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Forest fires rage again in Lebanon
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by Rouba Kabbara, BEIRUT (AFP) – Fires raged on Wednesday for the second time this month across hectares (acres) of forest in Lebanon, threatening the natural wealth of a country once known as the Switzerland of the Middle East. Emergency crews backed by army helicopters struggled to extinguish blazes which broke out on Tuesday in the mountainous northern regions of Qobayat, Ayto and Karm Saddeh, a civil defence official told AFP.

But police and civil defence authorities had no reports of casualties."The fires have been raging in all three regions since yesterday," the official added."Civil defence workers and army helicopters have been struggling to put them out, especially the one in Ayto because there are no roads leading to the area," he said.Fires also spread across forests of pine and oak trees as well as valleys and woods around Bisri, Sfaray and Mashmusheh in southern Lebanon, another civil defence official added. The fires are still raging and we are trying to prevent them from reaching homes," he said.

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Presidential candidate may click with Lebanese
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By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, BEIRUT — Lebanese politics are notoriously cumbersome and convoluted. On Monday, squabbling politicians again delayed a decision on choosing a new president, this time putting it off until Nov. 12. The deadline before the country is hurtled into a constitutional crisis is Nov. 24, when President Emile […]

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“عناصر نجاح التو&#1575
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"عناصر نجاح التواصل بيــــــن القيادات باتت متوافرة" 
الخازن لـ"المركزية": شخصية الرئيـس مهمة بقدر مواصفاته 
والكرة في الملعب اللبناني لأن التقارب الخارجي غير وارد الآن
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المركزية – رأى عضو تكتل "التغيير والاصلاح" النائب فريد الخازن ان كل عناصر نجاح التواصل بين القيادات على الصعيد الداخلي باتت متوافرة وإن لقاءات عدة ستجمع عددا من الاقطاب هذا الاسبوع من شأنها الوصول الى نتيجة ما يبتغيها الجميع. ولاحظ ان شخصية الرئيس العتيد مهمة جدا وليس فقط مواصفاته، معتبرا ان الكرة اليوم في الملعب اللبناني لأن التقارب الخارجي غير وارد راهنا. 
وقال النائب الخازن في حديث الى "المركزية": دخلنا في مرحلة الجدية القصوى في التعاطي مع الاستحقاق الرئاسي، فقبل اسابيع قليلة لم يكن التواصل الحاصل اليوم ممكنا خصوصا على المستوى المسيحي ودونه اهمية مبادرة بكركي التي وضعت الامور في مسارها الطبيعي اذ ان الحاجة ماسة الى التواصل المسيحي بشأن الاستحقاق الرئاسي، واستمرار عمل اللجنة الرباعية ابلغ دليل على مدى التعاطي الجدي وإرادة التواصل يضاف اليه لقاء الرئيس امين الجميّل بالنائب العماد ميشال عون الذي لم يكن ليحصل لولا تغير الظروف والاجواء. 
وعما حتّم تغير المعطيات وأوجب ظروف التواصل وهل ان وراء ذلك انفراجات اقليمية او دولية لها انعكاساتها على الساحة الداخلية قال: قبل الآن لم يكن التعاطي جديا كان هناك تسجيل مواقف من مواقع مختلفة ووضع حدود للعبة فالمعارضة كانت تنادي بنصاب الثلثين فيما كانت الموالاة تقول بالنصف زائدا واحدا، اليوم خرجنا من هذه المعادلة ووصلنا الى خط سارت فيه البطريركية المارونية وهو يؤكد على حصول الانتخاب من جهة وإطار الثلثين وفقا للدستور من جهة اخرى ومجرد القبول باللقاءات التي تحصل راهنا يعني القبول بهذين الطرحين وإخراج فكرتي النصف زائدا واحدا وعدم انتخاب رئيس، يضاف الى ذلك الضغط العام نتيجة الازمة الكبيرة في البلد. 
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French FM crashes Beirut wedding party
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BEIRUT (AFP) – French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner began his visit to Beirut at the weekend by crashing a wedding party and dancing the dabke, or traditional Lebanese dance, with the bridal couple. Kouchner was dining at a fish restaurant in the Lebanese capital with friends and decided to pay a visit late Friday to the bridal […]

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Lebanese factions show signs of progress
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By Hani M. Bathish , Daily Star staff, BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun and former President Amin Gemayel held talks on Sunday at the residence of a common friend in Rabweh. The meeting between Aoun, a key opposition player, and Gemayel, a stalwart of the ruling March 14 coalition, was still under way when The Daily Star went to press, but the talks were believed to be aimed at breaking the impasse over the election of Lebanon’s next president.

The relationship between the two men suffered a downturn in the aftermath of the Metn by-election in August, when Gemayel lost to FPM candidate Camille Khoury for the seat made vacant by the assassination of the former president’s son, Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. In another sign of a possible rapprochement, the National News Agency reported late Sunday that Lebanese Forces (LF) MP Georges Adwan had visited Aoun at the latter’s residence in Rabieh earlier in the day.

Meanwhile, the diplomatic weight of three European foreign ministers, as well as a positive meeting between Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri, failed to settle the presidential issue.  Gemayel, speaking to Voice of Lebanon radio on Sunday, said Tuesday’s session would be postponed for 10-15 days. Both camps have said more time is needed to build consensus on a candidate, and Berri and Hariri at their Friday meeting progressed to the stage of discussing names.

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الحضور المسيحي ف
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مجلس بطاركة الشرق الكاثوليك

المؤتمر السنوي 15-19 تشرين الاول 2007 
  
 

الحضور المسيحي في الشرق والنزاعات السياسية 
 

النائب الدكتور فريد الخازن 
 

نتناول في هذه المداخلة موضوع الحضور المسيحي في الشرق والنزاعات السياسية, و تحديدا النزاعات السياسية المعسكرة و ليس فقط النزاعات السياسية داخل الدولة بين الحكم والمعارضة او النزاعات السياسية بين الدول و التي تدار سلميا, كالنزاعات, مثلا, حول الحدود بين عدد من الدول العربية. ثمة نزاعان مسلحان قائمان اليوم على طرف النظام الاقليمي العربي و لا يرتبطان مباشرة بموضوع البحث: النزاع في دارفور في السودان الذي ادى الى خسائر كبيرة و الى تهجير مئات الآلاف من الناس و تشريدهم, والنزاع حول الصحراء الغربية بين المغرب والجزائر. النزاعات التي تعنينا مباشرة و تؤثر في حضور المسيحيين و دورهم هي نزاعات دول المشرق العربي و تداعياتها التي تصل الى مصر حيث العدد الاكبر من مسيحيي الشرق. النزاعات او الانقسامات السياسية في دول عربية اخرى كدول الخليج لا تؤثر مباشرة على الوضع المسيحي بالشكل والمضمون كما يؤثر النزاع العربي-الاسرائيلي و حرب العراق, و كما اثرت حروب لبنان المتعددة منذ منتصف سبعينات القرن المنصرم. 

منذ انتهاء الحرب الباردة في اواخر ثمانينات القرن العشرين, لم تشهد منطقة في العالم نزاعات مسلحة كتلك التي شهدتها منطقة الشرق الاوسط ان لجهة عددها و طبيعتها أو لجهة تداعياتها التي تجاوزت دول المنطقة و شعوبها. و ما من منطقة في النظام العالمي المعاصر كانت مسرحا لنزاعات داخل الدول و فيما بينها مثل ما هي الحال في منطقة الشرق الاوسط. معظم النزاعات التي حصلت في انظمة اقليمية اخرى في آسيا و افريقيا و اميركا اللاتينية انتهت اما اثناء الحرب الباردة (الحرب في كوريا و فيتنام, و نزاعات مسلحة في افريقيا وآسيا) او مباشرة بعد انتهائها, خصوصا في بلدان اوروبا الوسطى و الشرقية.  

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Lebanon MPs unlikely to pick president at next session
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by Jocelyne Zablit Tue Oct 16, 5:47 AM ET  BEIRUT (AFP) – With less than a week to go before Lebanon’s parliament convenes again to elect a president, all indicators are that the session is doomed to fail or will be cancelled for lack of consensus among the country’s feuding political factions. There is a lot of brinkmanship on both sides which will make it difficult to get the election as early as October 23," Oussama Safa, head of the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies, told AFP" And with so much posturing going on, I think they will probably wait until the very last minute to elect a president, if a president is to be elected."

Nassib Lahoud, a candidate for the presidency also said he believes next week’s session would not take place, with opposing sides waiting until the 11th hour to strike a deal. "In one way or another we would like to give more chance for an agreement to be reached," he told AFP. "The more time and the more pressing the deadline, the more one has a chance to reach an agreement."

Several MPs who showed up on Tuesday for the first regular parliament session in a year admitted that they were not yet ready to pick a successor "The current situation does not justify the session even taking place next week as nothing indicates willingness to reach an agreement," said MP Hussein Hajj Hassan. "I think the session won’t even take place for lack of a quorum."The special session next Tuesday was called by parliament speaker Nabih Berri, aafter MPs on September 25 failed to reach agreement on a consensus candidate to replace President Lahoud.

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BACKGROUND: Lebanese prisoners still held in Israeli jails
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Beirut – During the 33-day Israeli war on Lebanon a number of new names were added to the list of Lebanese detainees still held in Israeli jails. Maher Kourani, 26, from Yater village in Bint Jbeil district, married with a 3-year-old child. Maher’s house and his family’s house were destroyed completely during the conflict. His wife, child and mother live at his brother’s home in the village.

Hussein Sleiman, 22, from Bint Jbeil. Single and lived with his family in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The house was destroyed during bombing which pushed the family to move to another area in Beirut. He was still studying at the Lebanese University. Mohammed Srour, 20, from Aita Shaab village, single and lived with his family whose home was totally destroyed, forcing them to move to their relatives. He was still studying when taken.  Hassan Akeel, 46, from Jebeen village, married and has four children, works in agriculture. He was abducted on August 14, 2006 by Israeli forces two weeks before the ceasefire. Although he has schizophrenia and the Red Cross submitted reports to prove it, the Israelis are still detaining him.

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