Aoun Exploits the Church to Reach His Goals
After meeting with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir on Monday in Bkirki, head of the National Bloc party Carlos Eddé said that he who described Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun as the “Patriarch of the East” after the latter’s visit to Syria understood nothing about Christian religion. Eddé said that there was a contradiction between Christianity and Aoun’s personality. “Jesus’ message is one of love and forgiveness, whereas we only see in Aoun’s speech animosity, violence and creating dispute among people,” he said.
Eddé said that in the Christian faith, Jesus teaches about honesty, while Aoun was “dishonest” with his supporters and with the Lebanese population. “Whatever [Aoun] says, he denies the next day,” Eddé said. He added that Aoun was a political figure who tried to “use” the Maronites and Christians to reach his goals.
Eddé added that it was easy for the Syrian regime to line up Christians in Syria to welcome Aoun, and it was not the first time this happened in Syria or Iran. He said that the values that Aoun represented were the important part, and until now, there had been no harmony between Aoun’s discourse and that of the Maronite Church.
Eddé said that he still considered himself aligned with the political line of the March 14 alliance, assuring he had never deviated from it. Eddé said he was thinking of running in the 2009 parliamentary elections to transmit his national message and to defend his political ideas. “There is a possibility that I will run in the 2009 parliamentary elections, independent or with the March 14 alliance. What is important is to run the battle against the [political] line that wants to take us three years backward, toward a future worse than now.”