In an editorial in Saudi-owned al-Hayat entitled "The Lebanese Opposition Cloned," Daud al-Shiryan wrote that Hariri's camp "tried to impose a prime minister using the streets and burning tires, employing the same means used by their adversaries, the means they have always criticized," he noted. "Some deputies of Hariri's bloc have employed clearly sectarian language."
For Shiryan, Hariri's departure "is not the end of the world," and he must "accept the rules of democracy" and support the Prime Minister-Designate Najib Mikati.
Abdul Rahman al-Rashid writing in Asharq al-Awsat said Hariri "was unjustly dismissed from the post of prime minister, but the actions of his supporters were not civilized."
"The images of protesters who descended on the streets to block traffic and burn tires do not correspond to the image of March 14 (Hariri's camp), which had been a movement in the Arab world that respected the rules," wrote Rashid, a director general of the al-Arabiya satellite channel.
He said Hariri should reach out to Mikati, whom he described as a "respectable personality."
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