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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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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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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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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 2025-01-09 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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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 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 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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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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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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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.