Lebanon Christian leader slams election law
BEIRUT (AFP) - Christian hardline leader Michel Aoun, who returned home at the
weekend after 15 years in exile, savaged Lebanon's electoral laws that have set the framework for polls planned to start this month.
He said that the Syrian-tailored electoral law of 2000 that breaks Lebanon into large constituencies marginalises Lebanon's Christian community which wants smaller voting areas.
"We will never submit ourselves to this situation and we reject folkloric meetings that are held to promote the scenarios of alliances that are nothing but treachery and falsehood," he said.
His comments, made following talks with Maronite Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, came hours after Lebanon's Maronite bishops warned the law would disrupt the country's fragile Christian-Muslim coexistence.
Lebanon Church Seeks New Election Law
By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's powerful Maronite Catholic Church on Wednesday rejected the election law drafted under Syrian dominance as unfair and asked that it be revised before parliamentary elections this month that have been pushed by Washington.
Maronite Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir did not call for a boycott or postponement of the elections slated to begin May 29, but his challenge to the election law could further complicate efforts to start the vote on time.
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Rocket from Lebanon hits Israeli town
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A short-range rocket fired from Lebanon struck a town in northern Israel on Wednesday, damaging a building but causing no casualties, Israeli security sources said.
They said the 107 mm Katyusha rocket, with a range of 9 km (5.5 miles), struck a factory in the border town of Shlomi as residents celebrated Israel's Independence Day.
A Hizbollah spokesman in Beirut had no comment on the report and there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Hariri's son enters Lebanon election race amid Christian warnings
BEIRUT (AFP) - Saadeddin Hariri, son of the slain former premier Rafiq Hariri, has thrown his hat into the ring for elections which Christian bishops warned could upset Lebanon's delicate religious coexistence.
Hariri, whose father was killed on Februar
y 14, planned to unveil his electoral list Tuesday night but delayed the move amid cracks within the anti-Syrian Lebanese opposition.
The government, under pressure from the international community, said elections for a 128-seat parliament will take place on four consecutive Sundays starting May 29, a month after Syria pulled its troops from Lebanon.
The polls will be based on a Syrian-tailored law used in the last polls in 2000 that breaks Lebanon into large constituencies, seen as unfavourable to the large Christian minority which is demanding smaller voting areas.
Population Movements to Keserwan - The Khazens and The Maans
ما جاء عن الثورة في المقاطعة الكسروانية
ثورة أهالي كسروان على المشايخ الخوازنة وأسبابها
Origins of the "Prince of Maronite" Title
Growing diversity: the Khazin sheiks and the clergy in the first decades of the 18th century
Historical Members:
Barbar Beik El Khazen [English]
Patriach Toubia Kaiss El Khazen(Biography & Life Part1 Part2) (Arabic)
Patriach Youssef Dargham El Khazen (Cont'd)
Cheikh Bishara Jafal El Khazen
Patriarch Youssef Raji El Khazen
The Martyrs Cheikh Philippe & Cheikh Farid El Khazen
Cheikh Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Hossun El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou-Nawfal El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Francis Abee Nader & his son Yousef
Cheikh Abou-Kanso El Khazen (Consul De France)
Cheikh Abou Nader El Khazen
Cheikh Chafic El Khazen
Cheikh Keserwan El Khazen
Cheikh Serhal El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Rafiq El Khazen [English]
Cheikh Hanna El Khazen
Cheikha Arzi El Khazen
Marie El Khazen