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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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…