Robert Fisk Writes About Lebanon's Presidential Election

 

 

 

 

 

Emile Lahoud Is The Outgoing President Of Lebanon

 

 

 

 

Lebanon Is The Gem Of The Mideast

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lebanon Is Electing A New President

There are two Christian parties, Michel Aoun is pro-Syria, and his rival is Amin Gemayel, who is pro Israel/America.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Fisk Wonders If Lebanon Will Head For A Civil War

When, oh when, will the Lebanese Christians stop destroying each other? General Michel Aoun's Free Democratic Party stood yesterday, along with their pro-Syrian allies, against the Phalangist candidate Amin Gemayel, father of assassinated Pierre Germayel.

Fisk insinuates that Pierre Germayel was murdered by Syrians, or perhaps rival Christians. Aoun's movement garnered most of the Christian vote in 2005 legislative polls, but his popularity has waned since he forged a shock alliance last year with the Iran- and Syria-backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
 

 
   

 

 

 
 

Amin Germayel

Gemayel is an anti-Syrian Christian Maronite running for the office of Lebanon's president.

 

 
   

 

 

 

The Assassinated Pierre Gemayel

Pierre Gemayel, son of the putative successful candidate Amin, was shot to death in his car last November, and so a vote in his Christian favour, and against his presumed killers, the Syrian security services.
   

 

 

 

Lebanon Is Always A Step Away from A Civil War

The President of Lebanon must be a Maronite Christian, and Gemayel and Aoun are the rival candidates. Christians are a 25% subset, the others are Orthodox Christians, Sunnis, and Shiites.
   

 

 

 

Gemayel Warns His Rival

Gemayel says "the Metn will never be a suburb of Damascus'', adding Syria's political allies, especially Ali Qanso, of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, supported Aoun. The people of these hills - where his son is in the family crypt in Bikfaya - knew the ex-general was "dragging them to a battle they did not want'' and the electoral battle was "dancing over the blood of martyrs''.
   

 

 

 

Fisk Contends The Syrians Are Delighted

Yet again, the Christians are being divided - much, no doubt, to Syria's delight - and the danger of inter-Christian fighting, which last week took the form of stonings and beatings in the streets of Beirut, has been increased. The sectarian system of voting (courtesy, originally, of the League of Nations' French Mandate) meant the Armenian Tashnak party is supporting Aoun, a fact that has outraged the party's supporters in the state of Armenia. 

   

 

 

 

The Lebanese Sectarian System

Because the country is divided along Christian, Sunni, and Shiite lines Lebanon can never unite against Israel.
   
 

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Another Country Wrecked By Zionists

Lebanon has beaches, two mountain ranges, Beaqa Valley, Latani river, and is the most agriculturally productive country in the entire mideast. Before the 1975 Israeli instigated civil war, Beirut was the banking, cultural center, and an historic masterpiece, of the mideast.

Israel will turn it into a war ravaged sewer, install it's puppets, and absorb the Mosul-Tripoli pipeline, and refineries.

The amazing part is a three year old could see who is behind all of this, but Robert Fisk, who is considered the dean of Lebanon politics sees the Syrians, Iranians, etc. Everyone but the Israelis.

 
 

 

 

 

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