AMAL MP Slams Bassil over Israel Remarks
MP Hani Qobeissi of Speaker Nabih Berri’s AMAL Movement on Sunday lashed out at Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil over the latter’s latest controversial remarks on Israel.
“What one of the officials has said about the Palestinian cause requires a clarification, carries malicious intentions and is aimed at shifting the country to another course,” Qobeissi warned.
“Someone has voiced remarks that need to be clarified because he occupies a governmental and official Lebanese post. The martyrs in their tombs cannot condone the stances that were voiced during a TV interview and we will not remain silent,” the MP added.
Bassil has sparked controversy by saying that he does not reject Israel's existence and that Israel “has the right to live in security.”
“We do not have an ideological problem with Israel. We do not reject Israel's existence and its right to live in security. We are only saying that we want all peoples to lives in security and to acknowledge each other,” Bassil said in an interview with the Beirut-based, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen television.
A statement issued by Bassil's press office said a video circulated on social media was “taken out of context.”
“This curtailment is aimed at distorting Minister Bassil's stance,” the press office said, noting that Bassil considers Israel “an aggressor entity that practices state terrorism.”
“This campaign is aimed at undermining Minister Bassil's stance on Jerusalem at the Arab League,” the press office added.
01 January 2018, 03:25
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What planet does this idiot live on? He was also accusing Saudia new regime that they are partnering with Israel against Iran. Now he wants to ignore Israel nuclear arsenal that nasrallah threatened last month that he could reach with his 100 thousands rocks from Iran. He also forgets those f16s in 2006 that destroyed every Lebanese bridge because of nasrallah militia war, he also ignores that the Palestinian authority at one point signed a peace treaty along with Egypt and Jordan with Israel. Yet wants to sustain the Iranian money and mini state within state, does not want to build a peaceful state such as Egypt, Jordan and Palestinians themselves and prefer the outside money from Iran which creates Saudi reaction to his action.
