Lebanese journalist Tony Abi Najem, who publishes the "IMLebanon" website, said in a show on MTV (Lebanon) that he is not celebrating Liberation Day, a Lebanese national holiday marking the May 25, 2000 withdrawal of Israeli forces from Southern Lebanon.
He explained that if it were truly a Lebanese holiday, then April 26 would also be celebrated as the day that Syrian forces withdrew from Lebanon in 2005. He elaborated that the Syrian military presence in Lebanon was worse than Israel's, that the Syrians murdered and bombed the Lebanese people, and that hundreds of millions of dollars were and continue to flow out of Lebanon into Syria.
In contrast, he said that Lebanese civilians were permitted to work in Israel during its occupation of Southern Lebanon.
Source: MTV (Lebanon)