Jouzou: Nasrallah Staging Open War on Beirut

Mount Lebanon Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Ali Jouzou on Sunday accused Hizbullah of launching war “against Beirut.”

 

Jouzou, in a statement distributed by the state-run National news Agency, said: “It seems that the open war declared by sayed Hassan Nasrallah is not against Israel, but against the citizens of Beirut, streets of Beirut and

the youth of Beirut.”

 

“Is it a coincidence that the streets of Beirut were set ablaze” after Nasrallah”s open war declaration? Jouzou asked.

 

“Was the agenda for liberating Jerusalem replaced by an agenda for liberating Beirut?” he added.

He also accused Hizbullah of trying to “plunge Lebanon into civil war under the resistance banner.”

 

Outspoken Jouzou urged the March 14 majority to sponsor multi-sect “national resistance controlled by the Lebanese Army.”

 

Such a national resistance, according to Jouzou, should be entrusted with the task “of confronting, with the army, any aggression by the Israeli enemy or by any side that wants to bring back the era of (Syrian) hegemony.”

 

He added that whoever wants Syrian hegemony back is “the enemy of Lebanon, Lebanon”s independence and freedom.”

 

Jouzou termed rioting in Beirut “acts of treason.”