Bassil says can't stand idly by as Israel strikes Beirut, kills children
Free Patriotic movement chief Jebran Bassil said the FPM cannot stand idly by as Israel strikes Beirut and kills children.
Bassil's comment, late Thursday, came two days after an Israeli air strike killed a Hezbollah top commander in Haret Hreik. The raid on the Beirut suburb, an overcrowded residential area, killed siblings Amira and Hassan Fadlallah as well as three women and injured dozens of civilians.
Bassil criticized the "selective sovereignty" of some parties, in an apparent reference to the Lebanese Forces.
"We can't be human and not feel sad when we see Lebanese and Palestinian children dying in a brutal and inhumane way in Beirut and Gaza," Bassil said.
"We cannot call ourselves sovereign if we see our homeland threatened by an enemy warning to send us back to the Stone Age and we do not condemn it," he added. "We cannot be neutral, we cannot reject war if Israel started it."
02 August 2024, 15:13
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Cure the disease, don't waste still more time on just the symptoms ...
02 August 2024, 15:31
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“My message is for the international community to see that these warlords are both incapable and unwilling to deliver justice. As long as they fail to assist us, as long as we, the victims of the August 4 blast, and Lebanon itself remain without redress, peace will continue to elude us.”
Source: https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2024/08/02/four-years-after-beirut-blast-lebanon-s-quest-for-justice-remains-unfulfilled
02 August 2024, 20:39
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He looks like a carrot.
Bassil's pompous rantings about “not standing idly by as Israel strikes Beirut and kills children” is to cover up the official expelling of Alain Aoun from the FPM. He's worried, this dismissal might lead to the wholesale resignations from the Tayyar.
