France Says to Begin Arms Shipments to Lebanon in April

The Resistance is part of the constitution by law, so is it's arms. By the way, didn't France say they would send these weapons last year?

I hope al Rahi's representative in Paris emphasized that the 18,000 howitzer shells included in the first barrage of the package should be sent by sea, not by air, collectively and not individually, and not by their own propulsion. Using Israel as the middle-man in the transaction may introduce some forgiveable confusion in this area.

mowaten i am just going by the same logic law that mystic was following that considered the doha agreement part of the constitution.....listen by any standards a big grant like this to the lebanese army is a blessing and we should not spit in the face of the Donor!!! saudi arabia whether u like their ways or their society has been the single most supporting country to lebanon...and please don't tell me that their plan is to impose their ways on us lebanese!!!

(1). Mystic, thanks for making your support of the army clear, way to go. But you see, in politics things do change, so what could have held up yesterday could change tomorrow. In our context, the Lebanese Army has shown its mettle for some years now, since Nahr El bared, and against all the red lines that were imposed on it, the army did a great job, and above all, stayed united, purposeful, truly humane and professional call it the real baptism of fire but the army was born anew. Today any doubt anyone may have harbored since, all of it has gone, the army is today even better, still truly bonded and is receiving real weapons and not leftovers as you claimed, rumors now have it that we shall or might be receiving F5 planes from the US.

(2). Mystic. I have good reasons to feel that now everyone has seen the mortal dangers paused by I.S and the rest of the Takfiri evil groupings, everyone knows the challenges awaiting Lebanon from these filths, and everyone now knows and trusts the Army as the sole guarantor of peace and security. So dear Mystic, truth is that militias, call them whatever you want, they'll start to go, one by one till only the state will remain the only armed presence of the land. Yasser Arafat and his filthy gang of PLO sobs was the one that made Lebanon look like a terrorist state, but you and I and all know that Lebanon has never been a terrorist state, it was simply too weak to even talk, let alone stand. Now Hezbollah might find itself in that same predicament as the PLO, tarnishing the Lebanese state's very fundamentals, but you see ya Mystic, I am one who will clearly abstain from calling Hezbollah a terrorist group.

(3). Mystic. Till this day I will still see Hezbollah in good fraternal faith and would dearly love to keep having it this way. But if every time we want to have a new PM, or a new President, or a new Army chief, or even a plain folk singer coming to perform in Lebanon and have HA meddle, then will come the time when HA will begin to look a lot like the PLO. You want the army to reign supreme, then you will have to support it unconditionally and without any conditions attached. I will recall Bachir Gemayel's words, "The best equipped militia, the best organized, the most powerful is not even one bit as even a weak state". Our time has now come to accept facts, the state of Lebanon is the only option for everyone, no alternatives exist in all cases but the state, the state and the state.

(4) Mystic. Then whereas it concerns Hezbollah as being constitutional, I am truly sorry but there's nowhere in the Lebanese Constitution that says so, there's simply an understanding from the days of the late Rafic Hariri who made the triangulation, but it's nowhere in the constitution. Personally I have ZERO hostility against Hezbollah, I feel no harm for it, I would be most happy if Hezbollah though surrenders its weapons gradually to the state then continue purely as a political party like everyone else.

Freedom you know what they don't say, "What's good for the goose is not always good for the gander"? Good, in this case people like the partisans of Hezbollah or their lackeys at the FPM, or the Palestinians and those radical Sunni forces, none of these want to see a strong Lebanese Army, and why? Because a strong Lebanese Army translates into a viable and fully contiguous Lebanese State, a state that is then fully capable of imposing its will on the land and on everyone. By default that means that all the militias and those who used the militia weapons to impose their will on everyone in Lebanon will weaken then fizzle away. The secret is simple, strong army equals strong state with strong constitutional institutions equals Adios Sayo Nara to all militias, yes, militias, the sickness of Lebanon since independence.

First you wanted to get rid of the palestians, now you want to get rid of the Syrians. Don't you phalangists learn from your mistakes?

Why not the Saudis? Oh I forgot, they are M14's loanshark.

Lol pijama, big mouth, small man. The only thing you could ever throw out is yourself, which you already did.

"vigilante.flamethrower" hahahaha dude I love how pissed and frustrated I make you. A piece of advice: seek help, these pitiful expletives aren't doing anything for your inferiority complex.

Arming the army with real weapons, to counter Israel. Yes I am indeed for the upgrading, I do not see any benefit from these western backed deals, this is hardly enough to combat takfiris, let alone Israel.

we don't want "clean money or weapons" from the fuse that has held this country ransom since 2006

Mate i could swear I saw you earlier, are you that hobo who ran across martyrs square screaming "Ebolaaaaa, Ebolaaaaa!!!!!"