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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea Urges 'Clear Political Confrontation' against Hizbullah
2021-11-18
[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...
has called for "grabbing the parliamentary majority" in the upcoming elections to "prevent Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
from controlling the formation of governments.""If they want to make troubles, let them make troubles. A clear political confrontation is necessary," Geagea added, in an interview with Annahar newspaper published Wednesday.

Labeling the electoral battle as "salvation," the LF leader said he is counting on the electoral juncture.

"We must start from the point of building the state and it is necessary to work as statesmen and to form a government that would take serious decisions," Geagea added.

Commenting on the Tayyouneh-Ain al-Remmaneh incidents, the LF leader reiterated that his party "does not have a military organization."

"Hizbullah tried to hold the LF responsible for the Ain al-Remmaneh incidents in a bid to isolate it and strike the last truly resistant position in Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
but it achieved the opposite," Geagea went on to say.



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