Category: Lebanon

France 5 broadcasted yesterday a 52 minutes documentary about the Gemayel Family and its martyrs. The documentary is in French and I think everyone should watch it because whether you agree with them politically or not, you can’t deny that they played a big role in Lebanon’s history.

From Ouwet.com

I am currently starting to doubt more and more that the politicians and the countries that control them will agree on a president in the next couple of days. But if they do I hope one of those guys don’t become our president for the next 6 years:

-Amine Gemayel, Well we already tried him, that’s all what I am going to say.

-Michel Eddeh, Like Frangieh once said: I thought that a Syrian tank went over him while they were withdrawing since he threatened to jump in front any withdrawing Syrian troops.

-Robert Ghanem, I hate people with no real opinion, he just takes a position that is not strong enough to make him part of a group but strong enough to make him close to it while still giving him the ability to switch sides whenever he wants.

Elie El Khoury is currently posting every day in his blog a topic addressed by Dimyanos Kattar in his various public appearances. He allready covered 4 topics which are:

1. The role of the younger generation
2. The role of Lebanon
3. The middle class
4. The role of the diaspora

By reading the posts you can tell that Kattar is not like the other presidential candidates, he does not come from a feudal family, he respects everyone and he has the will to work to build a better country.

I recently watched parts of an interview with him on NTV and discovered that this man is more than just an economist. During the war he was part of the red cross so he witnessed the atrocities committed by all the parties and helped ease the suffering of the Lebanese instead of taking sides like all the other presidential candidates. After the war he worked on many economic projects for Lebanon eventually becoming the minister of economy and finance in Mikati’s government. During this period Lebanese started to know him better and I personally admired the work he was doing and was surprised to see during one of the interviews that his home is just a modest normal home unlike the homes of the standard Lebanese politicians.

Kattar has all the qualifications that enable him to become a good president but in Lebanon people like him rarely succeed, he is an educated, clean person who worked for Lebanon all his life but can he lead the country with all those crazy politicians in the wild, how will he make a government liked by everyone and not be attacked by everyone? In a normal country he would make a great president but can he change anything in Lebanon if he does not receive some backing from the people?

They just wrote on LBCI that clashes may have started in the Palestinian camp of Bourj L Brajneh!

Update: on Lebanon file they are reporting that the clashes are on the “3amaliya” and “sa7it l kodess” side of the camp, the clashes are between Fate7 and the Kiyada l 3ama. Palestinians are on high alert in the Badawi camp.

Update 2: on Tayyar.org they wrote its a problem between two persons.

Ethiene Sakr also known as Abou Arez leader of the Guardians of the Cedar announced that he is running for president, I just read his statement on Tayyar.org and I must say he has some nice Ideas in his plan. He is not liked by many Lebanese from both sides and is accused of “collaborating with the enemy” (Israel) by some so he has no chance of becoming president but at least he has the guts to say what most other candidates are afraid of saying.