Geagea brands Hezbollah’s call for dialogue as ‘crazy idea’

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nasrallah 071913Hezbollah chief claimed on Friday on TV via video link that his party is ready to participate in any National Dialogue session aimed at exploring a national defense strategy designed to face Israelโ€™s threats to Lebanon .

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, who made the statement during the annual iftar banquet hosted by the Resistance Support Committee in Beirutโ€™s southern suburbs also warned against attempts to splinter the Lebanese Army along sectarian lines, saying the military was the only guarantee left to preserve the country and its state.

โ€œWe are always ready to attend National Dialogue or any dialogue to discuss a national defense strategy before the formation of a Cabinet or after its formation,โ€ Nasrallah said.

He added : โ€œWe are ready to discuss a defense strategy … This country is for all of us. There is a serious national need in Lebanon to draw up a national defense strategy,โ€ he said.

He added that during the last National Dialogue session in September 2012 attended by March 8 and March 14 leaders in Baabda, Hezbollah presented a blueprint for a national defense strategy, but claimed that the โ€œother sideโ€ (March 14 leaders) did not seriously discuss it because their main aim was to for Hezbollah to hand over its weapons to the Lebanese Army.

Nasrallahโ€™s remarks came three days after President Michel Suleiman said he planned to reconvene the stalled National Dialogue between the March 8 and March 14 leaders in order to reassert commitment to the โ€œBaabda Declarationโ€ amid deep national divisions over the bloody conflict in Syria.

During a National Dialogue session he chaired in Baabda last September , Suleiman proposed a national defense strategy that would allow Hezbollah to keep its arms but place them under the command of the Lebanese Army, which would have exclusive authority to use force.

Under the proposal, Hezbollah would not hand over its weapons to the Army, as demanded by the March 14 coalition, at the same Hezbollah defense ‘s plan which is based on coordinating its war and and peace decisions with the Army will also be dropped.

Amid fears of strife as a result of the repercussions of the war in neighboring Syria, Nasrallah called on the Lebanese to be โ€œextremely vigilantโ€against attempts to destabilize the country, stressing the need to preserve the Lebanese Army as the only guarantee for national survival.

โ€œI call on the Lebanese to be extremely vigilant in light of the current sharp divisions in the country,โ€ he said.

โ€œVigilance is required from everyone and in all regions. Internal security is the responsibility of the state. We should be vigilant during this difficult period,โ€ Nasrallah said.

Referring to criticism by some March 14 politicians against the military, Nasrallah warned that if the Army broke up or was paralyzed, there would be no state, peace or stability in the country.

โ€œTherefore, we need this Army. In its absence, there will be no state and no country,โ€ he stressed.

Nasrallah slammed March 14 calls to exclude Hezbollah from the next government, saying the policy of isolation would lead nowhere.

โ€œWe are against the theory [of isolation and exclusion]. We are receptive to discussions and we can agree on some issues, while we can neutralize divisive ones,โ€ he said. โ€œDespite rivalry between us and the other side, we extend our hands for discussion and meeting together.โ€

Hezbollah has led military offensives alongside the Syrian Army against the Syrian rebel groups and maintains a large armed presence in Syria to aid its President Bashar Assad.

Crazy idea
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, a key member of the March 14 alliance decried Hezbollah’s call for dialogue

He said a statement on Saturday that Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah was is in no position to call for National Dialogue as along as his party is deeply involved in the Syrian conflict.

โ€œSayyed Nasrallah is calling for dialogue, while less than a year after the agreement on the Baabda Declaration… Hezbollah fighters are taking part in battles across Syria,โ€ he said.

โ€œIt would be a crazy idea to repeat such a Dialogue experience,โ€ added Geagea.

The LF leader explained that Hezbollah did not abide to the Baabda Declaration although the party signed and approved the agreement among Lebanon rivals to keep the country away from violence in the region, mainly the war in Syria.

Suleiman’s response

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Saturday called for distancing Lebanon from the ongoing conflict in neighboring Syria.

โ€œWe must distance our country from regional conflicts which is the growing repercussions of the Syrian crisis,โ€ Suleiman said during a graduation ceremony on Saturday.

The president also reiterated his call for โ€œthe resumption of national dialogue in order to find the most appropriate ways to guarantee Lebanonโ€™s best interest and manage its affairs.โ€

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42 responses to “Geagea brands Hezbollah’s call for dialogue as ‘crazy idea’”

  1. Jimmy Thorr Avatar
    Jimmy Thorr

    Mr. Geagea I totally agree with you, this guy Mr. Nasrallah is living in a world of dreams, he wants dialogue while his party military wing fights openly in Syria’s civil war and breaking the Dissaciation policy he agreed on and putting all of us in Lebanon in Danger , he behave as supreme military commender of Lebanon deciding on the matters of war and peace and to hell with every body else opinion , they dont count. The answer to this is to unite muslims sunnis and those of shiites who thinks clearly of Lebanon before their loyalty to Hezbollah, christians , druze and all other minorities and affectivley form our unified military militia force and islotae destroy Hezbollah, this party does not listen to anything but the langauage of force and as long as they have their arsenal of weapons they will not ever listen to anyone else. Keeping talking to this bastard Nasrallah is useless and waste of time, we all in Lebanon have to understand this, unless we all rise and face this party with Force not just words and amke it clear to the lebanese army command to side with the majority of us in Lebanon and not to this devil party Hezbollah, there is no hope to save our country and preserve it and achieve real peace and stability and justice to all those who were killed by the hands of this Hezbollah devil party ( sarting with Rafiq Hariri and up to wissam Alhassan) , Only by being unified and by force will we ever change this sad picture in Lebanon today. .

    1. man-o-war Avatar
      man-o-war

      “unite muslims sunnis and those of shiites who thinks clearly of Lebanon before their loyalty to Hezbollah, christians , druze and all other minorities and affectivley form our unified military militia force and islotae destroy Hezbollah”, that is a terrible idea. You want to form a militia to destroy a militia, where does that get us?

      Most of the Shia will side with HA and they also have non-shia allies. What you’re suggesting is isolating and attacking 40% of the countries population. You really want another civil war? There has to be a better way to deal with the issue. I don’t know how, but I do know your suggestion would only create more animosity and strife.

      1. The real lebanese Avatar
        The real lebanese

        HA brought it to itself

    2. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Geagea was right (again) in his statement about the involvement of the ‘not-involved’ of Lebanon, and old Nasty is up to the political tricks, recognizing the need to kiss-ass a little with a larger part of the population ticked off with Syrian deployment this time in Lebanon by refugees – not it’s army. The basic problem is that he drags out the old ‘Israeli Defence’ lines again and again.
      But unification is not going to come by a sword. Join the street demonstrations of the people who want secular equal rules, rights of women to be a part of it, and a government that functions for the good of a whole country; and by THAT method ONLY, educate the ones who cower in fear behind the weapons and ‘religiosity’ all the time. Put your money into the much-less-expensive-than-weapons ways of advertising REAL IDEAS of those who want some peace and prosperity in a unified Lebanon … for once in it’s history, try a pen with a sharp quill which opens the fearful closed minds – and physically harms no-one with it’s inked messages.
      Let ‘Nasty & Co’ know they need to come up with a response other than fighting the ghosts of the past, to have a future.

      1. dateam Avatar

        Your acceptance of gagea (again) is contradictory to what you claim to want….call a spade a spade…noone is clean in all of this…both sides have been on one side of the 2 faced coin from the start….

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Right dateam … where did I say I accepted him? But if there’s something said that’s accurate or good thinking you can’t just dismiss it because you don’t like the guy who said it. Just take it out of everything else … use it … and use it against him if he says somewhat the opposite in future.
          I don’t have to like him or even pretend I’d vote for him … but even these guys come out with something that makes sense on occasion. Hell, even that loon Aoun has made one I acknowledged at a point in time.
          And perhaps old Nasty says something right too … but what we SEE is a ‘party’ that wants to be able to ‘veto’ everyone else whenever they wish, and runs off to fight a war we agree they shouldn’t be in. We don’t even think there should be a need to have a war, for god’s sake.

          1. dateam Avatar

            Again…to your point and applying what you have stated are you saying that you agree with gagea that its crazy to speak to the other side or applying what you have said are you saying that nasrallah is right and they should talk? In order to resolve something you need to talk..even enemies talk…the palestinians and israelis talk…the 2 koreans talk….iranians and americans talk…and when analyzing situations you need to look at both sides if you claim to want the best….both sides have been involved the only difference is one side eventually came out and said yes we are involved while the other side is still in denial that it was ever and still is involved.And everyone has a master the hzb iran and gagea ksa….We have been waiting for a defense strategy since 2006 yet noone has offered anything? its not just a matter of handing weapons in because where do we put these weapons? In a warehouse so israel comes and bombs it? We are talking about real and heavy duty weapons that if they came under the command of the army can potentially upgrade our armies capabilities significantly..all this can be worked out…now whether a person agrees or disagrees is not the point when looking at a situation its what practical steps are taken to resume talks and ensure the well being of a population. gagea talks alot however he dosent offer anything else in return…..and the reality the way i see it 5th is that noone wants to resolve the situation because they are ALL waiting for the outcome in syria….what happens to m14 if assad stays and what happens to m8 if assad goes? alignments and realignments..everyone has placed their bets and we are still waiting to see what happens…look at england recently they have said they are no longer going to arm the rebels because they feel assad is staying and they know parliament will no longer approve it? We need to fix it and the only way to do it is to talk. Again lets be realistic here and call a spade a spade one side takes orders from iran and the other from the gcc…the gcc member for eg qatar funds the brotherhood and another gcc member uae arrests them for spying so you see who and what do we follow…we will never be able to understand the politics however what we want is for our politicians to stop playing with our lives and form a frigin government and allow us to live. Its like musical chairs everytime one side makes a positive move the other squashes it and on the circus rolls.

          2. The real lebanese Avatar
            The real lebanese

            Date, the only reason HA wants to talk is because it is feeling isolated. And last time the 2 sides talked, they agreed on disassociation. And look where we are now. HA is running a massive operation in Syria. And as you said, everyone is waiting to see what happens in Syria before they do anything. HA called for the dialogue, not Geagea. Geagea is just stating that HA wants nothing but power in the next cabinet and want to reach this by sucking up to neutral politicians. Thats basically what he’s wanting everyone to get out of his message.

          3. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            you want to be realistic and call a spade a spade?
            here’s spade one: you don’t have a gun
            spade two: he has one
            how can you “realistically” sit with someone to negotiate anything when he can force his will at gunpoint or has the power to totally disregard what you have to say during these “negotiations”?
            What Nasrallah is calling for are not negotiations or a dialogue table, he wants all these little punks who call themselves the “politicians” to gather up so that he can “dictate” on them the new rules of the game and show them, for those who forgot, that he’s still the only one with a gun.

      2. libnan1 Avatar

        5th, many people thought he was right back in the 80ies like my mom said. I don’t really know who he speaks for except himself and as dateam said he might have couple of seats in parliament paid for by Hariri and voted for by Sunnis. The only 3 people that should negotiate representing their sects are Aoun, Nasrallah and Hariri. The rest are irrelevant.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Ok Libnan .. fair enough. What a sorry choice then for those who look for the secular state of equality to ever exist. One who rants and raves, one who hides in an underground TV studio, and one who tweets from safer places.
          Hmmm .. since most of us here are doing that, maybe we should just hang with Hariri and take the ski-lessons the idiot Assir turned down. ๐Ÿ˜‰
          Like your Mom perhaps, I am getting to a point where I don’t care any more. The never-ending story has become boring. Religion drove us out.

        2. MekensehParty Avatar
          MekensehParty

          LOL
          The only 3 people allowed to negotiate are Nasrallah, Nasrallah and Nasrallah
          anyone who thinks otherwise needs a new brain

    3. dateam Avatar

      How about everyone clean their own backyard first before blaming everyone else? Was it not 3 weeks ago in tripoli they tore down pictures of hariri and placed pictures of assir up? who is right and who is wrong? If you truly want peace and someone offers to sit down and talk then the first step is to sit and talk…gagea is the last person to call someone crazy with his history yet others seem to have forgiven him have they not and allowed him into the circle again? Is he not now in partnership with the people he used to once kill? Its not time for bravado to earn brownie points especially when you only have 2 seats in parliament. We want peace so its time to sit down and talk.

      1. The real lebanese Avatar
        The real lebanese

        Theres no point in talking to a liar, date.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Actually, ALL the pictures hanging anytime anywhere are an eyesore. A blight on the landscape. Why they are allowed to hang long after any election is beyond me. It’s like billboards with annoying adverts. Yucch.

        1. master09 Avatar
          master09

          What bout the ones with girls wearing lingerie, yum not yucch.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Ok, ok master09 … I accept the ladies … as long as they are not ‘photoshopped’ into barbie-dolls with missing fingers … hehehehhe

  2. Jimmy Thorr Avatar
    Jimmy Thorr

    Mr. Geagea I totally agree with you, this guy Mr. Nasrallah is living in a world of dreams, he wants dialogue while his party military wing fights openly in Syria’s civil war and breaking the Dissaciation policy he agreed on and putting all of us in Lebanon in Danger , he behave as supreme military commender of Lebanon deciding on the matters of war and peace and to hell with every body else opinion , they dont count. The answer to this is to unite muslims sunnis and those of shiites who thinks clearly of Lebanon before their loyalty to Hezbollah, christians , druze and all other minorities and affectivley form our unified military militia force and islotae destroy Hezbollah, this party does not listen to anything but the langauage of force and as long as they have their arsenal of weapons they will not ever listen to anyone else. Keeping talking to this bastard Nasrallah is useless and waste of time, we all in Lebanon have to understand this, unless we all rise and face this party with Force not just words and amke it clear to the lebanese army command to side with the majority of us in Lebanon and not to this devil party Hezbollah, there is no hope to save our country and preserve it and achieve real peace and stability and justice to all those who were killed by the hands of this Hezbollah devil party ( sarting with Rafiq Hariri and up to wissam Alhassan) , Only by being unified and by force will we ever change this sad picture in Lebanon today. .

    1. man-o-war Avatar
      man-o-war

      “unite muslims sunnis and those of shiites who thinks clearly of Lebanon before their loyalty to Hezbollah, christians , druze and all other minorities and affectivley form our unified military militia force and islotae destroy Hezbollah”, that is a terrible idea. You want to form a militia to destroy a militia, where does that get us?

      Most of the Shia will side with HA and they also have non-shia allies. What you’re suggesting is isolating and attacking 40% of the countries population. You really want another civil war? There has to be a better way to deal with the issue. I don’t know how, but I do know your suggestion would only create more animosity and strife.

      1. The real lebanese Avatar
        The real lebanese

        HA brought it to itself

    2. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Geagea was right (again) in his statement about the involvement of the ‘not-involved’ of Lebanon, and old Nasty is up the political tricks, recognizing the need to kiss ass a little with a larger part of the population ticked off with Syrian deployment this time in Lebanon by refugee – not it’s army. The basic problem is that he drags out the old ‘Israeli Defence’ lines again and again.
      But unification is not going to come by a sword. Join the street demonstrations of the people who want secular equal rules, rights of women, and a government that functions for the good of a whole country; and by THAT method ONLY, educate the ones who cower in fear behind the weapons and religiosity all the time. Put your money into the less-expensive-than-weapons ways of advertising REAL IDEAS of those who want some peace and prosperity in a unified Lebanon … for once in it’s history, try a pen with a sharp quill which opens the fearful closed minds – and physically harms no-one with it’s ink.

      1. dateam Avatar

        Your acceptance of gagea (again) is contradictory to what you claim to want….call a spade a spade…noone is clean in all of this…both sides have been on one side of the 2 faced coin from the start….

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Right dateam … where did I say I accepted him? But if there’s something said that’s accurate or good thinking you can’t just dismiss it because you don’t like the guy who said it. Just take it out of everything else … use it … and use it against him if he says somewhat the opposite in future.
          I don’t have to like him or even pretend I’d vote for him … but even these guys come out with something that makes sense on occasion. Hell, even that loon Aoun has made one I acknowledged at a point in time.
          And perhaps old Nasty says something right too … but what we SEE is a ‘party’ that wants to be able to ‘veto’ everyone else whenever they wish, and runs off to fight a war we agree they shouldn’t be in. We don’t even think there should be a need to have a war, for god’s sake.

          1. dateam Avatar

            Again…to your point and applying what you have stated are you saying that you agree with gagea that its crazy to speak to the other side or applying what you have said are you saying that nasrallah is right and they should talk? In order to resolve something you need to talk..even enemies talk…the palestinians and israelis talk…the 2 koreans talk….iranians and americans talk…and when analyzing situations you need to look at both sides if you claim to want the best….both sides have been involved the only difference is one side eventually came out and said yes we are involved while the other side is still in denial that it was ever and still is involved.And everyone has a master the hzb iran and gagea ksa….We have been waiting for a defense strategy since 2006 yet noone has offered anything? its not just a matter of handing weapons in because where do we put these weapons? In a warehouse so israel comes and bombs it? We are talking about real and heavy duty weapons that if they came under the command of the army can potentially upgrade our armies capabilities significantly..all this can be worked out…now whether a person agrees or disagrees is not the point when looking at a situation its what practical steps are taken to resume talks and ensure the well being of a population. gagea talks alot however he dosent offer anything else in return…..and the reality the way i see it 5th is that noone wants to resolve the situation because they are ALL waiting for the outcome in syria….what happens to m14 if assad stays and what happens to m8 if assad goes? alignments and realignments..everyone has placed their bets and we are still waiting to see what happens…look at england recently they have said they are no longer going to arm the rebels because they feel assad is staying and they know parliament will no longer approve it? We need to fix it and the only way to do it is to talk. Again lets be realistic here and call a spade a spade one side takes orders from iran and the other from the gcc…the gcc member for eg qatar funds the brotherhood and another gcc member uae arrests them for spying so you see who and what do we follow…we will never be able to understand the politics however what we want is for our politicians to stop playing with our lives and form a frigin government and allow us to live. Its like musical chairs everytime one side makes a positive move the other squashes it and on the circus rolls.

          2. The real lebanese Avatar
            The real lebanese

            Date, the only reason HA wants to talk is because it is feeling isolated. And last time the 2 sides talked, they agreed on disassociation. And look where we are now. HA is running a massive operation in Syria. And as you said, everyone is waiting to see what happens in Syria before they do anything. HA called for the dialogue, not Geagea. Geagea is just stating that HA wants nothing but power in the next cabinet and want to reach this by sucking up to neutral politicians. Thats basically what he’s wanting everyone to get out of his message.

          3. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            you want to be realistic and call a spade a spade?
            here’s spade one: you don’t have a gun
            spade two: he has one
            how can you “realistically” sit with someone to negotiate anything when he can force his will at gunpoint or has the power to totally disregard what you have to say during these “negotiations”?
            What Nasrallah is calling for are not negotiations or a dialogue table, he wants all these little punks who call themselves the “politicians” to gather up so that he can “dictate” on them the new rules of the game and show them, for those who forgot, that he’s still the only one with a gun.

      2. libnan1 Avatar

        5th, many people thought he was right back in the 80ies like my mom said. I don’t really know who he speaks for except himself and as dateam said he might have couple of seats in parliament paid for by Hariri and voted for by Sunnis. The only 3 people that should negotiate representing their sects are Aoun, Nasrallah and Hariri. The rest are irrelevant.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Ok Libnan .. fair enough. What a sorry choice then for those who look for the secular state of equality to ever exist. One who rants and raves, one who hides in an underground TV studio, and one who tweets from safer places.
          Hmmm .. since most of us here are doing that, maybe we should just hang with Hariri and take the ski-lessons the idiot Assir turned down. ๐Ÿ˜‰

        2. MekensehParty Avatar
          MekensehParty

          LOL
          The only 3 people allowed to negotiate are Nasrallah, Nasrallah and Nasrallah
          anyone who thinks otherwise needs a new brain

    3. dateam Avatar

      How about everyone clean their own backyard first before blaming everyone else? Was it not 3 weeks ago in tripoli they tore down pictures of hariri and placed pictures of assir up? who is right and who is wrong? If you truly want peace and someone offers to sit down and talk then the first step is to sit and talk…gagea is the last person to call someone crazy with his history yet others seem to have forgiven him have they not and allowed him into the circle again? Is he not now in partnership with the people he used to once kill? Its not time for bravado to earn brownie points especially when you only have 2 seats in parliament. We want peace so its time to sit down and talk.

      1. The real lebanese Avatar
        The real lebanese

        Theres no point in talking to a liar, date.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Actually, ALL the pictures hanging anytime anywhere are an eyesore. A blight on the landscape. Why they are allowed to hang long after any election is beyond me. It’s like billboards with annoying adverts. Yucch.

        1. master09 Avatar
          master09

          What bout the ones with girls wearing lingerie, yum not yucch.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Ok, ok master09 … I accept the ladies … as long as they are not ‘photoshopped’ into barbie-dolls with missing fingers … hehehehhe

  3. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Nasrullah lives in the sewer and never comes out.He need to come out from the smelly sewer and participate in politics in person

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      I’d bet that he still gets tinted windows … ๐Ÿ˜‰

  4. wargame1 Avatar
    wargame1

    Nasrullah lives in the sewer and never comes out.He need to come out from the smelly sewer and participate in politics in person

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      I’d bet that he still gets tinted windows … ๐Ÿ˜‰

  5. master09 Avatar
    master09

    The only reason a threat is FN there is because we have your F…NNNNNN GUNS pointed at Isreal. THATS FCNNNNN A CRAZY IDEA DONKEY BREATH….but lets just keep brainwashing the people…..WAR WAR that’s all you talk about…

  6. master09 Avatar
    master09

    The only reason a threat is FN there is because we have your F…NNNNNN GUNS pointed at Isreal. THATS FCNNNNN A CRAZY IDEA DONKEY BREATH….but lets just keep brainwashing the people…..WAR WAR that’s all you talk about…

  7. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    “We are always ready to attend National Dialogue or any dialogue ”
    ready to attend yeah
    but ready to listen? dream on!!

  8. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    “We are always ready to attend National Dialogue or any dialogue ”
    ready to attend yeah
    but ready to listen? dream on!!

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