Raad: Next President Must Embrace Resistance, Be Aware of Its Role
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Head of Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad stressed Monday that the country's next president must “embrace the resistance and must be aware of its role and importance.”
“Our people and their representatives (in parliament) have the right to choose the president who can preserve the resistance's achievements, the unity of the Lebanese, national sovereignty and independence,” Raad said during a memorial service in the southern town of Deir al-Zahrani.
“We are before a presidential vote in a country whose land was liberated from a Zionist occupation,” Raad noted.
“Had it not been for the resistance and its fighters and martyrs, this election would not have been on the table today, and therefore it is not acceptable to elect a president whose mentality and choices contradict with the resistance's achievements,” he added.
The top Hizbullah lawmaker underlined that “the next president must embrace the resistance and be aware of its role and importance, not out of idealistic devotion but rather out of keenness on national sovereignty, which would always be at risk without resistance.”
“Those nominating themselves for the presidency must endorse this vision while competing against a candidate who is carrying the program of a new civil war,” Raad added, in an apparent reference to Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.
Last week, Geagea announced a presidential program that focuses on “restoring the authority of the state against the proliferation of weapons.” He is the sole politician to have officially announced his candidacy for the polls, whose first round will be held on Wednesday.
Without naming him, Raad emphasized that “all parties” do not perceive Geagea as a serious presidential candidate.
President Michel Suleiman’s tenure ends on May 25, but the constitutional period to elect a new head of state began on March 25.
The election is not expected to be an easy process amid a lack of agreement on a consensual candidate.
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21 April 2014, 16:56
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crusher or full-disclosure or mystic please don't spam the forum today.
21 April 2014, 21:45
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Crusher, I will repeat my question... why is an Assad stooge on a Lebanese web site?
You, mystic and Josephini have no shame, at least the rest of the M8 cheerleaders praise Assad from the privacy of their closets.
21 April 2014, 16:13
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another direct threat from teddybear! LOL
just vote the president you want and if the results do not suit what you gonna do? make a war again against lebanese? LOL
21 April 2014, 16:33
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That'd be quite a contradiction: Anybody who becomes aware of the role of this sham "resistance" would want anything but to embrace it. What "achievements" are you talking about? That you forced Israel to get out of South Lebanon by the gun, when intelligent Lebanese would have achieved the same through negotiations? Had you not been shooting and bombing them since 1990, we could have sat down at a negotiation table with them and ended this perpetual state of war. Go back to Iran you fearmongering warmonger!
21 April 2014, 18:51
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Crusher
I am answering to your reply below you stated that Jordanians are a minority in their country
aren't we the same if not worse off???
21 April 2014, 19:18
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Call them what they are Flimflan and Iranian terrorist militia... and what they are saving in Syria is Assad's grip on power.
21 April 2014, 20:05
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Crusher
you seem to forget we have 2 million Syrians and hundreds of thousands of Egyptians bengla deshi, sri lankans etc.... don't they count??
21 April 2014, 16:51
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Let me reiterate, no such thing as "The Resistance" at least not in the sense the Sasquatch here is trying to peddle. That became very clear to everyone when hassin admitted his "Islamic Resistance" went to kill and die in Bosnia. They were fighting along side Al Qaeda and Takfiri forces killing Orthodox Christians, maybe it was not because they hated Orthodox Christians per se but that was the mission assigned to them by their leaders the Iranian Revolutionary guards.
Hezbollah or the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon instantly became the Islamic Resistance in Bosnia, same fighters, same flag, same doctrine nothing to do with Lebanon. It later became Islamic Resistance in Iraq, in Syria, in Egypt, in Thailand, in Argentina etc. They are mercenaries or more accurately part of Iran's foreign legionnaires, they are deployed in support of Khomeini's doctrine of spreading a global Islamic rule.
21 April 2014, 18:37
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Thumbs up for Lebanon's Army and ISF, and ONLY the Army and ISF, which should be the only ones with proper weapons and authority, not implants by a foreign nation.
21 April 2014, 18:51
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Hezbollah does help its people and creates social welfare within its followers and is only able to do so if it stays armed to receive the hundreds of millions from Iran. But the Lebanese Shia that do follow HA are duped through many factors: Islamism, Lack of government support, Shia vs Sunni religious tension and so-on. One must keep in mind that HA must keep its weapons not because its Lebanese resistance,because its far from it. HA will always be a Iranian proxy and if it doesn't have to worry about Israel it will worry about the sunna. Unfortunately this religious tension has conquered Lebanon and we as a people,from any religion,have lost all regard to nationalism. Without any foreign intervention christians and non-muslims will eventually lose power. Who ever the president to be is, he should be against HA to the fullest, if not personal then politically. Lebanese must prove they do not want lebanon to be Iran or ksa in sense of government and we do not want civil war.
21 April 2014, 19:56
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I believe the way Islamist have developed the thought of Jihad through the years can be seen as "if your not with me your against me". Shia are considered to infidel in the eyes of the Sunni; Afghan-Arabs and militants that have developed Islamic Jihad to mean war. What the Sunni Radicals face is a far-enemy near-enemy dilemma. So eventually when they take action it will involve war with the Shia. Being that HA and most of the Shia community in Lebanon falls under the umbrella of HA, the fear of a inter-religious war can always be a threat Iranians and their proxy groups.
21 April 2014, 21:13
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Oh I never meant that Lebanese Sunna or Shia have the mentality I was previously mentioning. I was suggesting that on the broader scheme,that HA affiliation with Iran has attention of Sunni Radicals. I completely agree with you on that point and in no way did I mean Sunni's of Lebanon would attempt anything on the Lebanese Shia.
21 April 2014, 18:55
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And the Dr, will be appreciated as long as things are running smooth and is a March 14th hero. once they aren't,everyone will remember the war lord and will go against him in every way.
21 April 2014, 19:05
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“the next president must embrace the resistance"... go back to Iran you filthy Thug.
The Iranian militia is going all out with their usual BS propaganda. They want things to stay as they are, no state, no Lebanese authority with Assad & the Ayatollah pulling the strings.
22 April 2014, 12:34
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@Raad : You don't tell the president who he should or should not embrace.
You are threatening the next president publicly by saying so.
The fake Islamic Resistance in Lebanon must embrace the next president or be eliminated !
You answer to him and not the other way around.
In fact, the next president's ultimate role is to give lebanon it's sovereignty back with a clear plan to disarm your party of Kalashikovs and turn it into a real political party.
22 April 2014, 15:34
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@Raad :
1- Stop calling it the resistance ! Your name is the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon. Don't hide or be ashamed of your awful purpose !
2- You did not liberate our land. Israel let go of it ! You have no merit at all for freeing our lands !
3- The president as you say is representative of the people and therefore of the people's will. Hezbollah is not representative of the people. In fact, it's barely representative of the Shiia, a growing number of which despise your hateful terrorist organisation !
4- You answer to the president, not the other way around !
