Lebanon: Future bloc slams Loyalty to the Resistance bloc

MP Ahmad Fatfat Lebanese Future bloc MP Ahmad Fatfat slammed Loyalty to the Resistance bloc leader MP Mohammad Raad, who earlier on Monday said the March 14, should withdraw their “daggers from Hizbollah’s back” before calling for dialogue.
“Raad knows very well that none of us knows how to use daggers as they are exclusive to those monopolizing militia arms,” Fatfat said in a statement Monday.
“The arms which attacked the army several times are what harms the army and its role,” the Future bloc MP added.
Earlier on Monday, Loyalty to the Resistance bloc leader MP Mohammad Raad said that “the other party”, an implicit reference to March 14, should “withdraw its daggers from Hizbollah’s back” before calling on it to engage in dialogue.
“Withdraw your daggers from our backs before calling for dialogue with us. Prove your credibility and exonerate yourselves from being involved in security violations and sectarian strife in the region,” the Lebanon National News Agency (NNA) quoted Raad as saying.
“We have not sensed that the other party reviewed its positions to make us feel that their call for dialogue is serious.”
He added that “other parties” should review their positions, adding that “if they do not get themselves out of a hypocritical axis,” they will not be able to participate in building a stable country.”
Regarding the Syrian crisis and its development, MP Raad said that regional and international powers were “encouraging” violence against the Syrian regime and civilians.
Following his meeting with Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin, Raad defended Hizbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s call for resolving the Syrian crisis politically.
“Nasrallah has called for a political solution since the crisis began in Syria, and such a call does not deny there is a conspiracy against Syria.”
The Russian envoy also addressed the Syrian situation and said Russia has voiced the importance of implementing reform in Syria since the crisis began.
The Syrian regime has committed “exaggerated actions” in addressing the crisis, Zasypkin said, adding that Russia also “recognises the presence of armed gangs.”
“We call on the UN Security Council to make a balanced decision regarding both parties, and we call on both the Syrian regime and the armed gangs to stop violence.”
Syria has witnessed anti-regime protests since mid-March 2011. The United Nations estimated that more than 8,000 people have been killed in the regime’s crackdown on dissent.
The Syrian regime, along with its allies, has blamed “armed groups” for the unrest.