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| Yazbek Says Only State Can Acquit Israeli Collaborators |
| 2014-06-02 |
| [An Nahar] Head of Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's Juristic Committee Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek on Sunday stressed that only the Lebanese state can condemn or acquit the Lebanese who fled to Israel in 2000, responding to recent remarks by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi. "The Israeli enemy used these Lebanese to kill other Lebanese ... and when the liberation happened, we said back then that this issue is in the hands of the state," Yazbek said during a memorial service in Baalbek. "We reiterate that this issue is in the hands of the state, which alone must say who is Lebanese and who is not Lebanese. This is for the state to rule on and it's not about certain viewpoints from here or there," Yazbek added. He stressed that "the victory in 2000 was behind changing the equations" in the conflict with Israel. "They tried (to change the equations) after the year 2006 to no avail," the Hizbullah official added, referring to the 2006 war with Israel. Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... Bkirki sources told MTV that Patriarch al-Rahi "has nothing to say" about his controversial trip to Israel and the Holy Land, underlining that "his visit achieved a historic success." "We refuse to comment on the remarks issued against al-Rahi's statement and we don't want to engage in a debate with anyone," the sources said. "The file of the Lebanese in Israel is humanitarian, not political," the sources pointed out. For his part, Maronite Bishop Boulos Sayyah told MTV that Bkirki "will not respond to anyone's remarks regarding al-Rahi's statement." |
| Posted by:Fred |