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Social post Arabic LB 2026-06-21 Tier 1 al-Manar [Hezbollah media organ] — "the enemy entity"/south Lebanon framing, Telegram, 2026-06-21
🔵 كيان العدو | حيرة داخل المؤسسة العسكرية الإسرائيلية بشأن جدوى الحزام الأمني في جنوب لبنان وسط قيود متزايدة https://almanar.com.lb/article/967927/?s=tg
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Social post Arabic LB 2026-06-21 Tier 1 al-Manar [Hezbollah media organ] — Gaza "martyrs/occupation" framing, Telegram, 2026-06-21
🔵 3 شهداء بينهم طفلة وإصابات بتجدد خروقات الاحتلال في قطاع غزة https://almanar.com.lb/article/967682/?s=tg
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Interview Arabic LB 2026-05-31 Tier 2 Nabih Berri (Speaker of Parliament; leader of the Amal Movement) — statement to NBN guaranteeing "the resistance's" full, comprehensive and immediate commitment to a ceasefire if a clear formula is reached, while asking who will compel Israel to halt its aggression (reported by Lebanon Debate, 31 May 2026).
أكد رئيس مجلس النواب نبيه بري أنه يضمن "التزاماً كاملاً وشاملاً وفورياً" بوقف إطلاق النار من قبل المقاومة، في حال التوصل إلى صيغة واضحة لوقف العمليات. وقال بري، في حديث للـ"NBN": "أضمن التزاماً كاملاً وشاملاً وفورياً لوقف إطلاق النار من قبل المقاومة، لكن السؤال: من يُلزم إسرائيل بوقف عدوانها براً وبحراً وجواً وهدمها…
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Speech Arabic LB 2026-05-22 Tier 1 Mohammed Raad (head of Hezbollah's "Loyalty to the Resistance" parliamentary bloc) — appeal to "the people of the Resistance" (Al-Manar, post-2024 ceasefire): the resistance's weapon is "the real barrier preventing the entrenchment and hegemony of the occupation"; the fight is a "defensive" national duty; and neither an alliance with America nor normalization with Israel will protect the region's peoples and sovereignty.
— سلاح المقاومة الذي تحرّكه هذه الإرادة، يشكّل المانع الحقيقي لتثبيت الاحتلال واستقراره وهيمنته — نحن وإياكم يا أهلنا نقوم بواجبنا الدفاعي الوطني والإنساني والأخلاقي، ضد العدو الصهيوني حفظًا وحمايةً لوجودنا وأرضنا ووطننا وشعبنا — لن يحمي شعوبها وسيادة دولها من الأطماع الصهيونية لا تحالفٌ مع أمريكا راعية الإرهاب…
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Interview English LB 2026-02-04 Tier 2 Nawaf Salam (Prime Minister of Lebanon from Feb 2025; former ICJ president) — Euronews interview, 4 Feb 2026: the state's monopoly on arms and restoring state authority — "the army is our main tool to enforce our goal to have the monopoly over arms and to restore state authority over all the Lebanese territory" — plus condemning Israel's occupation of the south. The reformist / state-sovereignty pole.
We will need their help, because the army is our main tool to enforce our goal to have the monopoly over arms and to restore state authority over all the Lebanese territory. Unfortunately, we must address the issue of Israel's occupation of parts of the south, the daily violations of its sovereignty, and the…
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Interview English LB 2026-02-02 Tier 2 Samir Geagea (leader, Lebanese Forces) — declared positions on decentralization and democracy, from a 2026 "Pen Cast" podcast interview (reported by SyriacPress): Lebanon's core problem is a plural society governed by an overly centralized state, so he advocates "decentralization in its broadest sense"; he defines democracy as "the right of every group to choose its own representatives."
Geagea argued that the root of the problem lies in the structure of a pluralistic society governed by an excessively centralized state. The solution, he said, is decentralization in its broadest sense, not merely administrative decentralization. Geagea maintained that such an approach would provide “breathing space”…
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Speech Arabic LB 2025-11-11 Tier 1 Naim Qassem (Secretary-General, Hezbollah) — "Day of the Martyr" address, 11 Nov 2025 (full text on Hezbollah's Al-Manar): frames demands to disarm Hezbollah as escalating "pretexts" ultimately aimed at the movement's very existence, and calls on the Lebanese government to pursue national sovereignty while rejecting "American dictates."
ما بقى نزع السلاح ذريعة، لأنه الآن طلعوا لنا بذريعة جديدة: «حزب الله يستعيد قدرته، يتسلّح من جديد، لا يسمحون باستعادة القدرة». حسناً، لا، هناك شيء آخر؟ «حزب الله يتموّل، حزب الله يحصل على المال، والمال يعطيه قوة». يعني ساعة ذريعة نزع السلاح، وساعة ذريعة استعادة القدرة، وساعة ذريعة وجود التمويل، وبعد شوي سيقولون:…
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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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Social post English LB 2025-05-02 Tier 2 Taymour Jumblatt (head of the Progressive Socialist Party; MP; son of Walid) — X-post statement on the May 2025 Syrian-Druze (Jaramana / Jabal al-Arab) violence (per L'Orient Today): condemning the "bloodbath," insisting the state must ensure security, and that Syria's rebuilding "can only begin through dialogue, partnership, unity, and equality among the country's components."
Everyone is responsible for upholding the agreements that were made, and the state must ensure security and stability. …can only begin through dialogue, partnership, unity, and equality among the country's components.
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Speech English LB 2025-04-26 Tier 2 Samir Geagea (leader, Lebanese Forces) — statement, ~26 Apr 2025: "We cannot build a real state without the state's monopoly on arms" — his demand that Hezbollah disarm and that the state hold the sole monopoly on weapons. [Second doc — distinct STATE-MONOPOLY-ON-ARMS / Hezbollah-disarmament / sovereignty axis, vs his existing decentralization-and-democracy doc.]
We've been missing a real state for 35 years. We cannot build a real state without the state's monopoly on arms.
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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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Interview English LB 2025-04-03 Tier 2 Walid Joumblatt (Druze leader; Progressive Socialist Party) — The National interview, 3 Apr 2025: urging reconciliation with the new Syria — "Give Ahmad Al Shara a chance… you are giving a chance to the Syrian people" (despite Syria's assassination of his father) — while firmly anti-normalization yet anti-war on Israel: "I'm not favouring and will never favour peace between us and Israel."
Give them a chance. Give Ahmad Al Shara a chance. Because when you give Ahmad Al Shara a chance, you are giving a chance to the Syrian people. I think he's an intelligent person, and he's clever. I'm just saying give Ahmad Al Shara a chance. I'm not favouring and will never favour peace between us and Israel.
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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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Speech English LB 2025-01-09 Tier 2 Joseph Aoun (President of Lebanon from Jan 2025; former army commander) — inaugural address, 9 Jan 2025 (L'Orient Today): making the state's monopoly on arms the centerpiece — "the state's right to hold a monopoly on weapons, and to invest in the army" — alongside a rule-of-law / anti-corruption vision ("no more mafias… no more immunity for criminals and the corrupt"). The reformist / state-sovereignty pole.
…working to ensure the state's right to hold a monopoly on weapons, and to invest in the army to monitor the borders, maintain their security in the south, define the boundaries in the east, north and at sea. If we want to build a nation, we must all be under the roof of law and justice, where there will be no more…
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Speech English LB 2024-12-24 Tier 2 Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi (Maronite Patriarch of Antioch) — Christmas speech, 24 Dec 2024 (per Naharnet): his "positive neutrality" doctrine — one army "instead of two armies," distancing Lebanon from wars and alliances, sovereignty and non-interference, Lebanon as a neutral meeting-place. (Implicitly against Hezbollah's arms and the Iran-led axis.)
Lebanon must protect its sovereignty and defend itself against any occupier, without interfering in the affairs of other states. This neutrality enables Lebanon to play its active role as a place of meeting and dialogue between cultures and religions, and a defender of peace in the region.
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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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Interview English LB 2024-09-11 Tier 1 Sami Gemayel (leader of the Kataeb Party; Lebanese Christian sovereigntist) — exclusive Annahar interview reproduced on the party's official site (~Sep 2024, during the Israel–Hezbollah war): no reform, recovery, stability or presidential election is possible while Hezbollah's weapons dominate Lebanon; Hezbollah must submit to the state and hand its arms to the Lebanese Army, and war-and-peace decisions belong to the Lebanese alone.
"No reforms, economy, political or security stability, or presidential elections can occur in Lebanon under the dominance of Hezbollah's weapons" "We must unite and have the courage to tell Hezbollah that we refuse to live as second-class citizens in our country"
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Interview English LB 2023-07-31 Tier 2 Riad Salameh (Governor of Lebanon's central bank, Banque du Liban, 1993–2023) — statement to CNBC on the day he left office, 31 Jul 2023, rejecting blame for the financial collapse: "It is untrue to hold me directly and solely responsible," arguing exchange policy was set by successive governments, not the central bank.
It is untrue to hold me directly and solely responsible. The exchange policies are determined by the government and [the Banque Du Liban] applies them in every government that was elected since 1993, their target was exchange stability.
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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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Press release English LB 2020-11-06 Tier 1 Gebran Bassil (President, Free Patriotic Movement) — US Treasury (OFAC) Global Magnitsky designation for corruption, 6 Nov 2020 (Treasury press release sm1177): cites his role in steering Lebanese government funds to associates via front companies (2014, as Energy Minister) and patronage appointments (2017). Bassil denies the allegations.
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Gibran Bassil (Bassil), the President of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) political party and Member of Parliament (MP), pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, for his role in corruption in Lebanon. Bassil has held…
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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 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 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 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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Article English LB 2008-05-15 Tier 2 Amal Movement behavioral conduct-axis record: its militia's participation in the May 2008 armed takeover of West Beirut alongside Hezbollah — turning arms inward against fellow Lebanese, conducting searches and arrests of Future Movement militants. Documented by the International Crisis Group, "Hizbollah's Weapons Turn Inward" (15 May 2008; ETH/ISN mirror of the ICG briefing).
The fighting pitted Hizbollah’s and Amal’s Shiite militias against Sunnis. As of 10 May, the various groups involved in the fighting (Hizbollah as well as militias belonging to Amal and the National Social Syrian Party) were still in charge of a number of neighbourhoods and were continuing to conduct searches and…
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Article English LB 2008-05-15 Tier 2 Hezbollah behavioral conduct-axis record: the May 2008 armed takeover of West Beirut — turning its weapons inward against Lebanese rivals after the government challenged its parallel telecom network — a sharp divergence from its declared "national resistance" identity. Documented by the International Crisis Group, "Hizbollah's Weapons Turn Inward" (15 May 2008).
Hizbollah’s takeover of much of West Beirut began as a cost-of-living strike on 7 May 2008. Yet the course of events, their speed and ultimately violent turn exposed the true stakes. Hizbollah clearly prevailed in the military showdown, demonstrating its ability to overrun any opponent. Politically, however, the…
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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…
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Interview English LB Tier 2 Tarek Bitar (lead investigating judge, Beirut port-blast probe) — statements to media/AP, Jan 2023 (per The961): refusing to step down despite the top prosecutor charging him and releasing suspects — "I will continue with the case and I will not leave it unless they remove me completely," undeterred "even if it is going to cost me my life." Judicial independence vs the political class.
I will continue with the case and I will not leave it unless they remove me completely. …even if it is going to cost me my life.