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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea Slams Hizbullah over Drone, Says Only Govt. Must Respond to Israel Violations
2012-10-16
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
on Monday described Hizbullah's sending of an Iranian-built drone over Israel as "a direct message from Iran to Israel and the Western countries as part of the tug of war in the region," stressing that "taking such dangerous decisions must be the responsibility of the state, not any party, regardless of its position."

"This is not the right way to respond to Israel, which must happen through a complete defense strategy that must be laid out by the government exclusively," Geagea told news hounds after a meeting for the LF parliamentary bloc in Maarab.

"Israel's violations of Leb's airspace do not justify for Hizbullah to act unilaterally, especially that the wounds of the July War have not healed until today, and Hizbullah's insistence on drawing the Israeli threat makes it fully responsible for any human casualties Leb might suffer as a result of putting it in the eye of the storm and dragging it into the inferno of regional conflicts," Geagea added.

Geagea said the LF holds the government responsible "for the deterioration, in the absence of any clear social plan."
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