الى من يعارض الحياد لانه لا يتناسب مع الموقف الوطني من العدو الاسرائيلي، كيف يفسر الانحياز والاصطفاف في محور اقليمي ضد الدول الصديقة والشقيقة ؟

By Najia Houssari — arabnews.com — BEIRUT: Demonstrators blocked roads across parts of Lebanon on Monday in protest at the country’s economic meltdown, days after its currency sank to new lows. There has been little progress since Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government was appointed in September after more than a year of political deadlock. Roads were blocked by piles of burning tires in central Beirut, Tripoli in northern Lebanon and the southern city of Sidon. Schools were forced to close in Beirut after the protests made them inaccessible to students. Protesters in the city’s southern suburbs, meanwhile, blocked the road to the airport in front of Al-Aytam station. Less than 24 hours before the Beirut protests, residents of Ali Al-Nahri, in the Bekaa Valley, launched their own protests, shouting “we are cold and hungry.”

A spokesperson for the protesters said: “We will take to the streets more frequently in the coming days unless the governing authority put a stop to the deteriorating living conditions the Lebanese are facing.” He added: “The people of Beirut are noble. They are fighting extremely hard for their city and their livelihood. “They are not thieves, and today’s move does not have any political, electoral, parliamentary or ministerial dimension. Its sole purpose is the livelihood of citizens after a large number of students now go to school without any food.” In a UNICEF report published last week, the agency said: “More than 30 percent of families have at least one child in Lebanon who skipped a meal, while 77 percent of families say they lack sufficient food and 60 percent of them buy food by accumulating unpaid bills or borrowing money.”

by cpj.org — New York, – Lebanese authorities should drop their prosecution of journalist Radwan Mortada and refrain from imprisoning members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On November 26, the Permanent Military Court in Beirut sentenced Mortada, a reporter for the local daily Al-Akhbar and the news website The Cradle, […]

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday he did not agree with the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah on dismissing the judge investigating the Beirut port blast. Tarek Bitar is leading an investigation into an explosion at Beirut port that killed more than 200 people on Aug. 4 last year. Report ad Hezbollah, […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Friday the group had spent more than $10 million on free and subsidized fuel sourced from Iran for the Lebanese people since September. In a televised address, Nasrallah said $2.6 million worth of fuel had been provided for free to Lebanese NGOs, municipalities, government hospitals […]

ليلتف الجميع حول البطريرك لانه ينطق بالحق والحرية والسيادة ويجاهر بهم بكل شجاعة من اجل حماية لبنان…لم يفت الاوان بعد …

NNA – Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, affirmed that “the parliamentary elections are not only a periodic constitutional entitlement, but a stage to renew national life through democracy and popular will.” “It is time for parliamentary life to regularize, so that political forces compete under the constitution’s roof for change for the better, so […]

by middleeast.in-24.com — The results of the Dental Syndicate elections in Lebanon that were held on Sunday were canceled, after several verbal disputes and fistfights between doctors and the throwing and breaking of ballot boxes. Al-Jadeed channel reported that the results were canceled after complete chaos and the objection of some doctors to their inability to view the results on a screen placed in the counting hall due to a technical malfunction, and complaints about the lack of transparency of vote counting.

The Captain of Dentists, Roger Rubeiz, confirmed in a statement to the channel that he will sue an unknown person because of what happened, hoping that the surveillance cameras have documented this. He pointed out that the union will call for other elections according to its bylaws. And talking about the presence of people who do not belong to the dental profession in the screening hall, he said: “It is not possible to control this large number of people in the hall.” The head of the “Phalange Party” Sami Gemayel commented on the event in a tweet on his account via “Twitter”, saying: “What happened in the Dentists’ Syndicate elections is shameful and shameful.” He added, “Armed Hezbollah elements from outside the doctors attack the screening staff and smash boxes in a scene that does not bode well for the upcoming parliamentary elections.”

من عطل عملية الفرز في نقابة اطباء الاسنان ؟ القمصان البيض او القمصان السود ؟ هل هذا هو النموذج لاي انتخابات مقبلة ؟ بعد القضاء حان وقت النقابات ؟

By NAJIA HOUSSARI — arabnews.com — BEIRUT: The Beirut Bar Association has urged all officials to refrain from interfering with the judiciary and respect the law and work of institutions. Nader Kaspar, head of the association, said: “The lawyers stand in solidarity with the judges and the Judicial Council.” His statement came as the confrontation between Hezbollah and the Lebanese judiciary took a dangerous turn. The party has accused Judge Tarek Bitar, who is leading the probe into the Beirut port explosion, of “politicizing the investigation.” In the past few days, the Justice Palace in Beirut has been abuzz with news about the resignation of several judges in protest at the poor conditions the judiciary is experiencing, due to political interference on the one hand and the economic situation on the other.

Former public prosecutor Judge Hatem Madi told Arab News: “What is happening increases the state of disgust within the judicial body. These pressures should not affect the course of the judiciary’s work, but how long can the judiciary stand its ground in light of a pressing financial and economic crisis? “Pressure has always been exerted on the judiciary. If the judiciary had surrendered, the judges would have resigned a long time ago. They want to remove Bitar at any cost. They have paralyzed the government and they want to do the same to the judiciary, but the latter has so far been steadfast.” The president of the Fifth Chamber of the Court of Cassation Judge Jeannette Hanna, public defender Judge Carla Kassis, and president of the Court of Appeal Judge Rola Al-Husseini have submitted their resignation. However, the head of the Supreme Judicial Council Judge Suhail Abboud rejected these resignations, asking the judges to “hold back.”