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« Hezbollah = Liban », selon le ministre israélien de l’Éducation
Par Le Figaro.fr avec Reuters Mis à jour le 07/05/2018
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« Hezbollah = Liban », écrit sur Twitter Naftali Bennett, qui est aussi ministre de l’Education et président du parti d’ultra-droite Le Foyer juif. « L’Etat d’Israël ne fera pas de différence entre l’Etat souverain du Liban et le Hezbollah et considérera le Liban comme responsable de toute action en provenance de son territoire », ajoute le ministre. Selon les résultats préliminaires, le Hezbollah (Parti de Dieu, chiite) devrait remporter plus de la moitié des sièges au Parlement libanais.

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Au Liban, le confessionnalisme accentue l’exclusion des femmes de la vie politique. (Très intéressant.)

Sectarian system, familial ties keep Lebanese women locked out of politics
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/sectarian-system-familial-ties-keep-lebanese-women-locked-out-pol

The parties that were chosen were: the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, the Phalange Party, the Progressive Socialist Party, Hezbollah, the Lebanese Communist Party and the Future Movement.

The study shows that one or two women are represented in each party’s leadership body. None of the parties that were studied adopted a quota for women in their internal organization, 33 percent absolutely rejected a women’s quota, 50 percent appointed women in some leadership positions and 16.6 percent nominated women for parliamentary elections.

The study concluded that the sectarian political system affects women’s overall political participation and that the familial, partisan and sectarian system that governs municipal, mayoral and parliamentary elections is not friendly to women, but rather discriminates against them. Political parties take into account the families and the system that govern representation in the municipal elections and sects in the parliamentary elections at the expense of women.

The study recommended that political parties support the presence of women; empower their female members; advance their capabilities; raise awareness among party members about the importance of the role of women and their active participation; encourage women; allow them to reach decision-making positions; adopt a quota for women in party elections; adopt women’s issues and not confine them to female party members only nor to women’s committees; nominate women in municipal and parliamentary elections and finally, female party members should seek to impose women’s issues on their political parties’ agendas.

L’effet Clooney-Alamuddin commence déjà à se faire sentir dans le Chouf : Suleiman, Al-Rahi, Jumblat Celebrate Christian-Druze Reconciliation in Brih
▻http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/130966-suleiman-al-rahi-jumblat-celebrate-christian-druze-reconciliation-i

A celebration was held on Saturday in the Shouf region to mark Christian-Druze reconciliation in the village of Brih following a break in ties between the two sides following the 1975-90 Civil War.

President Michel Suleiman, Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat attended the celebration along with a number of lawmakers from various parliamentary blocs.

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To the residents of Brih, Jumblat stated: “Today marks the beginning of the march towards reconciliation, coexistence, and harmony and the commitment towards the country.”

Cérémonie à Brih pour marquer la réconciliation et le retour des chrétiens
▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/867690/ceremonie-a-brih-pour-marquer-la-reconciliation-et-le-retour-des-chre

Une cérémonie pour marquer la réconciliation et le retour des chrétiens à Brih a lieu aujourd’hui samedi sous le patronage du chef de l’Etat Michel Sleiman.

Seront présents à la cérémonie le patriarche maronite Bechara Rai et le chef du Parti socialiste progressiste (PSP) Walid Joumblatt.

La ministre des Déplacés, Alice Chaptini, avait pris le 9 mai une décision visant à évacuer les maisons occupées dans le village de Brih, l’une des dernières localités de la Montagne à n’avoir pas encore été englobée dans le processus de retour des déplacés chrétiens du Chouf, à la suite de la « guerre de la Montagne » qui avait opposé les chrétiens aux druzes au début des années 1980.

La Caisse centrale pour les déplacés avait aussi été chargée de payer les indemnités qui reviennent aux occupants, afin que les biens-fonds soient restitués à leurs propriétaires chrétiens. Le village compte quelque 25 à 30 familles chrétiennes.

#Lebanon's #presidential_election expected to be postponed
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanons-presidential-election-postponed

Lebanon’s second round presidential vote is expected to be postponed after March 8-aligned legislatures vowed to boycott Wednesday’s Parliamentary session in which it was scheduled to elect a new head of state. #parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is currently meeting with Walid Jumblatt, leader of the so-called Progressive Socialist Party, which routinely switches loyalties between the March 8 and March 14 coalitions — Lebanon’s two main political factions. read more

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Lebanese MPs vote in presidential election
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-mps-set-vote-presidential-election

Updated at 12:23 pm: Lebanese parliamentarians gathered on Wednesday morning to vote in the highly anticipated #presidential_elections, which have heightened the rivalry between the March 8 and March 14 coalitions. Three people declared their candidacy: Samir Geagea of the Lebanese Forces, Henri Helou of the Progressive Socialist Party and independent candidate Nadine Moussa, who is the first woman to present herself in presidential elections in #Lebanon. Presidents in Lebanon are chosen through a parliamentary and cabinet vote as opposed to a general election. read more

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Former #PSP official found dead in car
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/former-psp-official-found-dead-car

Sami Marroush, a former member of #Lebanon's so-called Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), was found dead Thursday with gun shot wounds to his chest and neck, state news reported. Lebanon’s National News Agency said the wounds were caused by a hunting rifle fired at close range. His body was discovered inside his car in the Aley region of Mount Lebanon. A preliminary investigation suggested that Marroush was murdered, the NNA said. Youths briefly shut the Damascus road with burning tires to protest the apparent killing. read more

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#Lebanon: Jumblatt Shifts Syria Line
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-jumblatt-shifts-syria-line

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L’intégralité des mouvements politiques libanais ligués contre un mouvement de travailleurs : Spinneys : Rooted in Lebanese Corruption. Ce système apparaît de plus en plus au bout du rouleau confessionnel-néolibéral ; rien de fonctionne plus, sauf lorsqu’il s’agit de préserver la mafiocratie.
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/spinneys-rooted-lebanese-corruption

Unions belonging to Amal, Hezbollah, LF, Syrian National Social Party (SSNP), Baath, Future Movement, LCP, and the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), who dominate the labor movement, did not find it necessary to defend union freedoms, unionization rights, or collective bargaining. They all acted as if the Spinneys issue did not concern them.

Future Movement media organizations launched a campaign to defend the company’s management against the workers, even though some of them are party members.

Although it has always boasted about being a defender of freedoms and workers rights, al-Jadeed TV channel decided to avoid the whole issue.

The FPM’s outlet, OTV, did something far worse. It changed its programming to prevent a regular rerun of an interview with former labor minister Charbel Nahhas. The minister had earlier refused to abide by the station’s conditions not to mention the Spinneys workers struggle in a live interview.

Because of its coverage of the issue, Al-Akhbar is no longer sold in Spinneys branches countrywide.

Advertising companies exerted serious pressure on newspapers, magazines, and other media. They tried to stop them from carrying out their professional duty of investigating the truth about workers conditions in the company.

Some of this pressure took the form of threats to deny media outlets large advertising budgets, not limited to Spinneys ads.

Current labor minister Salim Jreissati was mobilized to protect the Spinneys from any legal action and to block inspection agencies in the ministry from investigating violations.