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Interview English LB 2025-10-08 Samir Geagea (Lebanese Forces) to AFP: Hezbollah must disarm and hand its weapons to the Lebanese state (8 October 2025)
In an interview with Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said that the Iran-backed Hezbollah […] must learn from Hamas's experience in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Lebanese state as soon as possible. Geagea stated that Hezbollah has run out of options, noting that the party…
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Speech Arabic LB 2025-08-31 Nabih Berri — speech on the anniversary of Imam Musa al-Sadr's disappearance: the resistance's weapons "under the roof of the constitution", 31 August 2025 (English translation of Arabic)
We are open to discuss the fate of the weapons of the resistance, which is our pride and honour, under the roof of the constitution. [...] We reiterate that we are open to discussing the fate of those weapons … in a calm and consensual dialogue. [...] What is proposed in the American paper goes beyond the principle…
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Speech Arabic LB 2025-04-18 Naim Qassem — address on Lebanon's defense strategy and the Resistance's weapons, 18 April 2025 (Hezbollah-official English translation)
Yes, the constitution says arms should be exclusively in the hands of the state—and we agree. But which arms are we talking about? The weapons that maintain public order, the arms of internal security forces. As for the Resistance's weapons, they are exclusively for confronting the "Israeli" enemy. They are not—and…
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Interview English LB 2025-04-03 Walid Jumblatt — interview with The National, 3 April 2025 (with a Middle East Eye supplement, 20 May 2025)
(On Hezbollah's weapons and armed resistance, Jumblatt told The National:) "Hezbollah should understand that now, going back to the old methods … armed resistance – it won't work." (Yet he insisted the party cannot be excluded from Lebanon's confessional order:) "Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese society. They are…
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Speech English LB 2025-03-31 Gebran Bassil — lecture in Hungary, “Which Role for the Christians in shaping the Future of the Middle East?”, 31 March 2025 (FPM-official English text)
We, the Free Patriotic Movement, have tried to reflect the concerns of our community, whilst working on the consolidation of the Lebanese institutions. We have always believed that our political efficiency hinges on our independence and autonomy, in contrast with other Lebanese political parties beholden to foreign…
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Article English LB 2025-01-13 Nawaf Salam named Prime Minister-designate of Lebanon (13 Jan 2025)
On 13 January 2025, Nawaf Salam was nominated by 84 of Lebanon's 128 members of parliament, making him prime minister-designate days after Joseph Aoun's election as president. Salam was at the time president of the International Court of Justice, a post he resigned on 14 January 2025 to take up the role. He went on to…
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Article English LB 2025-01-09 Joseph Aoun elected President of Lebanon, ending a two-year vacancy (9 Jan 2025)
On 9 January 2025 Lebanon's parliament elected army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending a roughly two-year vacancy in the post. He secured 99 of 128 votes as a consensus candidate backed by US, French, and Saudi diplomacy. In his inaugural address he pledged to assert the state's monopoly on arms and to pursue…
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Article English LB 2024-11-27 Israel–Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect, ending the 2024 war (27 Nov 2024)
A US-brokered cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah took effect at 04:00 local time on 27 November 2024, ending more than a year of cross-border fighting that had escalated into open war. The agreement set a 60-day initial period during which Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon and…
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Article English LB 2024-09-27 Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs (27 Sep 2024)
Hassan Nasrallah, who had led Hezbollah since 1992, was killed on 27 September 2024 in an Israeli airstrike on the group's headquarters in the Dahiyeh area south of Beirut while leadership were meeting there. Hezbollah confirmed his death on 28 September 2024, saying he had 'joined his fellow martyrs.' A senior…
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Speech Arabic LB 2022-09-21 Mikati — UN GA 77 (Sep 2022): Lebanon's economic collapse, IMF deal, Israel maritime border, NPwA, refugees
كلمة دولة رئيس الحكومة اللبنانية الأستاذ نجيب ميقاتي أمام الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة للدورة السابعة والسبعين — نيويورك في 21 أيلول 2022. […] أخص بالشكر قوات الطوارئ الدولية (اليونيفيل) لما تبذله من تضحيات وجهود من أجل الحفاظ على الاستقرار في جنوب لبنان، بالتنسيق الوثيق مع الجيش اللبناني الذي نتطلع معكم وعبركم إلى…
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Party platform English LB 2022-04-28 Tier 1 Kataeb Party — 'A Lebanese Vision: 178 Steps Towards a Better Lebanon' (2022 program, English edition)
Sovereignty is a constituent principle of the State. The institutions of the Lebanese state fell under the grip of Hezbollah, which controls the sovereignty aspects, launches drones independently from the legitimate Lebanese armed forces, and has been engaged in regional cross-border conflicts at the service of the…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 2022-01-01 المبادئ العامة — النظام العام لحزب الكتائب اللبنانية (Kataeb Party general principles, Articles 1–10)
المادة ١: يؤلف اللبنانيون واللبنانيات والمتحدرون والمتحدرات من اصل لبناني وكل من يلتزم مبادئ وأهداف الحزب والنظام العام، حزباً سياسياً إسمه "حزب الكتائب اللبنانية - الحزب الديمقراطي الاجتماعي اللبناني". المادة ٢: يؤمن الكتائبيون والكتائبيات بأن لبنان هو وطن نهائي يستمد وجوده السياسي من تاريخه ودوره، ومن مدى إرادة…
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Speech Arabic LB 2021-09-24 Michel Aoun — UN GA 76 (Sep 2021): last Aoun-presidency UN, Beirut port truth-quest, Akkar Academy, Israel maritime border
كلمة فخامة رئيس الجمهورية اللبنانية العماد ميشال عون أمام الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة الدورة العادية السادسة والسبعين — نيويورك في 24ं / 09 / 2021. […] والشكر أيضاً لكل السادة رؤساء الدول الذين شاركوا بتلك المؤتمرات وللمنظمات الحكومية وغير الحكومية ولكل من ساهم في هذا الدعم، وأخص بالشكر فرنسا التي سارع رئيسها الى…
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Speech English LB 2018-12-13 Saad Hariri — “Lebanon: A Vision for the Future” (Chatham House, on-the-record address & Q&A), 13 December 2018
[…] I always say to people, you know, this is a regional issue, this is not a Lebanese issue. This is an Iranian issue and if we want to deal with the issue, let's sit down on a table and let's stop these wars and let's talk about how we resolve these issues in the region. If we want to make peace with Israel, we have…
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Speech Arabic LB 2018-09-26 Michel Aoun — UN General Assembly address, 73rd session (2018)
Security-Council Resolution 425 of 1978, which called Israel to withdraw its forces from all the Lebanese territories immediately, was only implemented 22 years later, under the pressure of the resistance of the Lebanese people. In contrast, we see that the General Assembly's Resolution 181 of 1947, stipulating the…
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Speech Arabic LB 2018-09-26 Tier 2 Michel Aoun address to the UN General Assembly (73rd session), 26 Sep 2018 (English translation of Arabic original)
In Lebanon, we are groping our way to rise from the consecutive crises that struck us at various levels. In security, Lebanon managed to consolidate its security and stability after having abolished the agglomerations of terrorists from its Eastern and Northern barrens, and after having dismantled their sleeper…
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Speech Arabic LB 2017-11-04 Tier 2 Saad Hariri — March-14 Sunni leader on Saudi-detention silence + Assad-as-monster (2012-2019)
From Saad Hariri (b. 1970, son of assassinated Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri; leader of the Future Movement, the dominant Sunni Muslim political party in Lebanon; Prime Minister 2009-2011 and 2016-2020, presiding over the October-2019 mass protests that toppled his second premiership): **December 2012** (after Syria…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 2012-02-17 الرؤية وقضية الحزب — حزب القوات اللبنانية (Lebanese Forces — Vision & Cause)
حزب القوات اللبنانية نشأت القّوات اللبنانيّة من عزم شابات و شبان تختزن ذواتهم قرونا" من التراث النضاليّ، صنعه آباؤهم وأجدادهم في الذود عن الأرض والكرامة والحرية والسيادة والإستقلال. حملوا السلاح مرغمين، بعد أن سقطت الدولة في فخ الانقسام على ذاتها، وأضحت عاجزة عن القيام بأبسط واجباتها في الدفاع عن الارض، في وجه…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 2009-11-30 Tier 2 Hezbollah 2009 Political Manifesto (English translation of Arabic original)
The Resistance role is a national necessity as long as the "Israeli" threats and aspirations persist. The "Israeli" threat urges Lebanon to approve a defensive strategy that depends on a popular resistance participating in defending the country and an army that maintains the security of the country. The adoption of…
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Manifesto English LB 2009-11-30 Hezbollah — 2009 Manifesto + Nasrallah supplementary (Zionism-as-occupiers-not-Jews-as-religion, Israel-as-cancer-to-be-eradicated)
From Hezbollah's 2009 Political Manifesto (released 30 November 2009 by then-Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut as a doctrinal update from Hezbollah's 1985 Open Letter — the 2009 Manifesto is the foundational document of Hezbollah's post-Cedar-Revolution political positioning): 2009 Political Manifesto…
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English LB 2007-09-03 Tier 1 Charter of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM official English charter, 2007)
THE PRINCIPLES The Free Patriotic Movement declares its belief that the individual is a value in himself, that people are born and die equal and that they live with rights, freedom and dignity, and they have the right to have different opinions, orientations and beliefs. Its commitment to the World Declaration of…
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Speech Arabic LB 2006-09-22 Hassan Nasrallah — 2006 "Divine Victory" rally speech, Beirut (post-July War) (English translation of Arabic)
This is not a Shi'i weapon [...] and the Christians. This weapon is for the Sunni, Druze, and Shi'i. This weapon is for all the Lebanese. It seeks to protect Lebanon, its sovereignty and independence. The army and the Resistance are two dear, loving brothers that no one can separate. Building a strong, just, and…
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Press release Arabic LB 2006-02-06 FPM–Hezbollah Memorandum of Understanding (the Mar Mikhael Church document), 6 February 2006 (English translation of Arabic original)
Introduction: […] a joint memorandum of understanding between the FPM and Hezbollah was made public and read by Abu-Zeinab and Bassil. The following is the text of the memorandum dated February 6, 2006. 2 – Consensual Democracy: Consensual democracy remains the fundamental basis for governance in Lebanon, because it…
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Party platform Arabic LB 2005-09-08 Tier 1 Charter of the Progressive Socialist Party (ميثاق الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي) — creed and internal/foreign policy
من أجـل ذلـــك: · يتبنى الحزب الاختبار الإنساني التقدمي الكامل في حقول العلم والاجتماع والاقتصاد والسياسة، ومن ضمنها مبادىء الإشتراكية العالمية وبعض مستلزماتها العملية، في توزيع وسائل الملكية والإنتاج وفي إستثمارها بما يتفق مع مقتضيات الزمن وتطور الجماعة وحاجات كل البلد. […] إن قيام مثل هذا الاتحاد الديمقراطي الفدرالي…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 2004-05-01 Tier 1 ماهية الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي (The Nature of the PSP) — Kamal Joumblatt's foundational doctrine
بماذا يوحي إلينا الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي؟ بأن الاشتراكية اللبنانية، على مستوى اقتصاد أمة ودون التمييز بين الطبقات، هي وحدها القادرة على حل مشكلة النزاعات بين الجماعات والطبقات. أهم مبادئ الحزب: تحقيق العدالة الإنسانية الفعلية؛ التعاون الوثيق مع الدول العربية التي تحترم مبادئه؛ علمنة الدولة واحترام حرية المعتقد في كافة…
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Interview Arabic LB 2001-01-01 Tier 2 Rafik Hariri — Lebanese Sunni PM doctrinal mosaic (Hezbollah-as-resistance defense, Syria-protector framing, BBC 2001)
From Rafik Hariri (1944-2005, Lebanese Sunni politician and business magnate; founder of the Future Movement; Prime Minister 1992-1998 and 2000-2004; architect of post-civil-war Beirut reconstruction through Solidere; assassinated by a truck bomb on Beirut's waterfront on 14 February 2005, triggering the Cedar…
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Manifesto Arabic LB 1985-02-16 Hezbollah — 'An Open Letter: The Hizballah Program' (16 February 1985; English translation of Arabic original)
OUR IDENTITY We are often asked: Who are we, the Hizballah, and what is our identity? We are the sons of the umma (Muslim community) - the party of God (Hizb Allah) the vanguard of which was made victorious by God in Iran. There the vanguard succeeded to lay down the bases of a Muslim state which plays a central role…
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Arabic LB 1976-01-01 Tier 1 ميثاق حركة المحرومين (Charter of the Movement of the Deprived) — founding charter of the Amal Movement
البعد الأول – الإيمان بالله: إن حركة المحرومين تنطلق من الإيمان بالله، كما تعتمد على أساس الإيمان بالإنسان بوجوده وحريته وكرامته. البعد الثالث – الحرية ومحاربة الظلم: تؤمن بالحرية الكاملة للمواطن، وتحارب كافة أنواع الظلم من استبداد وإقطاع وتسلط، وتعتبر أن نظام الطائفية السياسية في لبنان لم يعط ثماره، وهو الآن يمنع…
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Speech Arabic LB 1974-03-17 Imam Musa al-Sadr — Baalbek address founding Harakat al-Mahrumin (the parent movement of Amal), 17 March 1974 (Arabic original)
ننتقل الى الرمل العالي وبرج البراجنة، الى ضواحي بيروت، ألا تستحي أيها المسؤول أن يكون على بُعد كيلومترات منك مثل هذه البيوت التي لا تُسكن؟ ويسألون لماذا ننفجر ولماذا نغضب؟ في شوارع بيروت 1200 طفل متشرد: 1100 منهم من الشيعة، هل يقبل الحسين؟ هل يقبل علي أن يكون أبناؤه مشردين؟.. إنّ الظلم تجاوز كل حد، وحادثة كربلاء ليست…