Jumblat Meets Salam after Holding Phone Talks with Aoun
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Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat held talks Wednesday afternoon with Prime Minister Tammam Salam, stressing that “there is no justification for impeding cabinet sessions.”
“PM Tammam Salam has been running the country in a very wise and delicate manner in the past 16 months, and today the junctures are bigger and more dangerous,” said Jumblat after meeting the premier at the Grand Serail.
He was accompanied by the PSP's ministers in the government – Akram Shehayyeb and Wael Abou Faour – and ex-minister Ghazi Aridi.
“During the awful Lebanese war, Lebanon was burning while the Arab countries around us were stable. Nowadays Lebanon is stable whereas most Arab countries around us are burning. So the fire might be at our doors,” Jumblat warned.
“That's why I don't see a justification for impeding the cabinet sessions, which are being run through PM Tammam Salam's wisdom and administration,” he added.
The PSP leader also noted that “there are files that need to be accomplished so that we delay and avoid the coming blaze and serve the interests of citizens.”
Earlier in the day, Jumblat telephoned Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun to clarify recent claims attributed to him by the media.
Jumblat stressed to the Christian leader his “keenness on the positive ties between them,” said a PSP statement.
He also stressed the need to maintain contacts “that have proven their effectiveness in recent phases in Lebanon.”
As Safir newspaper on Tuesday reported that Aoun had accused Jumblat of “betraying him” regarding the appointments of security officials.
The PSP statement on Wednesday deemed such claims as “inaccurate and false,” adding that Jumblat “had previously submitted a proposal over the appointments, but it had failed for various reasons.”
The FPM is pushing for the government to discuss the appointment of high-ranking military and security officials and Aoun has been lobbying for the appointment of Commando Regiment commander Chamel Roukoz, his son-in-law, as army chief.
Last week, the cabinet failed to tackle the issue and widened the divide among its different parties. Further disputes are threatening Thursday's cabinet session.
The FPM's plan to stage street protests hinges on the session's outcome, FPM officials have said.
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08 July 2015, 13:02
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(1). Michel Aoun is his own undoing. At a time when the nation is being challenged by a myriad of problems, Aoun choses another wild adventure into the unknown. I don't know where on earth he fished that Christian issue, but this just goes to show what an opportunist Aoun is, or an Arriviste as is called in French. Thankfully his key allies have not toed his line. Frangieh and the Marada, Sayed Hassan and Hezbollah, Berri and Amal, Tashnak, they all made their positions clear and would not support him in going to the street. Today thankfully, more and more people have come to know this lunatic well beyond any lingering doubt. They know his utter selfishness, they know his recklessness, they know what a bad planner he is and above all, they know what a coward he is.
08 July 2015, 13:08
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(2). When I wrote sometime ago and repeated the same words again and again, that the majority of the Lebanese people do not want problems anymore, the majority of Lebanese just want to live in peace and be capable of making ends meet. Whether you hail from M8, or M14, irrespective of your sect, or creed, or gender, the parties are not here to help you, you've always been on your own as a Lebanese and you will always remain on your own. Parties will call the Lebanese to take to the streets, but what will you get but trouble and perpetual decay? Fact is and remains, we Lebanese need each other and we cannot keep fighting each other forever.
08 July 2015, 13:10
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(3). Wisdom has finally settled with most people, yet Aoun still wishes to dream in a land where wars and conflicts never end. Ya General, you're stinking rich, you're comfortable, Winter or Summer, you'd never know the difference, but the Lebanese man and woman have loved ones to cater to, wake up, all dreams do eventually end, this one of yours now finds you on very rocky and thorny grounds and you've only got yourself and your demagogic brain to blame. We kept telling you that it's no longer 1988, nor 2005, it's 2015, try if you still have it up there in your skull ya Caporal, to understand that things do change with time, especially here in Lebanon.
08 July 2015, 13:17
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"As Safir newspaper on Tuesday reported that Aoun had accused Jumblat of “betraying him” regarding the appointments of security officials."
Well obviously, betrayal is joumby's middle name.
08 July 2015, 13:26
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Mowaten, only yesterday Aoun was blasting everyone, that is why he got some pretty nasty response from some of his closest supporters till hitherto. Check Wiam Wahab's response on Al Jadeed and others, Naharnet preferred to delete the posts where in posted the link, but you can find it on any social media, please watch it.
08 July 2015, 13:30
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Well that's how a free alliance works phoenix, what are you so surprised about? Of course they can disagree and sometimes exchange some jabs. Unlike m14, those who compose m8 each have their own voice and they are masters of their own decisions. They are not all pawns waiting on saudi masters to reward them with a treat when they do well reciting the same chorus.
08 July 2015, 13:50
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Mowaten, I disagree, it is not a free alliance, the whole matter is simply based on wisdom, when a madman wants to lead, there are always people who know when the time is ripe to say NO. You guys simple said to Aoun in Russian, Nyet. Then about Saudi cash, may I suggest you turn the other side of the coin and see also about Iranian cash or what's left of it, as Iran is right now negotiating with the big Satan Amreeka in Geneva, talk of the politics of empty stomachs. What Aoun's M8 allies did for once is real wisdom, in light of the array of problems you guys are facing these days, it is the only logical choice left to you. In better days, by now you would have overran downtown Beirut again. Mowaten, not everyone has a pre-programmed brains, you see?
08 July 2015, 13:31
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By this time next year, aoun will reach new high in votes against him and the continued war against all.
08 July 2015, 14:29
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@barking.m14er, walah, if Mowaten and Mystic catch you, they'll cut you to pieces, what you're doing is so unfair to them, go and don't taint them anymore, in any case, your IP has been reported to the sleeping beauties of the Naharnet Mod Team. They are so good at deleting good posts, yet would not see the trolling like yours. yesterday you came up with other names, why change it today, ma it's the same IPs mou?
08 July 2015, 15:47
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God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell
08 July 2015, 16:26
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راجمة وصواريخ في شوارع البقاع
http://www.lebanese-forces.com/2015/07/08/launcher-rockets-bekaa/
You see there is a security plan in the Bekaa region and it is quite normal to drive a mobile multiple rocket launcher through the streets if you are from nasrallah's clan.
10 July 2015, 17:46
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Dear Lebanese people,
You deserve better than these rotten politicians you have. I am talking about ALL. Jumblat, Aoun, Jaja, Frangieh, Berri, etc... EVERY SINGLE ONE of them needs to go.
Look at the quality of Lebanese people outside of Lebanon. Why not use those to build a modern and decent government? Why you keep electing the same set of monkeys and why are you so LOYAL to them? Don't you think you deserve better?
