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MP Marouni: March 8 portraying Patriarch Rai as another Aoun

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Former minister , Phalange party MP Elie Marouni told As-Sharq radio station. on Monday that “there is a big difference between what Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai is trying to say in his statements and the way March 8 alliance is portraying him.”

“The patriarch is calling for love, partnership and for the establishment of a state, while members of March 8 want to portray Rai as another [Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel] Aoun,” Marouni said

Marouni also said that “the reaction of the participants during the Lebanese Forces’ annual commemoration of Lebanese Martyrs when former Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir made an appearance shows where the Christian conscience lies.”

Sfeir celebrated the LF’s annual mass on Saturday and was greeted with loud applause when he entered the Fouad Shehab stadium in Jounieh, where the mass was held.

“We cannot continue with the current situation, and divisions among Christians is harming Lebanon… We are working for unity, but unfortunately March 8 Christians insist on giving a legitimacy cover to non-state weapons,” Marouni said in a reference to Hezbollah’s weapons.

Rai came under fire earlier this month from the opposition March 14 parties but won praise from March 8 politicians for indirectly defending Hezbollah’s arms and linking the party’s arsenal to the termination of Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory and the return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland . Even MP Walid Jumblatt who defected from March 14 alliance was very critical of Rai’s statements.

Rai emphasized during a trip to Paris that “only when the international community exerts pressure on Israel to vacate the occupied Lebanese territory ( the Shebaa Farms, Kfar Shouba hills and the Lebanese part of the disputed border village of Ghajar ) and Israel allows Palestinians in Lebanon to return to their homes, can Hezbollah be asked to hand over its arms because they will no longer be needed.”

Rai added that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is “open-minded” and should be given more chances to implement the reforms he already announced.

Assad’s regime has cracked down on a string of unprecedented protests across his country, killing more than 2,700 civilian protesters since the uprising began in March, according to the United Nations.

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10 responses to “MP Marouni: March 8 portraying Patriarch Rai as another Aoun”

  1. shankarees Avatar
    shankarees

    Most probably, the Patriarch is worried over another mass attack by Aoun’s supporters when they beat up the previous Patriarch and messed up the reception hall in Bkerke putting Michel’s picture on the Pat’s chair.  We haven’t forgotten what your idiotic, disrespectful Aoun’s mob do without thinking.

  2. shankarees Avatar
    shankarees

    Most probably, the Patriarch is worried over another mass attack by Aoun’s supporters when they beat up the previous Patriarch and messed up the reception hall in Bkerke putting Michel’s picture on the Pat’s chair.  We haven’t forgotten what your idiotic, disrespectful Aoun’s mob do without thinking.

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    Anonymous

    Most probably, the Patriarch is worried over another mass attack by Aoun’s supporters when they beat up the previous Patriarch and messed up the reception hall in Bkerke putting Michel’s picture on the Pat’s chair.  We haven’t forgotten what your idiotic, disrespectful Aoun’s mob do without thinking.

  4. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    When the previous Patriach criticized the arms of hezbollah, he was told by March 8th to stick to religion. When he also was looking to have a balanced gov’t he was told by HA to stop being biased. But Rai spoke in their favor, then they all supported his freedom of speech. how convenient for HA and their allies to be supportive of religious man when they support them. But when they criticized them, then not only they were trying to shut him up but also very disrespectfull. Rai needs to not say inflamatory speeches and should ask christians to be helpfull to the needy and act like christians not like the Patriach Aoun.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Religion seems a little more safe when it stays out of politics … would be good for ALL of us if it did.
      But … why is it only the Christians who should be helping the needy??

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    Anonymous

    When the previous Patriach criticized the arms of hezbollah, he was told by March 8th to stick to religion. When he also was looking to have a balanced gov’t he was told by HA to stop being biased. But Rai spoke in their favor, then they all supported his freedom of speech. how convenient for HA and their allies to be supportive of religious man when they support them. But when they criticized them, then not only they were trying to shut him up but also very disrespectfull. Rai needs to not say inflamatory speeches and should ask christians to be helpfull to the needy and act like christians not like the Patriach Aoun.

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      Anonymous

      Religion seems a little more safe when it stays out of politics … would be good for ALL of us if it did.

  6. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    i think the Rai should object to the way his role has been taken advantage of by one side of politicians. it is not befiting at all. yet he continues on his tour blurting out some more of his biased assumptions withou care in the world that his ‘assumptions’ and defend of illegal weapons are an insult to many martyrs he claims he is remembering…. contradiction is not befitting the Patriarch…he really should be more concerned with religious activities….

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    antar2011

    i think the Rai should object to the way his role has been taken advantage of by one side of politicians. it is not befiting at all. yet he continues on his tour blurting out some more of his biased assumptions withou care in the world that his ‘assumptions’ and defend of illegal weapons are an insult to many martyrs he claims he is remembering…. contradiction is not befitting the Patriarch…he really should be more concerned with religious activities….

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    Anonymous

    i think the Rai should object to the way his role has been taken advantage of by one side of politicians. it is not befiting at all. yet he continues on his tour blurting out some more of his biased assumptions withou care in the world that his ‘assumptions’ and defend of illegal weapons are an insult to many martyrs he claims he is remembering…. contradiction is not befitting the Patriarch…he really should be more concerned with religious activities….

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