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Headlines : GovernmentLebanese Strike a Blow at US Backed Government
The Christian Maronites of Lebanon appear to have voted for a man opposed to the majority government of Fouad Siniora in Beirut. Camille Khoury, with a strong vote from the Armenian Tashnak party, won by 418 votes the seat that belonged to Pierre Gemayel, who was murdered last November. With the rate at which Lebanese MP’s get murdered it is no wonder that Mohamed Itani, a Sunni Muslim who was blown up in June, scored 85 per cent of the vote for the seat of Walid Eido. Can a democracy thrive in an environment such as this?
[Posted By supercanuk]Republished from The Independent
They’ve done it again. The Arabs have, once more, followed democracy and voted for the wrong man.
Just as the Palestinians voted for Hamas when they were supposed to vote for the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, so the Christian Maronites of Lebanon appear to have voted for a man opposed to the majority government of Fouad Siniora in Beirut. Camille Khoury—with a strong vote from the Armenian Tashnak party—won by 418 votes the seat that belonged to Pierre Gemayel, murdered last November by gunmen supposedly working for the Syrian security services.
While the Maronite vote had increased against Gemayel’s showing in 2005 elections, the result was a stunning blow to the American-backed government—how devastating that phrase “American-backed” has now become in the Middle East—in Lebanon and allowed Hizbollah’s ally, ex-General Michel Aoun, to claim that “they cannot beat me”. Mr Aoun is a candidate in presidential elections later this year.
Posted by supercanuk
Yabut you can bet the French are closing in. Those are the investments that were destroyed when first the mysterious “they” cooked Hariri and the same mysterious “they” then made Israel do all that bad stuff. That wasn’t Lebanese money, my friends, that was Lebanese promises to pay.
And they can. They’d be good for it — if certain parties would just keep their sticky fingers in their own pockets.
I“m not saying it would all have been halal floose.