Soueid sees struggle over “nature” of state
Hezbollah”s interest in the Lebanese government after the May clashes in Beirut is in need of Lebanese rehabilitation, according to March 14 General Secretariat Coordinater Fares Soueid.
Soueid, a former MP, added that Christians’ interest in a Lebanese government stemmed from the fact that they had “no interests but the state.”
“Today we are living the third attempt at coexistence between the Lebanese state and the so-called Wilayat al-Faqih [Guardianship of the Jurist],” Soueid said in an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) on Saturday.
Soueid called on Hezbollah to “return to the Lebanese project” as their principles no longer held. “The principles of the Resistance fell because it can no longer shooting at Israel and because past experience has shown that the limits of force coincide with the limits of confession,” he said.
The former MP underlined that the battle in Lebanon was not over the management of the state, but the very nature of the state.
Soueid feared that the cost of the Syrian regime’s decision to open up to the world was the International Tribunal. “This [would] mean the loss of the United Nations’ credibility, and we would then have to seek a new league of nations.”
The March 14 official added that he could understand criticism of US policies, but could not understand turning to Iran as part of that criticism.