The Liaison--he is. As if MP Saad Hariri heeded our calls here on this blogosphere when we wished he would take an independent stand from Jumblatt's moody decision-making process.
While Jumblatt and Aoun did not shake hands yesterday on the first day the newly-elected Parliament convened, Hariri not only shook hands with Aoun, but ended up in Rabieh that evening putting the Future Movement's "Open Hand" policy into action. He was in Mukhtara for the first time yesterday night over dinner with Jumblatt. A few days back, he visited Samir Geagea in his jail, again putting into action the Future Movement's "National Reconciliation" policy.
As for the Hizbullah/Amal cluster, Saad did not alienate. As always, MP Bahia Hariri used to be the strategic liaison between the late Hariri and Berri, taking a seat for herself in Berri's electoral list in the South. She was exactly that liaison, sitting between Berri and Saad yesterday in Parliament. And while his movement nominated Berri, it was apparent the agreement that his movement would nominate and his allies would cast a white ballot--a move that upholds their "National Unity" policy.
It is clear what Hariri's role is in all of this: he is the Liaison, between factions, groups, and politicians that might not meet on one table; but he has somehow spun a virtual table wherein everyone sits to decide the future course of our country. It is almost as if Aoun, Jumblatt, Geagea, and Berri sat on one table...but not.
On another point: the wind is moving Southward, back to Saida, after lingering in Tripoli for a while. Sanyoura is in. I hope Saad's Virtual Table comes into fruition.
"Nobody knows how many rebellions, besides political rebellions, ferment in the masses of life which people earth."
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That's why I said, 7illoulo 3i2idto (solve his complex) and create a senate to be headed by a druze, or some such arrangement (perhaps in rotation with other "minorities" like Greek Catholics or something).
Are you kidding? Do you actually believe he is sincere about deconfessionalization!? He would be finished in such an arragement! If now, Aoun almost trampled him in Baabda-Aley. He would melt completely. No way. This is just talk for Hizbullah's ears. 3am bisammi3 darso (he's reciting his lesson). The other thing is that people assume that only the Christians are against it (which is not completely true, witness Aounists). But in reality, do Sunnis want it? Are they willing to give up seats? But the other thing is, which I raised in my last post, is if HA is disarmed, and their network is disrupted through state services and private development and investment, and the electoral law isn't exactly what they want, and other alternatives on the Shiite scene are allowed to rise, then I doubt whether THEY themselves would call for deconfessionalization!!!
I wonder why nobody commented on Aoun's "95% agreement" on the Future program. Gosh, in 2 hours he found that out? And clarifying that the problems was about "size estimation" i.e. seats...woooah?
What about all this mess he has created ?
What about the 2000 election law ?
Yesteday Berri clarified it one more time his conversation with Nayla Mouawad. So, what Fares Boueiz did was quite mean, going to the patriarch and creating all this mess, and where was Aoun from all of this? And Berri was quite mean by not clarifying that earlier.
What about Aoun's false allegation about Nassib Lahoud ?
And his alliance with Hezbollah in Jbeil?
This is too crooked for someone claiming to be a man of principles "Mabda2i".
I can't believe that the mass is so blind and deaf...
Cheers
.... and someone here is promoting him as president.
For God's sake, I'm gonna puke...
Cheers
tell me one thing..how bad do you hate syria..I hate it A LOT
Tony, I think the disruption of all parties' social service networks is integral in building a unified national state. We should keep in mind that the form of social service varies from one side to another. For Jumblatt, Berry, and sometimes Hariri, the most obvious form was allowing supporters to "cash in" on corruption, as seen in different ministries, especially the electricity and public works.
As for "allowing" other shiite sides to rise, I find the idea rather irrelevant, not because, as Patriarch Sfeir puts it: "each sect has its chief now", rather because we look forward to a time when the citizens of this country can associate with it directly, without the proxy of a sectarian chief.
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