During his speech to the Lebanese parliament, which was meeting to discuss the new cabinet program and decide on granting it their confidence, Michel Aoun, a Hizbullah stooge and leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM)

In violation of this UN resolution, five Arab armies - including our own Lebanese army - attacked the Jewish state.

parliamentary block, declared that the Palestinian tragedy is the fault of the United Nations, among others. He stated: "It was a decision by the United Nations to create the state of Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people and as a consequence of this decision, the Palestinians were forced into exile." (An Arabic transcript of Aoun's speech can be read on the Lebanese Canadian Coordination Council website.)


Aoun's statement is a blatant lie, an enormous falsification of history. United Nations Resolution 181 created two states - an Arab state and a Jewish state. The resolution was actually named the "Partition Plan". Contrary to MP Aoun's claim, the UN did not "invent" Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people and did not cause their exodus; rather, the Palestinian Arabs were indeed granted their own state in the 1948 UN resolution.


In violation of this UN resolution, five Arab armies - including our own Lebanese army - attacked the Jewish state and were subsequently defeated. That defeat brought about the exodus of some of the Palestinians. Many remained in Israel proper, and Palestinian Israeli citizens today enjoy far greater human and civil rights than any of their fellow Palestinians living in any other Arab nation.


Between 1948 and 1967, Gaza and the West Bank were under Egyptian and Jordanian jurisdictions. Egypt and Jordan could have granted their Palestinian brothers their state in those territories, but no, no, no - they greedily kept the territories and only remembered Palestinian rights after they lost these lands to Israel in the 1967 war.


In the late 1990s the Palestinians (under Yasser Arafat) rejected 97% of these territories one more time. They opted instead for an intifada, a euphoric madness of blood and tears, in order to blow up innocent Israelis in buses, discotheques and pizza parlors.


Aoun's demagoguery and shameless lies show how low this opportunistic mercenary has stooped in serving Hizbullah's interests. For this "representative" of the Lebanese people to stand in public and utter sneaky lies to our face, whether on purpose or in ignorance, is an insult to history, to our intelligence and to general humanistic principles.


In his speech, Michel Aoun also expressed brazen ingratitude to numerous friendly

We Lebanese honor the noble and generous, and are grateful to our friends-in-need.

Arab nations, insulting their generosity and holding them responsible for Palestinian jobs and welfare, ignoring the fact that Saudi Arabia and all other Gulf nations have generously supported Lebanon with billions of dollars in aid and investments for decades now. Aoun acted like a beggar that bites the hand that feeds him. This is not a Lebanese trait, we Lebanese honor the noble and generous, and are grateful to our friends-in-need.


But destiny has dictated that Lebanon remains a dumping ground for all the trash of this tortured Middle East, including local opportunists such as Aoun. Yet, we promise our people that in the rendezvous of the Spring 2009 parliamentary elections, not one single member of Aoun's parliamentary block will be re-elected in Mount Lebanon. Aoun's only representation will be in the Hizbullah-dominated areas; and we congratulate him in advance for being the future MP of Baalbek-Hermel (a.k.a. Hizbullastan).