Al-Rahi: State Institutions Alone Can Protect Citizens
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stated on Wednesday that one cannot boast of his power if he lives in closed security zones.
He said: “Administrative, judicial, and military institutions alone can protect citizens.”
He made his statements at a dinner banquet thrown in his honor in Houston, Texas as part of his ongoing tour of the United States.
“One cannot boast of his power by standing before a crowd and accusing the other of treason,” he continued.
“Many figures in Lebanon don’t see past their own noses and they only work to achieve their petty interests, which is unacceptable in our world,” the patriarch stressed.
“No one is above his country’s institutions as they alone ensure the citizens’ rights,” al-Rahi said.
Addressing regional developments, he said: “Lebanon is an effective member of the United Nations and it is unacceptable for it to be closed off from the world.”
13 October 2011, 17:24
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He said: “Administrative, judicial, and military institutions alone can protect citizens.” does he now agree that the Hizb weapons are no longer needed?!!! I sure hope so.
13 October 2011, 17:35
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did you notice this guy also adapts the story according to the whom he's talking.
13 October 2011, 17:41
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Read and think properly
He is saying the following.
Hezb keeps the weapons and so called resistance until Lebanon land in the Unknown farms are liberated.
Therefor in order to take away this pretext for resistance and arms, the Lebanese government ( as Syrians are busy with their own internal problems) and the International community including Major powers and UN should force Israel to evacuate and liberate the farms no one want,
Then there will be no need for resistance excuses.
The Lebanese Army will not be dragged into this imaginary conflict....
13 October 2011, 17:52
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@jabalhabal
it seems you do not know hoe to read!
already putting everything in the hands of the army and the state is enough and implies it.
furthermore please read this again and understand it: “One cannot boast of his power by standing before a crowd and accusing the other of treason,”
hope you are not as habal as you seem. :)
13 October 2011, 17:56
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“One cannot boast of his power by standing before a crowd and accusing the other of treason”
jabal min el habal look he's talking to you numbnut and to the Zionist infested Iranian terrorist so called Islamic revolution in Lebanon..
... but not to groundhog hassan the coward hasn't been before a crown (except cockroaches and rats) since he hid in the sewers in fear for his life a trick he learned from the coward in chief Aoun who ran away and deserted his troops 21 years ago today, they covered themselves in glory while he will forever rot in hell.
13 October 2011, 18:36
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jabalamel is right, this guy is so ignorant he doesn't understand that everything he says is immediately published he thinks we still use the Well Fargo's overland mail services stagecoaches, typical.
13 October 2011, 19:37
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monseigneur rahi: didnt walid beik informed u that turning is SLOWLY.
13 October 2011, 20:02
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he had to change his narrative
very few came to welcome him and his tour in the US is a total fiasco
especially if you compare it to past visits of leb patriarchs.
13 October 2011, 23:34
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Now you are talking. I do not know what happened but Al rai got inspired apparently while visiting the US!
14 October 2011, 00:06
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how can maronites still support this man? he insulted the memory of thousands of christians murdered by the syrian regime which he defends...
14 October 2011, 02:05
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Too later your holiness you've already sold us. Time for a real resistance.
14 October 2011, 10:37
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the filthy zionist information war department is trying to convince someone (probably themselves) that no one wants shebaa farms.
14 October 2011, 10:48
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while you can be sure that we will get not just shebaa, but 7 villages also
