Hizbullah-FPM Understanding Passes New Solidity Test
Source: Al-Manar, 31-01-2008
Harsh were the speeches made by some of February 14 leaders analyzing the black Sunday incidents and criticizing once again the understanding signed between "Hizbullah" and the "Free Patriotic Movement". However, the question one could ask is whether last Sunday would have ended the same as it did if there weren't actually such an understanding or would the damages have been even bigger? A few days before the second anniversary of the Hizbullah-FPM understanding on the 6th of February, the document finds itself suddenly at the center of political debates and accusations by the same group that looked negatively at the Muslim - Christian approach between the two parties. This group seized Sunday's bloody incidents to make false statements and portray the protest which ended with a massacre, as an attack launched by "Chiyah" Muslims against "Ain El Remmeneh" Christians. With these statements, some February 14 figures sought to hold the FPM responsible by accusing it of "failing to make the right alliance" (with Hizbullah). "All available information prove that there wasn't any attack against the Ain El Remmeneh region," Gebran Bassil, the FPM political relations official said. Bassil added that a statement by the Ain El Remmeneh mayor, that no attack had taken place, backs his words. "We are facing a new attempt to damage the understanding among Lebanese however, it proved that it was stronger than all incitement campaigns that some parties tried carry out", he added. Ghaleb Abu Zeineb, "Hizbullah" politburo member, agrees with Bassil. He said that "all the politicians who are trying to cause damage to the understanding are actually the ones who wish to build barriers in between Lebanese regions and the ones whose political status depends on separating "Chiyah" from "Ain El Remmeneh"."
Harsh were the speeches made by some of February 14 leaders analyzing the black Sunday incidents and criticizing once again the understanding signed between "Hizbullah" and the "Free Patriotic Movement". However, the question one could ask is whether last Sunday would have ended the same as it did if there weren't actually such an understanding or would the damages have been even bigger? A few days before the second anniversary of the Hizbullah-FPM understanding on the 6th of February, the document finds itself suddenly at the center of political debates and accusations by the same group that looked negatively at the Muslim - Christian approach between the two parties. This group seized Sunday's bloody incidents to make false statements and portray the protest which ended with a massacre, as an attack launched by "Chiyah" Muslims against "Ain El Remmeneh" Christians. With these statements, some February 14 figures sought to hold the FPM responsible by accusing it of "failing to make the right alliance" (with Hizbullah). "All available information prove that there wasn't any attack against the Ain El Remmeneh region," Gebran Bassil, the FPM political relations official said. Bassil added that a statement by the Ain El Remmeneh mayor, that no attack had taken place, backs his words. "We are facing a new attempt to damage the understanding among Lebanese however, it proved that it was stronger than all incitement campaigns that some parties tried carry out", he added. Ghaleb Abu Zeineb, "Hizbullah" politburo member, agrees with Bassil. He said that "all the politicians who are trying to cause damage to the understanding are actually the ones who wish to build barriers in between Lebanese regions and the ones whose political status depends on separating "Chiyah" from "Ain El Remmeneh"."
