From le Monde, via SyriaComment, here.
"...Les Américains refusent notre tentative de sortir le Hezbollah de son isolement. Et ils soutiennent sans faille le gouvernement de Fouad Siniora contre ce projet. George Bush a annoncé il y a une semaine le gel des avoirs de ceux qui agissent contre le "gouvernement légitime" du Liban, dont nous contestons la légitimité depuis un an. Trois jours avant l'élection de dimanche, cette menace a effrayé ceux qui nous soutiennent de leurs dons..."
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Aoun is a maverick in lebanese politics. He adds a lot of freshness to the stale political narrative in Lebanon. He is the most rational among the madmen that pretend to lead, notwithstanding Nasrallah who is the true safeguard against any new civil war
Excerpts- General Michel Aoun- Al Jazeera interview
August, 11 2007
The US Administration has interfered in Lebanon’s internal affairs and has taken sides in the latest by-elections in the Metn elections by providing support for former president Amine Gemayel.
We do not want to fight the US. The US is not our enemy but we need to know what the US wants from us.
The policy the US is advising us to implement threatens our existence as Lebanese of all confessions. That’s why we can’t accept it.
We ask the US Administration to re-evaluate their positions in Lebanon so that we can find common grounds.
The US has provided an unconditional and excessive support for the Siniora government which has made PM Siniora unwilling to make any compromises or even find solutions to internal issues.
The US says they want to implement the 1559, so we provided them with the Memorandum of Understanding that provided the framework for the implementation of this resolution but they refused it.
Isolating Hezbollah brings us back to the 70s, i.e. the beginning of the Lebanese war which started when the Kataeb party was isolated, and we paid a heavy price for it.
Translated at my blog today. There is an english translation at NOW but it is a bad one...
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