Beirut MP Mohammad Qabbani said
Wednesday that “a collaborator is a collaborator regardless of his political
affiliation,” in reference to Karam’s role as an official in the FPM, which is
part of the Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition.
Another Future Movement MP, the Western Bekaa ’s Ziad Qaderi, issued a statement saying
the retired Lebanese Army Brig. Gen. “remains a collaborator no matter what he
does, and will remain guilty no matter how much he claims he was unjustly
convicted.”
Karam was arrested in 2010 on
suspicion of providing Israeli intelligence with information on Hezbollah and
the FPM. He was sentenced to two years in prison but according to his lawyer
was released early Tuesday – having served a year and eight months – because of
a new law that reduces the prison year to nine months.
Qaderi called the celebrations in
Karam’s hometown of Zghorta “shameful,” and said Hezbollah’s lack of comment on
the issue “shows flagrant double standards,” given that the party’s
Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has “called for erecting gallows for
collaborators.”
Western Bekaa MP Antoine Saad said he
feared that with Karam’s release, “the issue of collaboration with Israel
He also expressed “surprise at
Hezbollah’s silence on Karam.”
Another Western Bekaa MP, Amin
Wehbe, called Karam’s release “harmful to our values, and our nerves, and to
all those who sacrificed in the face of the Israeli enemy.”
“This is a sign of double standards and
insolence” on the part of Hezbollah, he added.http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Apr-05/169298-future-movement-mps-criticize-karam-release.ashx#axzz1r4JkVcPk
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