Is the arms restricting the drawing of the Christian role in Lebanon?

Michel Nasr wrote in “Al -Diyar”: The issue of “restricting weapons is in the hands of the state” is highlighted as a central title that re -mixes internal papers and reveals deep cracks in the political and sectarian structure of the Lebanese regime. But behind this title is “hiding” more sophisticated questions, most notably: Is Lebanon’s sectarian and political balances re -drawing from the “weapon” portal? Do Christians again pay the price of reshaping power on the ruins of the Taif Agreement?

Today, strategic questions are raised not only to the exclusive fate of weapons, but also to the reality of sectarian and political balances in the country. In the heart of this equation, a very sensitive question arises: Will the arms restriction course re -draw the Christian role in Lebanon? Will Christians be among the winners, or will they pay the price if the internal deterrence equations are dismantled without guarantees that preserve the political and constitutional balance?
A non -civil Christian source, who sees, in the exhibition of its approach to the current situation, that the Taif Agreement constituted an equation based on a “balance of weakness” between the sects as one of the most prominent foundations of stability, the weapon of Hezbollah came out as a security -constitutional exception, under the title International and regional.
The source continues, today, with the army’s presentation of its plan to restrict arms in the hands of the state, which raises serious concerns in the Christian street, which is linked to the re -drawing the balance of political and sectarian forces, in the absence of a comprehensive national plan that ensures that the issue of disarmament does not turn into an introduction to a wider imbalance, because the Christian presence in the state is based, to some extent, to accurate internal balances, the “church” fears its collapse, if the square is empty From weapons without reformulating a new national contract.
From here, the words of the source, there are two directions inside the street and the Christian elites in dealing with this development:
“The direction of 14 Azari”, believes that restricting weapons to the state is the natural way to build a strong state that protects all its components, including Christians, and relies on international support to protect this path and ensure balances.
“A realistic direction”, considers that limiting weapons without parallel political and constitutional reforms may open the door to marginalizing the Christian role within state institutions, and opens the appetite of internal and external powers to restructure the regime on numerical foundations that do not guarantee the actual partnership.
Accordingly, the source indicates that if the state fails to provide serious guarantees to all parties after disarmament, voices demanding federalism or expanded decentralization may rise again, not as a matter of separation, but rather to protect the role of sects and safeguard the remaining privacy and identity in light of a feeling of fear of political and security exposure.