“Lebanon Debate”
A video circulated on social media of former MP Fares Saeed addressing sensitive political topics, reminding us of the situation of Christians 100 years ago, when the Christian presence was active, such as Bechara El-Khoury and Emile Edde, the Société Générale Bank, the Jesuit University, the Aintoura School, and the Hotel Dieu.
He asks who is sitting today? There are no more Hawaik, no significant parties, and not even a Christian presence that can sit with those who are engineering the region again.
In the video, he stresses that we, as Christians, must enter into this Arabism in a way that we can be useful to it, which prompted one of the attendees to ask: How is that? So Saeed answered, “First, stop talking and say that Christians cannot live with Islam,” recalling what has been talked about on screens for two years: “We tried for 100 years living with Islam…it won’t revive,” commenting: How is that, O sons of Awadim? Do you want to? You live with them, work with them, and get money from them? And you go to the Gulf, and whoa..”
He believes that “on the contrary, as long as there is Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad al-Deif, Benjamin Netanyahu, Qassem Soleimani and Hassan Nasrallah, Christians must be heroes in defending the civil state and the national state in the region. However, the conversations all day long are Samir Geagea and Gebran Bassil, and these conversations “It’s no longer useful.”
He stresses that, “In light of the table being set up in the region to share oil, gas, water, weapons, influence, and politics, Christians must do everything in their power to preserve their interests and their position on them.”
He compares the concepts of the countries surrounding Lebanon and what their leaders say, from Yahya Sinwar to Benjamin Netanyahu to the Iranians, and what the Lebanese want, which in his opinion must be clear and say that he is with women’s rights, with the national state, with human rights, and with freedom and the constitution.
Saeed confirms this speech in an interview with “Lebanon Debate”: “It is a leaked conversation and it is a conversation with someone who was participating in lunch at his home, and he downplays its importance, especially since it is just two people sitting together expressing the anxiety they feel about what is happening and will happen.” He considers that “the anxiety in the Christian community today is about fate and the future, no less than it was during the war.”
This speech was directed to the participants and was not intended for publication, but he does not hide his blame of the Christian parties, forces, the church, universities, and Christian civil society, stressing that all sectors are collapsing today.
Saeed does not hide that, “Today the region is being reconstructed again with new engineers, and the talk was about how to return to the negotiating table so that we, as Christians, can be part of the future of this region.”
In conclusion, he believes that “the problem is not a problem of a regime, but rather a problem of weapons that obstruct the implementation of the constitution in Lebanon.”
A sweet, interesting and qualitative video by Fares Saeed🔥🔥
Don’t miss watching! 👇😂— ＬＡＲＡ (@lara_klayte) January 8, 2024
2024-01-09 14:41:27
#leaked #video #raises #controversy.. #justified
