Lebanon's Geagea speaks out against Nasrallah

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea spoke out on Friday against Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. "Nasrallah has a special standard according to which he categorises people,” he said during the launching of the Lebanese Forces political charter. Geagea said: “Are all Arab peoples unaware of their own interests? Could Palestine be liberated without the freedom of Arab peoples?" "You [Nasrallah] should respect all the people if you want them to respect you in return," Geagea said, adding that "fabricated accusations are unacceptable." “If the accusations addressed to us, especially during wartime, were proven true they could not be equated to a drop of water in the ocean of Hezbollah’s acts [felonies] during peaceful days,” Geagea elaborated.    Responding to Nasrallah's declarations that the political March 14 alliance were in no position to set conditions, Geagea said: "We do not impose conditions on anyone and we do not accept that conditions be imposed on us." Geagea added that Hezbollah “has never been serious during [a] national dialogue [session].” “Following our agreement on the issue of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, we saw how [Hezbollah] behaved afterwards,” Geagea said. “How [can we believe] that [Hezbollah] wants [to join a national] dialogue?” Geagea said that the Western-backed March 14 alliance does not have any prior conditions for holding a national dialogue “but we are not ready to [accept] conditions to be imposed on us.” Geagea added, while addressing Nasrallah: “Are we the ones who want to plunge Lebanon [into a war]? The group who wants to do so is the one that possess strategic power.” Nasrallah on Thursday threw his support behind the Syrian regime while slamming the March 14 alliance for “plunging Lebanon into war.”