Today’s Opinion:
24-3-2025
No priority surpasses the state’s monopoly on weapons, and no discussion of any reform clause can take place before implementing the sovereignty clause, which has been obstructed for 35 years. The constitution is clear in its priorities: the gateway to reform is sovereignty, and there can be no reform before sovereignty is achieved.
It was assumed that the faction that destroyed and devastated Lebanon had learned from its three-decade-long experience of death and that, after the latest war, which annihilated both people and infrastructure, it would have taken heed and committed to the authority of the state. However, it has become evident that “what is crooked remains crooked,” and there is no hope in calling upon the deaf. Instead of apologizing to the Lebanese for delaying the establishment of a real state since 1991 and announcing the end of its armed project, it persists in its project of death, fueling division within Lebanon’s societal and political body.
The advocates of this project of death believe that by calling for changes to the electoral law and the abolition of sectarianism, they can evade the termination of their armed project, which has ravaged Lebanon. They think they can stir up political dust to divert attention from their weapons of death. However, they fail to realize that this time, their problem is no longer only with the Lebanese people who seek a project of life but also with the international community, which has decided to put an end to the project of death across the region, starting with its mastermind, Iran, and extending to all its armed factions.
These proponents also assume that, by losing their destructive Iranian-backed military project, they can compensate by eroding Lebanon’s unique identity, undermining its pluralism through numerical democracy, aiming to regain control of the country through demographic dominance rather than weapons.
These proposals are even more dangerous than their Iranian-backed military project. Their danger lies in the eliminationist mindset that governs their thinking, their refusal to grasp Lebanon’s societal nature, and their insistence on dominance and exclusion. What they failed to achieve through arms, they now seek to achieve through numbers, as if they have learned nothing from half a century of failed attempts that only led to death and destruction.
It is truly regrettable that some have not learned from their past attempts to eliminate others in Lebanon—attempts that led only to death, destruction, and ruin. Yet, they persist in the same exclusionary logic. Instead of apologizing for what they have inflicted upon Lebanon and its people, they continue their efforts to keep Lebanon a battlefield. What they could not achieve through weapons, they now seek to impose through demographic means.
To this faction, we say: Your new attempt will fail. Your destructive and displacement-driven project is over for good. You will not be able to compensate through demographic dominance after your military project’s defeat. The weapons will be removed, the projects of death will vanish, and pluralism will be entrenched. Your problem is no longer with a single group, it is with the overwhelming majority of Lebanese people who want Lebanon to be a project of life, far from you and your projects of death.
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