Hizbullah Satisfied over Govt. Formation: It Won’t Succumb to Foreign Dictates

Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Tuesday stressed that his party is “satisfied over the formation of a new cabinet, especially that it represents all the sectors of the Lebanese society.”

Following talks with Sports and Youth Minister Faisal Karami, Qassem noted that “those who did not join it (cabinet) have the right to scrutinize its performance,” describing accountability as “part of our political system in this country.”

“We will hear groans coming from those who were surprised” by the new parliamentary majority’s ability to form a new cabinet, Qassem said.

“But it will draft its ministerial Policy Statement and take its political, economic and social steps in line with Lebanon’s interest and without succumbing to U.S.-Israeli dictates,” Hizbullah number two said of the new government.

Qassem also stressed that the new cabinet enjoys “solid popular support,” noting that it will hold onto “the army-people-Resistance formula of strength.”

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Thumb shab almost 13 years

Who cares what you think? filthy militia leader

Default-user-icon Beiruti (Guest) almost 13 years

We have with this new line up, the Justice Ministry with the Aounists who will use the Ministry to prosecute all who came before it, in selective political prosecutions, a gross abuse of the criminal justice system, which is similar to the days of Syrian Hegemony when the Ministry was used to punish enemies of the regime.

We have the Interior Ministry under the domination of Hezbollah. This ministry is to be charged with executing the arrest warrants to be issued from the STL.
Mikati is speaking bravely now of the new cabinet honoring the international obligations of the Republic, when he leads a government filled with those who have resisted Lebanese honoring of its international commitments and obligations. Hezbollah is the beneficiary of violations of UNRES 1701, so now they will enforce and honor 1701? It is pure nonsense.
And for this jackel to say that the cabinet has "broad public support" begs the question, why did it lose the last 2 elections?

Default-user-icon Beiruti (Guest) almost 13 years

This regime has come to power not by a surge at the ballot box, but riding on Hezbollah's weapons, their use and the intimidation created by the threat of their future use, primarily exercised against Walid Jumblatt. This is no expression of "broad public support", but the fruits of seizing power by force of arms.
It is telling that the first to recognize this gang who has taken over Lebanese state institutions and to congradulate it is the Assad Regime. The neighbor who promises reform and who practices it by slaughtering its own citizens in the streets for their blood to run down the gutter.
God willing, if this gang allows elections in 2013 knowing that it is surely to lose for a 3rd straight time, its giddo in Damascus will be either gone or so weakened that it will not be able to again rebuke the will of the Lebanese people.
Lebanese people, now is the time to remain strong, defiant and to constitute the TRUE RESISTANCE to foreign domination. The threat comes from the east.