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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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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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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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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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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.