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Jumblatt: The Bkirki deal will isolate the Lebanese people

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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt criticized on Saturday the agreement reached at Bkirki by the Maronite leaders concerning the parliamentary the electoral law.

“This law will lead to the isolation of people of different religious sects from each other,” Jumblatt told al-Manar TV on Saturday.

The electoral law that was proposal by the Orthodox Gathering and which was adopted by the Maronite leaders calls for each sect to elects its own lawmakers to ensure fair representation at the parliament .

Headed by Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai, the meeting Friday gathered rival politicians such as former Lebanese president and current Phalange party leader Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea, the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement Michel Aoun and Marada Movement leader Suleiman Franjieh.

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13 responses to “Jumblatt: The Bkirki deal will isolate the Lebanese people”

  1. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    i agree with him.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yah. I think it’s time for ALL the people to take to the streets shouting ‘Screw all of you religious idiots. Get out of our government.’

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    Anonymous

    i agree with him.

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      Anonymous

      Yah. I think it’s time for ALL the people to take to the streets shouting ‘Screw all of you religious idiots. Get out of our government.’

  3. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    Do not criticize a solution without having one to replace what you criticize. First, short of having a secular system any proposal will be wrong. In that atmosphere sweeping the middle east where the power is split across the Shia / Sunni divide and Islamic rules adopted right and left where the entire planet has left religion to matters of the spirit and not government minorities need to have some representation which is fair and representative of their aspirations.
    In my district for instance, the christian candidate who wins the election is the one aligned with the Sunni majority. So a Aouni (despite my disdain to him) will never have a chance even though the aspiration of the region’s christians is at present aligned with Aoun’s. Even if a candidate is neutral or centrist or a technocrat he or she has no chance whatsoever even if one can have the majority of the Christian votes. I am sure it is the same way in the Shia dominated South. So short of having that religion stupidity totally gone from our hearts and minds and system I see no harm with the Orthodox proposal.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      I have had ‘The Vision’.  (there were trumpets, I swear it)
      (In The Year of All the Lords – 2030 )
      The religious Heads of Lebatopia – plump and eating well in a large warm lighted room of the ‘All-together Temple’ – gathered for their monthly ‘pray-together-meeting’ and to discuss how ‘the country’  (which no longer needed an army or weapons – being peaceful and regulated by ‘thought-laws’ from The Good Books which were masterfully blended by former propagandists to explain the service of the peasants for God and Humanity and certain Pontificated Purities – (the ones in this room)),  might consider extending electricity beyond the Holy City of Beirut to those who plant food and tend goats in daylight; how many colours a pole should be striped with; and how high on Mt. Olive it should be planted in it’s glorious symbolism of  ‘1’.

      The morning session having been used up listening to a simple paint-techie describing the difficulty of spiralling 18 colours the length of an electrical pole, it was decided to hire 18 (representative) advisors to form a ‘committee of equality’ to study the problem and report in a future meeting. All agreed it was the best way. (As written in ‘Main Law’ 69 – rev72.)
      Lunch was served – wine on one side of the room, coffee on the other (as written in ‘Goodness Me Law’ 481 – rev.89) – with the required belly-dancers filling in time to the 3PM 2nd-last prayer.
      3 to 4PM was taken by a discussion of pay levels of the candle-makers – and how much a fatter or longer candle should cost, considering the recent lack of wax from the ear-cleaning factory. No shoes were thrown.
      All reporters were given the transcripts of what they could print in university study-books, and once again ‘peace’ settled over the country for another month. A country secure in Multi-God’s loving hands.

      1. MeYosemite Avatar
        MeYosemite

        Did you get the chance to see the traffic in down town in the vision?

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Sorry Yosemite … there seemed a strange grey haze over that part …. nothing clearly seen of cars … although the impression of huddled masses was more prominent under the dark edges of my thoughts.

        2. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Sorry Yosemite … there seemed a strange grey haze over that part …. nothing clearly seen of cars … although the impression of huddled masses was more prominent under the dark edges of my thoughts.

  4. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    Do not criticize a solution without having one to replace what you criticize. First, short of having a secular system any proposal will be wrong. In that atmosphere sweeping the middle east where the power is split across the Shia / Sunni divide and Islamic rules adopted right and left where the entire planet has left religion to matters of the spirit and not government minorities need to have some representation which is fair and representative of their aspirations.
    In my district for instance, the christian candidate who wins the election is the one aligned with the Sunni majority. So a Aouni (despite my disdain to him) will never have a chance even though the aspiration of the region’s christians is at present aligned with Aoun’s. Even if a candidate is neutral or centrist or a technocrat he or she has no chance whatsoever even if one can have the majority of the Christian votes. I am sure it is the same way in the Shia dominated South. So short of having that religion stupidity totally gone from our hearts and minds and system I see no harm with the Orthodox proposal.

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      Anonymous

      I have had ‘The Vision’.  (there were trumpets, I swear it)
      (In The Year of All the Lords – 2030 )
      The religious Heads of Lebatopia – plump and eating well in a large warm lighted room of the ‘All-together Temple’ – gathered for their monthly ‘pray-together-meeting’ and to discuss how ‘the country’  (which no longer needed an army or weapons – being peaceful and regulated by ‘thought-laws’ from The Good Books which were masterfully blended by former propagandists to explain the service of the peasants for God and Humanity and certain Pontificated Purities – (the ones in this room)),  might consider extending electricity beyond the Holy City of Beirut to those who plant food and tend goats in daylight; how many colours a pole should be striped with; and how high on Mt. Olive it should be planted in it’s glorious symbolism of  ‘1’.

      The morning session having been used up listening to a simple paint-techie describing the difficulty of spiralling 18 colours the length of an electrical pole, it was decided to hire 18 (representative) advisors to form a ‘committee of equality’ to study the problem and report in a future meeting. All agreed it was the best way. (As written in ‘Main Law’ 69 – rev72.)
      Lunch was served – wine on one side of the room, coffee on the other (as written in ‘Goodness Me Law’ 481 – rev.89) – with the required belly-dancers filling in time to the 3PM 2nd-last prayer.
      3 to 4PM was taken by a discussion of pay levels of the candle-makers – and how much a fatter or longer candle should cost, considering the recent lack of wax from the ear-cleaning factory. No shoes were thrown.
      All reporters were given the transcripts of what they could print in university study-books, and once again ‘peace’ settled over the country for another month. A country secure in Multi-God’s loving hands.

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        Anonymous

        Did you get the chance to see the traffic in down town in the vision?

        1. Avatar
          Anonymous

          Sorry Yosemite … there seemed a strange grey haze over that part …. nothing clearly seen of cars … although the impression of huddled masses was more prominent under the dark edges of my thoughts.

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