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Most people criticize politicians, and most politicians deserve criticism, but has anyone ever stopped to ask himself: Who brought these politicians? Have you seen a deputy who carried himself and entered parliament without being elected by the people?

Events are heading in the right direction, and it has never happened in history that history went backwards, and this time too it will not go backwards. We have covered three quarters of the road toward an effective state, and the last quarter remains. My greatest wish is that we complete this remaining quarter ourselves, because if we do not do so, someone will come and complete it for us.

I am not pessimistic, despite all the developments that are happening. We are today in a different situation from the one we were in two, three, four or five years ago. It is true that events are not moving at the speed we want, but that does not mean they are not moving in the right direction.

Our work is not a festival. Festivals are very important, and I am among those who encourage them, because they stabilize groups in their positions, but our work is not limited to them, because the fate of an entire people depends on this work.

For me, victory lies elsewhere: that generations complete generations. The primary goal is for the cause to continue, and how can it continue if there are no generations succeeding one another to carry it?

The responsibility placed on the Lebanese Forces is not limited to winning elections, bringing MPs to parliament and naming ministers, despite the importance of all that, but goes beyond it to a larger and deeper responsibility concerning the fate of an entire people.

The Lebanese Forces' positions are not populist, but I regret the statements issued by the Prime Minister, however they are "acceptable".

Hekmeh Club's victory in the Arab Clubs Basketball Championship is a victory for Lebanon and all Lebanese. This remarkable achievement not only revives Hekmeh's glorious history, but reminds of Lebanon's bright history in successes and championships, and that the Lebanese, with their strong will, are capable of returning to a leadership position, no matter how difficult the challenges.

May God give you a hundred thousand blessings, but you face very great obligations. The most important thing I want to tell you is that your mission did not end with the elections today; your mission began today.

As much as you are happy today, I want to place a very great responsibility on you. Frankly, society has opened its arms to us.

May God give you a hundred thousand blessings. I remember from our days as students how we were, weeks and months before elections, not sleeping, and I imagine, especially after the results that appeared today, that you too spent many nights without sleep preparing for these elections. So congratulations to you and congratulations to us.

What is required is not a direct military confrontation, but gradual steps to dismantle the party's military and security structure.

The government cannot take a decision considering Hezbollah an illegal organization and then keep in the security agencies, the army, the judiciary, especially the military court, or in public administrations, people close to Hezbollah.

Abandoning diplomatic niceties and adopting a firmer language with the Lebanese state.

The military institution announced about two weeks ago the seizure of 250 kilograms of explosives. Therefore, if the Dahr al-Baydar file is closed with the arrest of only two people, it will be a real scandal.

There is another indicator that must be taken into account: the shipment was headed from the Beqaa to Beirut. If the goal was really to use these weapons against Israel, the car could have taken another road to reach southern Lebanon.

It is not just a dangerous incident, but the most dangerous incident in years, especially since among the seized explosives is C4 material usually used in assassination operations.

The Dahr el-Baidar checkpoint incident is "the most dangerous in years" and the state must take a firm stance

If evil has a round, then right and truth have a thousand rounds

The basic problem is known: Lebanon does not have sufficient production capacity, and existing plants currently provide only about a third of the country's energy needs. This reality is not the result of recent months, but the result of long years of accumulated failure to carry out required investments in production, while billions of dollars were spent on purchasing fuel oil instead of building a sector capable of providing electricity sustainably.

The electricity crisis can no longer tolerate the philosophy of time management, because every day the required decisions are delayed means fewer hours of state electricity, and thus an additional step toward total darkness, a larger bill for generators, and an additional cost on families, institutions and the Lebanese economy.

The crisis in the electricity sector today cannot be reduced to a decrease in supply hours, and it must not be treated as a passing technical problem that can be postponed from one cabinet session to another.

And you are the only ones acting against the will of the people.

And what actually helps the Israeli project is your military and security presence outside the national consensus and the logic of the state, and outside the Arab and international will.

I had hoped, in this delicate circumstance that Lebanon is going through, not to engage in polemics with anyone, but what Sheikh Naim Qassem said yesterday cannot be let pass unnoticed.

Who can explain what kind of state of institutions this is, where the President or the Prime Minister does not take with them the Foreign Minister on their foreign visits, when he is the minister originally concerned with everything related to foreign relations?

We cannot imagine any decent life as long as Hezbollah's weapons remain