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Discussion with MP Dr. Farid Elias el Khazen

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January 7, 2011

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حاوره: فؤاد دعبول وايوب خداج
تقويم الصفحات الاخيرة، من العام الماضي، كان مع النائب في كتلة التغيير والاصلاح الدكتور فريد الخازن، ناقش الاحداث بتداعياتها والوقائع باسلوب سياسي، وبفكر جامعي وثقافة سياسية.
في نقاشه لملف الأحداث، يرى الدكتور فريد الخازن ان الازمة الآن مرتبطة بالمحكمة الدولية وتداعياتها من جهة، وبالوضع السياسي القائم حالياً، خصوصاً قضية شهود الزور.
ويشدد على وجود قضايا طارئة ولا نقوم بها. امامنا موضوع مطروح يتعلق بترسيم الحدود البحرية بيننا وبين اسرائيل، لان هناك نفطاً وغازاً في قلب البحر، وموضوع يتعلق بكيفية ادارة الشؤون المالية للدولة.

ويدعو الدكتور الخازن الى اداء سياسي مختلف ووضع حد للهدر، وتحسين الادارة اللبنانية.
ويحث على انشاء السلطة القضائية المستقلة، وهذا هو مفتاح حل المشاكل الطائفية السياسية، لأنهم يتحولون الى طوائفهم، لعدم ثقتهم بالدولة والقانون، لانه عندما يطبق القانون ويأخذ القضاء دوره باستقلالية عن السياسيين، تنخفض نسبة الطائفية واحتماء الاشخاص بزعماء طوائفهم.
واعرب عن امله بمخرج للازمة المتعلقة بالمحكمة الدولية، وان كانت مضامينها غير معروفة، واعتقد اننا سنصل الى تسوية تجنبنا اي انعكاس سلبي على الوضع العام. وهذه هي وقائع الحديث:

نحن في مطلع عام جديد، هل تتوقعون ان يكون عام ازدهار وخير على لبنان ام عام مشاكل يعجز عن حلها؟

- لا يزال لبنان يواجه عدداً من الملفات المأزومة ولم يتعاف بشكل كامل من سنوات الحرب الماضية، ومن مرحلة ما يُسمى بالوصاية، ولا نزال نبحث لايجاد نقطة توازن في النظام السياسي وعمله. علماً انه منذ العام ٢٠٠٥ ولغاية ٢٠٠٨، مر لبنان بأزمات سياسية. وهذا النظام السياسي اللبناني لم يكن قادراً على التعامل مع المرحلة الانتقالية التي جرت بشكل سريع وغير مسبوق في العام ٢٠٠٥. واعني هنا بالتطورات الكبيرة كاغتيال الرئيس رفيق الحريري، وانسحاب الجيش السوري، وانتفاضة الاستقلال والتحول الكبير في العلاقات الاميركية - السورية والتحول السياسي الدولي تجاه لبنان. هذه كلها حصلت في فترة زمنية لا تتجاوز ٩٠ يوماً.

The year that wasn’t – Lebanese summary and reeview of 2010 and Predictions for 2011

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January 1, 2011

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Please click Read More to view Michel Hayek predictions of 2011

(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News ) As Lebanon bids farewell to 2010, it also bids a bittersweet goodbye to the hope that some 500 items on the Cabinet’s agenda – and on the agenda of the Lebanese people – would receive the attention they deserve.

Lebanon’s politicians have been busy warning the public daily that civil strife and unrest could break out with the issuing of an indictment by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the 2005 killing of Rafik Hariri.

Unrest related to events in The Hague is a possibility. But so is the outbreak of unrest that springs from the failure to address people’s needs and grievances.

The daily business of government is not a luxury. When the government fails to act on the poor situation of electricity, water supplies, sanitation, road safety, infrastructure, or the economy, to name just a few items, resentment and despair grow to dangerous proportions.

If a given community feels it’s getting short-changed by the government, while other parts of the country “get their share,” tension over seemingly trivial things like a broken power line or unfinished road works can easily become a mini-sectarian war. It doesn’t take grand statements from the Hague to push the country to the brink.

It is no cliché to state that poverty, like the Cabinet’s paralysis, affects all sects. The political stalemate is eating away at the reputation of the government, and of the political system itself. If left untreated, it will eventually have a negative impact on investors and the business community, and lead to a drying up of political support from abroad. A government mired in such an impasse will find itself less and less capable of earning others’ respect, or securing their much-needed cooperation.

Lebanon has in the past lurched from one year to the next, suffering from an acute lack of planning and political vision. But 2010 will be remembered as the year of the infamous 500-item Cabinet agenda, which brings to mind the way the government allows garbage dumps to grow to frighteningly large sizes, until a bout of bad weather brings collapse, with disastrous consequences.

Lebanon has entered the Guinness Book of World Records of late, for its giant plates of tabbouleh and hummus, but the pile of accumulated policy paralysis also deserves mention in a record-book somewhere.

Elsewhere, countries will be entering the new decade by making huge efforts to provide better lives for their citizens. In Lebanon, the political class lives in denial, subsists on grandiose rhetoric, and waits for solutions from the outside world. But no solution will be durable unless Lebanese shoulder their portion of responsibility in 2011, acting with courage, creativity and inspiration. Otherwise, another lost year awaits.

Please click read More for exclusive Michel Hayek Video and Predicitons for Lebanon, Lebanese and Middle East in 2011. Prediction that covers the whole middle eastern region.

Al Qaeda threatens 100 Egyptian-Canadian over conversions to Christianity

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December 25, 2010

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Khazen.org prays for all of the Christians executed around the World in this Christmas this include our thoughts and prayers for the Christian Families of Iraq, India, Egypt, Somalia and many more.

Two episodes of the very "Christianophobia" described by Benedict XVI in his address to the Curia. A website close to Al Qaeda publishes a list of "dogs in diaspora" responsible for conversions. In Somalia, the Islamists destroy and burn down an "underground" Christian library.

VANCOUVER, Canada (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Canadian newspapers report that more than 100 Arab-Canadian Christians have been put on a list published by a website close to Al Qaeda, apparently charged with encouraging conversions from Islam. The website Shumukh-al-Islam, often seen as an Al Qaeda propaganda tool, has created a list with photos, addresses and phone numbers of Coptic Christians, most with dual Egyptian and Canadian nationality, who spoke openly against Islam.

Three web pages, in classical Arabic, entitled "Complete information on Copts" are meant to "identify and call by name all the Copts in the world who hope to defame Islam" and refers to them as "dogs in diaspora".

In the website forum a member, who goes by the name "Son of a sharp sword," writes: "We will return to Islam and all the mujahideen will cut off their heads." One of the people included on the list told reporters: "This is a direct threat to our lives. They are trying to inform one another in the hope that someone can carry out this threat. It could be here, or in Egypt. " Some of the people only found out they were on the list when the Canadian security services contacted them. The existence of such sites is often criticized even by the defenders of freedom of expression, but some security experts say that in reality they are a great resource for those fighting terrorism.

Hit the slopes in Lebanon – Faraya Mzar – Cedars ski

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December 3, 2010

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Minty Clinch, As the Lebanese ski mostly at weekends, the agenda makes a lot of sense. From Sunday to Thursday, visitors have the slopes to themselves. On Fridays and Saturdays, they can watch the locals flaunt their cutting-edge designer clothes on the slopes. Frequent direct flights from Abu Dhabi take just two-and-a-half hours, and Beirut's city-centre airport makes for short transfers, so Lebanon is a highly practical alternative to a short break in the Alps.

Although it's a tiny country, Lebanon punches way above its weight in many areas, not least the spectacular Roman ruins at Baalbek, the ancient port at Byblos and the impressive grottos at Jeita. Geographically, it has parallel mountain ranges with the fertile Bekaa Valley - home to what it claims are the world's oldest vineyards - in between. The Cedars and Mzaar, the two resorts with international appeal, and half a dozen local hills are scattered along the western coastal range overlooking the Mediterranean.

The French introduced skiing in Cedars, in the north of the country towards the Syrian border, during the mandate years in the last century. From the mid-1920s, they rode up the mountain on donkeys, accompanied by villagers carrying their skis. During the Second World War, British soldiers on leave from North Africa headed to Beirut by train, rented leather boots and long hickory skis and hitch-hiked the 130 kilometres to Cedars to flounder up and down the hillside as best they could.

The base station is at 2,000m and the pioneering chairlifts which were installed in 1953 are still running today, backed up in 2005 by some triple chairs that only operate when there are enough customers to justify the expenditure on electricity. The iconic cedar trees, the emblem on the national flag, are conspicuously absent in the large bowl that makes up the ski zone. I'd imagined from old photographs that I'd be weaving my way among them in knee-deep powder. Wrong on both counts.

here is a small plantation of mini cedars at the bottom of the resort next to a longish street of stalls selling cedar memorabilia. The trees are supposedly protected, but their slow growth combined with an increasing commercial imperative don't stack up too well for the future. In a bad snow year, with no skiing until the beginning of February and rapid melt down by the end of it, the powder was also conspicuously absent.