BEIRUT: Lebanese Forces MP Fadi Karam Saturday hit back at a Hezbollah official, saying Jounieh residents have always been able to fend off attacks.
"Just like all the previous invaders could not reach Jounieh, not ISIS nor anyone else could do so now. But the important thing is for Sheikh Naim Qassem's thinking not to infiltrate [Jounieh] through his Christian allies,” Karam said in a statement.
The LF lawmaker was responding to Qassem, Hezbollah’s deputy head, who said that ISIS would have erected checkpoints in Jounieh, Beirut and Sidon as well as every other region in Lebanon if the his group had not intervened in Syria.
“Thank God we went to fight in Syria at the right time, and we were in the place we should be to prevent this grave danger,” Qassem said Friday evening, noting that the threat would not have been restricting to the Bekaa Valley if the party had remained idle.
The March 14 coalition's secretary-general, Fares Soueid, also responded to Qassem, saying: "Hezbollah insists on insulting Christians in a very clear way when it pretends as if the party now has a new job."
"Hezbollah wants to pretend as if it is now transformed into a Christian army in Lebanon to protect [Christians] from ISIS threats," Soueid told Al-Joumhouria in remarks published Saturday.
"Protecting people is the reasonability of the Lebanese state and if the state is incapable, Christians never neglected [such a task] and do not need Hezbollah to protect them."
"Christians have always taught people about the resistance and will continue to do so.”
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