Al-Rahi Slams Hizbullah as 'Army Belonging to Foreign State'
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lashed out at Hizbullah without naming it.
"We cannot claim to be preserving sovereignty while keeping the (illegal) border crossings open wide, and we cannot support legitimacy while accepting the multiplicity of weapons and the contempt of institutions," al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.
We cannot accept "the creation of an army belonging to a foreign state, as a top official of that state has acknowledged," al-Rahi added, referring to Hizbullah and its regional backer Iran.
He also criticized "alignment with regional axes that contradict with Lebanon's interest" and those refraining from "defending the investigative judge and the judiciary" over the Beirut port blast case.
Source: Naharnet
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