Bkirki’s Snub

Bkirki is once more giving March 14 the red eye. Here’s why.

this time, ignore me at your peril

Most people in the March 14 movement were surprised when the council of Maronite bishops announced on Tuesday that a Chapter 7 resolution to the Hariri tribunal would be damaging to Lebanon.

Hariri immediately rushed to Bkirki to find out why they said that. Naharnet totally ignored the part about chapter 7 in their story, March 14 bloggers fumed and Hariri-owned Almustaqbal media was defensive in tone and said that the Lebanese people have the right to a chapter 7 resolution if everything else fails.

The reason the Maronites are cautious is simple though. With all the talk about the Saudis mending the fence between the Sunnis and the Shias, the Patriarch was sensing another 7ilf ruba3i in the making(in reference to when Hariri, Jumblatt, Nassrallah and Berri had an electoral alliance that left the Christians behind).

Bkirki wanted to remind everyone that the Christians also have sacrosanct issues. Sfeir is now making it a point that the number one priority for the Christians is NOT the international tribunal but a fair electoral law. Which to this blogger, makes perfect sense.

However, the burden is on Aoun to persuade his allies to accept a new electoral law based on small districts. After all, it is Berri and Nassrallah that have always been the most resistant to such a law.