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The battle today is the battle to consolidate the state's authority, and there will be no retreat from the judicial path until its end. What is required is not only the seizure of an explosives shipment, but ending a system accustomed to operating outside the state's authority and imposing its will on the Lebanese. This time, accountability must reach the decision-making level and not stop at the executors, and the final say must belong to the Lebanese judiciary, not to those who believe their weapons give them the right to challenge the state.
What began with the seizure of shipments and the arrest of suspects must be completed with judicial prosecutions that reveal the entire network and reach everyone whose responsibility is proven, without exception or immunity. The remaining members of this organization must realize that the era of impunity must end, and that the only way to avoid further consequences is to surrender themselves and their weapons to the Lebanese state and submit to the law.
From the Kahale truck (9 August 2023), which ended with the killing of a young man from the town... to the confrontation of the residents of the town of Chouya in the Hasbaya area (6 August 2021) to prevent the launching of rockets, up to the seizure of hundreds of kilograms of explosives at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint hours ago and the arrest of suspects. A new scene is being formed: militia members no longer move and transport weapons and explosives as if the state does not exist... and they are no longer allowed to do as they please and impose a fait accompli on the Lebanese.
Three years of war and Hezbollah is still stubborn, as if the destruction of Lebanon, the displacement of the people of the south, and the demolition of their villages and homes do not concern it.. What victory is there in displacing people and destroying their homes while the party continues its absurd choices in service of Iran? This stubbornness will not exempt it from responsibility.. And the government will not remain a prisoner of waiting.. There is a moment of decision approaching. And a major historic decision must be taken.. Because the continuation of this approach is no longer just a political mistake but a continuous draining of Lebanon and the Lebanese.
This stubbornness will not exempt it from responsibility.. The government will not remain captive to waiting.. A moment of decision is approaching. A major historic decision must be taken.. Because continuing this approach is no longer just a political mistake but a continuous draining of Lebanon and the Lebanese
Three years of war and Hezbollah is still stubborn, as if the destruction of Lebanon, the displacement of the people of the south, and the devastation of their villages and homes do not concern it.. What victory is there in people being displaced and their homes destroyed while the party continues its absurd choices in service of Iran?
Your game is over.. and your slogans have fallen.. and Lebanon will not remain hostage to your adventures
What you are doing is not resistance and has never been resistance, but a contract at the expense of Lebanon
You do not want Lebanon's neutrality.. and you fight peace.. and you cling to your loyalty to Iran.. and you carry arms against the Lebanese.. then you try to cover all that with a deceptive slogan called 'resistance'
What is happening is not a detail or a passing incident: it is an integrated path that cannot be stopped except by striking the sources of power that kept this system standing: disarmament... drying up funding... and opening the assassination files: from here begins the recovery of the republic.
It is no longer acceptable for weapons to remain outside the state, their funding outside oversight, and the assassination files outside accountability.
Every additional day of occupation in the south, the Iranian-operated armed organization bears the consequences of this occupation.