Lebanon has reached a critical point
Environment Minister Tony Karam said that Lebanon was on the verge of “falling off the edge” as some parties had no interest in a Lebanese rapprochement, and that local and regional factors weakened the political situation. “Some do not realize yet that the state is back and there is no other choice,” he said.
In an interview with Kuwaiti newspaper al-Dar al- Kuwaitia on Saturday, Karam said that the situation of the Lebanese Forces today was different than that in 2005. “The Lebanese Forces has kept its principles and slogans. Lebanese Forces unlike others, does not claim, that it represents (70) seventy percent of the Christians or that we are the principle decision makers, that it represents owns or manipulates the Christian community,” he said.
Karam said that there were efforts to achieve an intra-Christian reconciliation, “but things are deeper.” He said that the Lebanese Forces did not seek to attain the presidency unlike other politicians, a reference to Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun. “Should we forever pay the cost of his failure to reach Baabda?” Karam asked.