THE REASON FOR ALL LEBANON'S CATASTROPHES
IS THE FRONT THAT WAS OPENED AGAINST ISRAEL--
THIS FRONT MUST BE CLOSED
Sami Gemayel
MEMRI, June 8, 2009

In an address broadcast June 1, 2009, Sami Gemayel, newly elected Lebanese MP and
son of former Lebanese president Amin Gemayel, stated that the reason for all Lebanon's
catastrophes is the front opened against Israel, and that this front should be closed.
The address aired on Future News TV (to view this clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2132.htm)....

June 1, 2009: The Reason for All Lebanon's Catastrophes Is the Front That Was Opened
against Israel--This Front Must Be Closed

Sami Gemayel: "This used to be the best country in the world. This country used
to be called 'Switzerland of the East.' The older people among us still remember
 how good life in Lebanon used to be.

"Let's try to remember when things began to change, when our lives changed. It changed
when the front in South Lebanon was opened. It changed in 1969, when some people
 decided to turn Lebanon into a rocket launching pad against Israel. This is when
our catastrophes began. This is exactly when our catastrophes began.

"We should be completely realistic. We will not bring an end to this black era in
the history of Lebanon, we will not bring an end to the Lebanese [civil] war and
 to all our catastrophes unless we deal with the reasons for these catastrophes,
 and close the front in South Lebanon in a final manner. Final, final, final!

"There was no weaponry in Lebanon before this front was opened, and the issue of
 illegal weaponry will not come to an end unless we close this front. Today, we
are committed to a peaceful, civilized, developed Lebanon, which will not come to
be as long as there is a front in the South...

"Moreover, when the front in the South was closed by Resolution 1701, they shifted
this front to the center of Beirut, to the Shouf area, and to Aley."...