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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.

How many countries aspired to become like Beirut, to the point that some of them created a Ministry of Happiness, while Lebanon has turned into a homeland whose people think of leaving it more than they think of building their future in it. Just remember: the shrine of Anza in Mount Lebanon and the Lebanese pound, which was among the currencies used by money changers in Paris. What have they done to this homeland? What have those who mortgaged it to abroad done to it, bringing in occupations from the Ottoman era, through everyone who sought strength from abroad and relied on it, up to this day? From a homeland by which ambition was measured, to a country whose people emigrate in search of a future. That is not a coincidence of history but the result of decades of mortgaging, dependency, and undermining the foundations of the state.

Disagreement over policies is a right, but disagreement over the existence of the state and its authority is not a point of view.. it is a stab at the core of the Lebanese entity.

Lebanon is not an arena for two camps nor spoils for two axes. Lebanon is one republic.. one state.. and one decision.

War or no war? The Lebanese must not remain hostages of two camps while their homeland can bear only one authority: the Republic and the Constitution.

Whoever possesses explosives outside legitimacy and wants to subject the judiciary to his will is not practicing resistance but disputing the Lebanese over their state.

We do not want a state that begs the militia to respect its judiciary, but a state that imposes on it submission to its law.

When Hezbollah transforms from a party that is supposed to be subject to the law into a party that dictates to the judiciary what is permissible and what is not, we are facing an occupation authority over the state's decision from within.

Pay attention to healing your country's wounds and repairing what you destroyed instead of continuing the policy of score-settling and settling accounts, which is the only policy you seem to master.

They do not see events from the angle of Lebanon's interest, but from the angle of who prevails among the Lebanese. They live on the sidelines of events as if the function of politics for them is not to save their country but to score points against one another, even if the price is Lebanon's loss.

It is the height of absurdity that every external event turns into an occasion for Lebanese one-upmanship, and that some are preoccupied with interpreting the results of the US elections and distributing victories and defeats to their domestic opponents.

Lebanon cannot be saved while Hezbollah continues to tamper with its security and stability, confiscate its national decision, and impose its will on its institutions and destiny.

I fear that the deadline may have passed and that we are today on the verge of a highly dangerous phase whose price Lebanon and the Lebanese may pay with a comprehensive collapse and a disaster that cannot be contained.

Lebanon had a real opportunity to exit the grip of the militia and restore its state and sovereignty, and the international signals were clear and the door was open to a settlement that saves the country from collapse.. But Hezbollah again chose to manipulate security, bet on the time factor and maneuver, thinking it could waste the rescue opportunity and impose new facts, unaware that international opportunities do not remain open indefinitely.

Prepare for the most dangerous and the worst... and the last remedy is cauterization... and bear witness that we have conveyed it to you.

Do not believe Hezbollah if it promises you that it will not return to war.

In light of the dangerous information about the militia's security and military activities, tolerating it is no longer acceptable and laxity is not justified.

An immediate ministerial reshuffle has become a necessity imposed by the nature of the phase. Lebanon faces major developments, and what the state needs today is not more hesitation but ministers capable of making, implementing and defending decisions.

We have an excellent president and a good prime minister, but unless decision-making ministers capable of translating decisions into actions gather around them, matters will remain stagnant.

The defect today must be examined within the government structure, as the delay in implementing Cabinet decisions must not become a fait accompli.

The Taif Agreement has not been implemented, and the most appropriate option is for the state to extend its authority over its entire territory. I adhere to the Taif Agreement because it stopped a war and has not been tried in order to know its merits and whether it has flaws. The Lebanese state must implement the Taif Agreement in the full sense of the word and then search for amendments if necessary.

There must be people like Nawaf Salam and the removal of the paralyzing deep state in Lebanon. Bashar al-Assad fell in Syria but he did not fall in Lebanon, and he still rules through his apparatuses that were raised in Lebanon within the deep state. Before the problem of weapons and the state's exclusive control over the decision of war and peace is resolved, anything is in vain.

The President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam are trying to implement Taif, but they cannot implement it amid a deep state that has ruled Lebanon for 30 years. They could not change a university president or a financial public prosecutor because there is a mafia ruling Lebanon from among the sectarian leaders.

The Taif Agreement has not been implemented, and the most appropriate option is for the state to extend its authority over its entire territory. I adhere to the Taif Agreement because it stopped a war and has not been tried in order to know its merits and whether it has flaws. The Lebanese state must implement the Taif Agreement in the true sense of the word, then search for amendments if necessary.

Before you talk about patriotism, answer the Lebanese: To whom is your loyalty? To Lebanon or to those who pay you? And do not warn the Lebanese of an explosion while you are the one igniting its fuse