Hariri: Thousand Speeches Like Nasrallah’s Won’t Eliminate Lebanon’s Recognition of STL
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Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri slammed on Friday Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s recent speech on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, saying that it reflected his annoyance with the decision to fund the tribunal.
He said in a statement: “A thousand speeches like Nasrallah’s will not eliminate Lebanon’s recognition of the STL.”
He explained that the party leader’s annoyance was also directed against Premier Najib Miqati and reflected in a list of political conditions presented to him by the Free Patriotic Movement.
“These conditions create new tensions in the country, which Nasrallah claims are not cause by him,” the former prime minister stated.
Hariri criticized Nasrallah’s objections that the funding was possible through Arab and non-Arab donations, saying they hold no legal basis.
“The funding has taken place and Nasrallah has helped make it possible,” he added.
He explained that any donations received by Lebanon requires the cabinet’s approval and they become an integral part of public funds.
Hariri implied that Hizbullah controls the March 8-dominated government, and it therefore approved of these donations.
He therefore asked the party followers: “How can the Hizbullah leadership and secretary general cover the funding of a tribunal they claim to be an American-Israeli product?”
Nasrallah said Thursday his party would not “create a problem in the country” over Miqati’s decision to fund the STL, in order to preserve the national interest.
"Even though we remain opposed to the tribunal, we are not going to cause trouble as we place the country's national interest above all else," he said in a televised address.
His comments came a day after Miqati, following months of political wrangling, announced that he had transferred Lebanon's 49 percent annual share of funding to the STL, which is probing the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafik Hariri.
"We have not changed our mind: in our opinion, this court is unconstitutional, politicized and sponsored by Israel and the U.S., and it will remain so until the opposite is proven,” Nasrallah declared.
“We still reject any form of financing it or cooperating with it. Had a (cabinet) session been held to discuss the issue of financing, we would have voted against it. And had the issue been put to the vote of parliament, we would’ve also voted against.
“We reject to pay the money of the Lebanese people to finance such a tribunal,” Hizbullah’s leader stressed.
He revealed that he has been “told” that the money to finance the STL would come from “donations by certain sides and nations that will be deposited into the account of the High Relief Commission.”
02 December 2011, 15:17
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Nasrallah needed to save face when confronted with the STL funding. Refusing to fund it would have had a lot of repercussions, specially on the economic level, which would have had the worst possible effect on Hizbullah and mostly Aoun and Miqati's perspectives in the next elections in Lebanon. The Lebanese people would not tolerate leaders that bring poverty, and in the same time injustice. Hizballah is fighting on so many different fronts, they have their inner statelet to defend, they are building an infrastructure since decades to use in case of any future civil war in Lebanon, they are being criticized for all the illegal practices and the bypassing of the law. They are a hardline islamist entity but at the same time preaching against islamists in Syria (not in Egypt). The worse of all, the funding coming from Iran is vastly reduced, and the support they had from the Syrian dictator not only vanished, but they are now trying to support Bashar rather.
02 December 2011, 15:44
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funny how the M8 seem now to approve the STL funding!
last week they were fiercly against it threatening of a civil war or of resigning...
now that bashar told them to finance it they are claiming for victory!!
the irony is that they claim that hariri was ready to abandon the STL but they refused that and funded the STL which they say is an american israeli plot!!!
they are so illogical and so low in front of their master bashar...just cowards!
02 December 2011, 16:00
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hizbushaitan is building its infrastructure in preparation for its canton. they care less about the country.
clearly, yesterday in his speech, nasrallah was upset with one thing only: his inability to divide the sunnis like he divided the christians. hizbushaitan interest strategy is divide and conquer. a strong sunni coalition is not what he wants, and this is why they are providing support to miqati.
all this to say, they are preparing their canton which will be surrounded by areas where they have some presence through their allies.
02 December 2011, 21:30
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Sweating Demon...... interesting reasoning..... you must be a debate champion at the propaganda school.
First of all, your comments rely on the opinion of a known liar, this information is one-sided and not accurate.
Secondly the sewer dweller did not say that Saad agreed to sign a paper that ends the STL's work on the Rafik Hariri file. Here's what he said:
"certain countries were willing to sponsor an agreement to end (Lebanon’s) cooperation with the tribunal"
Other country's "sponsorship" of this proposal does not mean Saad Hariri agreed to it.
Furthermore, ending Lebanon's cooperation with the STL does not cancel the STL. The STL would still continue with or without Lebanon's cooperation.
And most importantly, where did you get the reasoning that something "must be true" if one person makes a statement and the other person doesn't refute it?
If someone makes a false claim, and if that claim is not refuted, it doesn't mean that false claim is true. Get real
02 December 2011, 21:50
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logic of hezbollah: we want hariri out, we want no STL.
hariri is out by the force of their arms, but still they financed the STL which they qualify as an israeli plot when as a governing party they could have cancelled!!!
so they are financing the israeli plot against themselves! so funny!
keep on clowns you make lebanon and the whole world laugh at you!
ah yes it s like when they say that bashar is a resistant against israel but never fired a single shot towards them! i got the logic now!
02 December 2011, 22:29
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the devil in bilad el arz has two faces:
the wahaby salafist represented by saado.. and the faqihi farsis represented by hassoun
MAY GOD RELIEVE LEBANON FROM THIS TWO FACES DEVIL, AND ALL THE IDIOTS FALLING IN THIS TRAP.
03 December 2011, 01:39
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Call it what you will, at the end of the day the Hizb controlled government made a strategic decision to fund the STL. Nasrallah can come out and say that he didn't support this, but we know it would not have happened without his approval.
The PM already said he would resign if he didn't get approval for STL, and that never happened. So to claim that Miqati did this all on his own is silly.
Nasrallah continues to insult our intelligence by telling us stories and thinking that we are silly enough to believe him.
