Syria”s Allies Escalate Attacks on Patriarch Sfeir

Syrian-backed political parties and personalities on Thursday accused Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir of deepening the political and factional split in Lebanon.

 

The attack targeting the Maronite Church was made in a statement issued after a meeting by the pro-Syrian Hizbullah-led opposition factions at the offices of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Lebanon”s chapter of Syria”s ruling organization.

 

The parties said Sfeir”s rejection of the 1960 election law aims at “deepening the factional split in the country and serves the majority.”

 

It said the majority is in a “critical condition, which led the United States to dispatch its destroyer Cole to boost their collapsing morale and protect them against the mounting influence of the opposition.”

 

The statement also congratulated Syrian President Bashar Assad “on the anniversary of the March 8 revolution in Syria.”

 

It also “valued the stands of the Syrian Command … its persisting support for the resistance and rejection of the American-Zionist agenda in the Middle East.”