The distinguished Jaafari Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan launched a sharp attack on the Lebanese authority and the course of the ongoing negotiations, warning that sovereign, national and security concessions, according to his description, would turn into a price offered to the Lebanese under the title of achieving security, considering that the country is going through a very sensitive stage in light of the rapid internal and regional developments.
Qabalan said in a statement: “The country is bleeding, the nature of the region is burning, and Lebanon’s sovereign reality is under the altar of a crazy negotiation framework with sovereign concessions,” considering that the authority is promoting harsh negotiating rounds and blocked doors, before, according to him, results that are different from what is being presented in public emerge.
He added: “In a shocking moment, the behind-the-scenes behind a deal that gives Washington and Tel Aviv something they have not dreamed of for decades is revealed,” continuing: “The authority knows that we know the behind-the-scenes of this game.”
Qablan saw that “the country is without authority and without national and sovereign priorities,” accusing the team that runs the authority of “having nothing to do with national and sovereign interests, and does not care about the South and its people, from near or far.”
He described the current authority as “nothing more than a political vacuum,” adding that “what is dangerous is that the current authority deals with Lebanon as free property,” considering that this constitutes the reason for his disagreement with it, before describing it as “lacking national and sovereign capacity.”
On the other hand, Qabalan stressed that his reading of the future of Lebanon and the region “is not bleak at all,” and said: “We are from the roots of this country and the national force that restored it the day the entire region abandoned it.”
He stopped at regional developments, especially in the Strait of Hormuz, considering that “what is happening now, especially in the Strait of Hormuz, establishes new rules for the region,” and that Lebanon, according to his reading, “with the new regional reality, will gain its regional weight and overcome the crisis of the political vacuum that is engulfing the country.”
Qabalan also considered that “the Greater Israel Project has ended as an executive capacity,” attributing this to what he described as “the resistance’s valor, heroism, and strategic sacrifices.”
He called for protecting Lebanon from what he described as “the crisis of the political mind and its surrendering team,” adding: “We are now facing an authority that does not rule and does not want to rule except to the extent of its sovereign concessions.”
Qabalan concluded his statement by saying: “For the sake of history, I say: The most dangerous authority in the world is the authority that convinces its people that sovereign, national, and security concessions are the price of safety.”
Qabalan’s position comes at a time when the framework agreement and the path to its implementation are at the forefront of the internal debate, after the Lebanese-American-Israeli negotiations that led to the agreement in Washington, and the subsequent transition of communications to discussing the necessary procedures and arrangements for its implementation.
In the latest stop on this path, the President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, received the head of the military coordination group for Lebanon, General Joseph Clearfield, in the presence of the US Ambassador to Lebanon, Michel Issa, where the procedures for implementing the framework agreement were discussed, in light of the talks that Clearfield conducted in Israel last week.
This comes in parallel with the continuing field developments in the south, where border areas and southern towns are still witnessing Israeli bombing and bombing operations, while communications are focused on implementing the agreed-upon arrangements and addressing files related to the security and field situation.
