Lebanon detains three for call to kill Palestinians

[Marwan]

(AP)

16 September 2005
BEIRUT — Police on Wednesday arrested three officials of an ultranationalist Christian group, a day after they called on Lebanon to kill Palestinians and withdraw from the Arab League, a judicial official said.

Prosecutor Mukhtar Saad said the three members of the outlawed Guardians of the Cedars — Naji Audi, journalist Habib Younis and Joseph Khoury — were detained for “issuing a statement that incites internal sedition.”

On Tuesday, the detainees issued a statement during a Press conference saying “every Lebanese should kill a Palestinian.” The group has long called for the expulsion of Palestinian refugees and their descendants from Lebanon.

The comments revived bitter memories of Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war, which pitted armed militias from across this country’s sectarian divides against each other. Right-wing Christian forces, including the Guardians of the Cedars, joined forces with Israeli troops who invaded in 1982, waging a bloody campaign against Palestinians led by the late Yasser Arafat backed by Lebanese militias.

About 350,000 Palestinian refugees, including thousands of armed radicals, still live in Lebanon, crammed into a dozen densely populated camps around the country.

Prime Minister Fuad Saniora’s office issued a statement saying the comments “shocked him as well as the Lebanese people and were issued by a group that still lives the illusions of the past.”

Saniora described the call to kill Palestinians as ‘racist,’ adding “Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon are brothers that Lebanon is committed to their cause.”

Prosecutor Saad told The Associated Press he expected the three to be formally arrested on charges.

Under Lebanese law, a detainee can be held for up to four days, with a possible extension. Afterward, the detainee is either released, freed on bail or formally arrested on charges.

[Ariksan]

Sooner or later the colonialist Arab occupation of Lebanon and the entire middle east and north africa will end.

[minusthejihad]

I just listened to the Hitchens vs Galloway debate that took place right here on American soil, and heard Galloway call for the murder of Americans, Britons and Israelis (Jews) to a room full of cheering communists, anarchists, and radical leftists. Then he walked right out and went where he wanted.

Just yesterday, the terrorist president of Iran who openly calls for the murder of Americans, Israelis (Jews) and anyone else the mullahs hate was given a pass to come talk to the UN in New York of all places, just around the corner from where people he praises launched attacks that killed many Americans.

That is the difference between the West and the Rest. You post an article about Arabs trying to kill each other in the third world and expect people to be surprised? What is you point?

Do you want people to jump right in and say they think its wrong to call for the murder of Palestinians? Well it is!

Is there anything else?

[Marwan]

Dude, Ahmadenijad? He called for the death of America & Israel? Really?

And I think it's pretty evident now that Mutapha was not involved in the embassy mess.

[minusthejihad]

Dude, Ahmadenijad? He called for the death of America & Israel? Really?

And I think it's pretty evident now that Mutapha was not involved in the embassy mess.

More of a nuance, as part of conquering the whole world:

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Pa...ran&ID=SP94505

[Mediocrates]

So why is it again that Lebanon has never granted citizenship to all of its Palestinian so called refugees again? I wonder if the Palestinians have a bitter taste in their mouths when fellow arabs call for their explusion/extinction just because of who they are.


>> . << Here's my mercy, throw yourselves on it.

[KSO]

So why is it again that Lebanon has never granted citizenship to all of its Palestinian so called refugees again? I wonder if the Palestinians have a bitter taste in their mouths when fellow arabs call for their explusion/extinction just because of who they are.


>> . << Here's my mercy, throw yourselves on it.

For the same reason Israel can't accept millions of African or Asian refugees, it completely changes the country demographically and culturally.

[Mediocrates]

There are about 250,000 Palestinians according to their own sources, living in Lebanon, a country of about 3.8 million people. That's about 6.6% and guess what, they don't have to be absorbed because they've already been there for 35 years.


Anyway aren't you an ex Russian who threw himself on Israel?

[KSO]

There are about 250,000 Palestinians according to their own sources, living in Lebanon, a country of about 3.8 million people. That's about 6.6% and guess what, they don't have to be absorbed because they've already been there for 35 years.


Anyway aren't you an ex Russian who threw himself on Israel?

The Lebanese regime (much like the zionists) always tried to keep a demographic balance liking which they desire, and those 6% is the differnce between lebanon a christian country and Lebanon Muslim country.
I also think that should be absorbed if they chose to.
And I'm not ex Russian, I am an ex Soviet.

[Mediocrates]

Yeah whatever, run for the border. Sucks to be them I guess. Maybe they can set up light housekeeping in Gaza to keep Lebanon 'pure'.