24/07/2010 With tears, Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri declared it…
According to him, the fears expressed these days of a strife that could take place in Lebanon due to the "already written" verdict in the assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, are simply baseless.
The reason is very simple: Rafiq Hariri's pure soul can't be a reason to restart strife in the country. So, "enough intimidation, enough interpretation, enough mobilization of people's feelings," Hariri stressed.
The young Prime Minister, who entered politics following the assassination of his father, was declaring on Saturday the beginning of the Future movement founding conference, a conference believed by his lawmakers to be a transitional stage in the movement's path.
Hariri said that there are attempts to create uneasiness among the people, urging the need for calm and maintaining national policies. He noted that the case of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri has become a national, Arab, and international cause, adding that achieving justice "is not open to negotiation and is an integral part of Lebanese consensus, ministerial statements, and Arab summit decisions."
He pointed out that there are some sides that are fearing or hoping that the assassination will be the spark that causes a Lebanese war. "We have no room for these fears and we do not base our positions on media leaks," he asserted.
During his speech, Hariri also said that the Israeli enemy won't be able to overcome Lebanon as long as the Lebanese know how to maintain their national unity. "The state is charged with being up to the challenge of an Israeli assault and Lebanese society is responsible for defending the nation," he highlighted.
HEZBOLLAH: HARIRI HAS DEFINITE INFORMATION ON INDICTMENT
Meanwhile, Hezbollah broke its silence on Saturday after the Future movement MPs said that the Prime Minister denied telling Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah anything about the content of the final verdict or its timing.Fadlallah, who called on all sides to assume their responsibilities and accomplish their duties to prevent all dangers, reiterated that Hariri has "definite information" over the verdict.
Hussein Assi
23/07/2010 Believe it or not, the Israeli enemy cares for Hariri family's "honor" more than all Lebanese!
Yes, while the countdown for the "already written" verdict of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon over the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri has started, Israel seems to be the most enthusiastic party in the world.
The slogans of "truth" and "justice" are concerning the Israeli enemy these days after the tribunal turned to be nothing but an Israeli scheme, the best "tool" to achieve the Israeli "unachieved" goals since 2006: disarming and dismantling Hezbollah.
Thus, Israel has the right to "regret" the stances of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and even to "justify" them by claiming that the young PM is just "scared" of reaching the same fate of his father or, at the least, embroiling Lebanon into a devastating and destructive civil war.
Yet, Israel was shocked on Thursday while listening to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah speaking about the tribunal and its expected findings. The shock was not due to the strong arguments given by Hezbollah to deny any involvement in the assassination of the former Prime Minister, but simply due to the revelation made by Sayyed Nasrallah that Saad Hariri himself informed him of the content of the final verdict.
"It was expected that Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah devoted much of his speech yesterday to denying his organization's involvement in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. What was less expected was his assertion that Hariri's son, current prime minister Saad Hariri, is the one who informed him that an international prosecutor planned to accuse Hezbollah operatives of responsibility," Israeli daily Haaretz said on Friday.
The Israeli daily quoted Sayyed Nasrallah as saying that Hariri had assured him that he, too, was convinced Hezbollah as an organization had not been involved. Haaretz couldn't agree. "If that is true, it just goes to show that politics is thicker than blood - for Hezbollah is well known for its rigid hierarchy, iron discipline and involvement of senior officials in all decisions at the field level. That makes it highly unlikely that Hezbollah operatives would have been involved in such an incident without the senior leadership's knowledge," the daily went on to say.
However, the most astonishing part of Haaretz article was its "justification" of Hariri's stances, as if it knew that the Prime Minister is not acting as he would like to. "Hariri's political survival depends on Hezbollah's acquiescence, something evidently more important to him than his family honor," the daily believed. "He may also have concluded that if he supports the international probe, he will share his father's fate - or, alternatively, that doing so could risk renewed civil war between Hezbollah and his own March 14 movement. In such a face-off, Hezbollah would certainly win."
The Israeli daily concluded that Hariri hopes to resolve the problem by distinguishing between the operatives and the organization, a distinction already rejected by the Resistance party.
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