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Yes to Lebanon with its comprehensive unity, its internal harmony and comprehensive reform of its economic structure and fiscal policy.
What we need now is a national harmony table that reconnects what was severed, and this is what we expect from President Joseph Aoun.
No to the federalization of sects, no to side deals, no to paralysing institutions, no to Zionist-leaning voices, no to the absence of oversight, no to protecting the channels of corruption, no to aborting the forensic audit, no to a rentier economy and the squandering of deposits, and no to protecting the banks' tycoons.
What we need now is a table of national harmony that reconnects what has been severed, and this is what we expect from President Joseph Aoun. Islam and Christianity are twins of a heavenly message based on love, mercy, and eternal cooperation, because we do not want Lebanon to fall and disappear.
This imposes on the political authority to read Lebanon's interests outside dependency on Washington, indeed outside any security deal with Tel Aviv, especially since Lebanon's crisis is a complex crisis that cannot be overcome except through a comprehensive national partnership.
The world is changing, the current international order is eroding, and the Middle East is heading toward radical transformation, especially since the US midterm elections place Iran at the heart of the strongest international balances, while the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian missiles become the most important global player, and even reveal a new balance of power that severely chokes the terrorist Zionist entity.
Nothing is more dangerous to civil peace than involving security agencies in the game of executive power or re-employing political disagreement in the judiciary, especially the Judicial Council, particularly since internal red lines are inflamed national lines, more complex than the fires of the Middle East and the world, and a mistake in national security and the political charter puts us before an adventure from which no one survives.
Because Lebanon is a memory of crises liable to explode at any moment, and the fire that can burn Lebanon exists only in the hands of the executive authority that acts on behalf of the Washington-Tel Aviv security deal. It is a cheap, dangerous and highly sectarian game, so beware of it lest we lose Lebanon.
What the executive authority is doing is extremely dangerous; it is a war fuse directed at an entire sect, without distinction among its members. This requires us to be at the heart of defending our existence, our rights and our national partnership.
To whom it may concern, I say: the existence of an effective state is an urgent necessity, but this necessary existence is on the borders, the war fronts, and national, social and economic relief. A state that practices a policy of starvation, impoverishment, abandonment and strangulation against its own people is the last to have the right to speak of national justice, security presence and striking with an iron fist.
Otherwise, what is happening amounts to a deliberate massacre aimed at undermining the very existence of the Shiite community
We are still patient with the authority that we unfortunately see complicit against our blood, our limbs and the destruction of our villages
Lebanon and the region are on a barrel of gunpowder
There has never been in the history of the Arabs and Islamic states in this era a youthful, active and exceptional force with conventional capabilities like the force formed by Lebanese popular capabilities against the American-Zionist project.
The moment now is highly opportune, especially as America, after the war on Iran, is suffering its worst historical weakness, in addition to an unprecedented structural paralysis in its strategic capacity.
Washington is confiscating the Middle East and turning it into a network of military bases and structural capabilities for energy, economic and financial plunder that prevents Arab and Islamic states from the ability to unite and play a leading role.
The south is the cause of all Lebanon; a deprived south means a deprived Lebanon, a threatened south means all of Lebanon is threatened, and a weak south means the entire Lebanese state is weak.
Preventing the transformation of external and internal crises into a mechanism for self-destruction
Do not let Lebanon eat itself