The continuation of impunity means the continuation of the killing machine, and what is required is to uproot this militia from its roots and dry up its resources.
The Cabinet's decision to ban the activities of these elements must be translated into actual prosecutions and arrests targeting the perpetrator, the inciter, the planner and the financier without exception or leniency.
The assassination of an Iraqi citizen on Lebanese territory is not a passing incident but a crime that requires striking the armed structure behind it.
We adjure you by God Almighty: O government, either bear your responsibilities, impose the state's authority, and protect the Lebanese, or leave. There is no more time for watching, nor are the Lebanese ready to pay once again the price of the government's inaction.
Dealing with a foreign state, establishing an armed militia, transporting explosives, and controlling monitoring groups with security objectives, from Dahr al-Baidar to the North, while the state watches as if we are in a play, 'The Witness Saw Nothing.' This is not how things should be. Today's laxity reminds us of the authorities' laxity at the beginning of the Palestinian fedayeen activity that preceded the great war and brought Lebanon to where it has reached.
Negotiations, restricting weapons, the return of residents to their villages, monetary stability and the restoration of security are all files that will not find their way to implementation unless the government decides to adopt decisiveness and firmness. If it is incapable of that, then a mini government must be formed whose mission is emancipation and liberation, made up of ministers who excel at the honor of confrontation and the art of governance, where there is no fear, hesitation or yawning. Either a state decides and implements, or we remain stalled in place, and that in itself is the killing of the republic.
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Mahfoud considered that Hezbollah's intransigence is draining Lebanon, stressing that the government will not remain a captive of waiting in its handling of the crisis.