era helicopters and not even bazookas. Come on man. We don’t need fantastic plans or hypothetical situations. Be practical for the sake of your family’s well being when israel invades. It will be the difference between getting your house bombed or shifting the battle to palestine.

it seems people are still ignorant to the facts….who is going to arm the lebanese army other that syria and iran or russia or china? dont you hear what israel says anytime theres talk of arabs seeking weapons? they deem it a threat to them…every man and woman in israel is trained to carry a weapon fight and use it….we had a war with israel in 2006 and we are still waiting for a defense stategy….ok take the weopons off the hzb…whats the defense strategy??? anyone? how can the leb army stop a ground invasion by israel into lebanon??? in 2006 israel couldnt get thru bin jbeil….for gods sake the first thing we did after serving tea to the israeli army in marjyoun and the war ended was stop conscription in lebanon….is that part of our defense strategy?

Dear Alex it is right that Israel didnt get through Bint Jbeil, but this useless war destroyed this city and other cities as well. The success in wars is measured also by the destruction and by the achieved goals. What did lebanon achieve in this war? I dont want for lebanon to live forever in a state of war that would cribble our future and drain our resources. There is no evidence that Israel will disppear, I dont want to tie lebanon to endless war with this country, because this has been most destructive for lebanon. Other neighbour countries have adopted peace and half peace or no war nor peace.

“who is going to arm the lebanese army other than syria and iran or russia and china?” Well…that sounds good enough to me, wouldn’t you say?

“who is going to arm the lebanese army other than syria and iran or russia and china?” Well…that sounds good enough to me, wouldn’t you say?

People have no shame in support of Hezbollah.. Personally I have no shame in support of these words either.

John yes there was civil war and who has been preparing hezbollah for those years? Do you think they just armed and well trained in 5 yrs. I am just saying basically for 30 yrs Syria was controlling Lebanon. And Amal spokesman was complaining that those western powers did not train or provide arms to the lebanese army. But who was controlling lebanon? why did Syria and Iran choose to train Hezbollah instead of the Army then? there are reasons and goals for the the mullahs of Iran. Nassrallah while back swore in his speech to spread wialet al fagih rules in Lebanon. Now he’s not saying because they got smarter they say one thing and do another. Its fact and real. Syria could have easily trained hezbollah and the army at the same time. I would not mind cooperation between the two if they work toward lebanon. Yes there are spies in the army but also among shiites too. more than 40 % of them fought alongside israel against the resistance. so all you guys stop using this execuse you can’t trust the army. it was under Syrian control and total control. Mugnieh was not killed by israel. His killers are hezbollah and syrians whether you like to believe it or not. stop distracting facts and history and start thinking lebanon first and not hezbollah or iran or israel or whomever.

When your brain cells are neutralized you only absorb what somebody tells you over and over and I see on this site lots of people recite the same analogy line and can not think in any otherway cause we were fed the same propaganda on an on ,people should have more analytical way of thinking and listen to other peoples point of view, in order to make a buck you should

not loose 100 bucks why Syria does not get attacked by Israel because they know they are not a match to Israel and being smarter then us they do not provoke the enemy, can we not learn a lesson from our brothers in Syria?

Well Rafik I hope israel this time acts on it instead of just talk about it like before. I hope there they won’t be any wars ever. But it happens I hope this time Syria the fox will get hit big time and their gov’t will be fragmented so we can stop being their doormats. Unfortunetly they steal our money then they pay some back to Aoun and hezbollah and other puppets. They fool them into believing their fighting for their country while they’re fighting for Syria indeed. Nassrallah ego’s led us to 2006 war. ALl because he want to free Samir Qantar the baby killer. Yes israel does it that too but was it worth all the damage for this scumbag. Yes Syria is been out-samarting everyone and i hope it catches up with them soon. It used to be lebanese politicians making fun of Syria and their Lira was nothing compare to ours. Now look what they’ve done. so i hope the tides turn soon and they will get what they deserve soon.

Tarie, what can I say. You are talking like a true zionist apologist. You know what bideyek ti7keeni bil 3arabi lashoof iza inta 7ata libneni la2no ana ma3 il ouwet w ni7na did il hezeballah bil seyesi bas ba3erif ino lezim yitsala7o laydef3o 3an libnen la2no israel bida ghasmin3anak tihjom w itdamer kel libnen w mafeena na3mel shi ila inkoon 2weeya w indefe3 3an 7alna. Fa jewebni bil 3arabi lanshoof shu wad3ak.

John stop speaking in hebrew language. Here is what your buddy Qassem said and this is part of his statment:

Any war waged by Israel against Iran will not remain limited to a certain place, but it will set the entire region on fire, Hizbullah Deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem warned Thursday.
“I don’t have a final vision for the region’s situation at that time because this matter is related to the aggression’s nature, timing and area,” Qassem told the official IRNA news agency.

I am an israeli agent as much as you’re of a syrian agent. I speak for lebanon and i fought friends at work during the war of 2006 because they were happy when lebanon was being bombed. I got fired from my job your jerk for going against israelis. They used another execuse to fire me so i don’t have a solid proof. so stop accusing me of being zionist. if i am supporting lebanon and wanting it to be free of armed and lawless groups then you’re the enemy and no# 1 zionist i must say. for you advocate and support these groups more than a formal and normal and balance gov’t. speak in english i can’t understand your hebrew words lol.

And you call yourself Lebanese. Even the name doesn’t sound like it.

I am Lebanese Armenian and you call yourself Christian. I have not seen you one least bit defending anything that has to do with Christians integrity and security in lebanon. I still think you’re same guy Jnoubi and playing John so you can show that a christian supporting hezbollah. At least Aoun getting paid for it? what are you getting?

tarie the civil war is over bro…what do u mean christian integrity? are there no christian villages in the jnoub? so what is a christian in lebanon? im christian..whether im armenian or orthodox or maronite or whateva a christian is a christian.i dont understand what you mean please explain? is one not a christian unless he/she bags another religion out for whateva reason? are you more christian than aoun or franjieh or me? gage and gmayel were getting payed from israel when they supported them in the 82 invasion does that make them more christian? does that mean they have integrity? we as christians have most of the important positions in government and army so where is the integrity of christians being insulted here? christians probably killed more christians than anyone during civil war so what do you mean tarie? christians are the ones that went into sabra and shatila and massacred innocent people…a true believer of faith tarie whether christian jew or muslim sees people as people…what your talking about is racism…this topic is about a clear and present danger from south of the border by a country that will never allow lebanon to move forward because…now its the hzb weapons…then theres the water then theres the palestinians…unless there is a balance of power and i dont care if the goat herders in the south can bring that balance of power then lebanon will be nothing but a punching bag…u say your christian? israel bombed qana twice in 96 and 2006…this is where jesus turned water to wine…what were your thoughts? and dont reply with its the hzbs fault…we have an enemy on our border that has no rahmi….look what they did to bashir gmayell when he wouldnt do as he was told…work it out…