Ahdab questions Aoun’s positions
MP Misbah Ahdab said that Change and Reform leader MP Michel Aoun’s persistence in his “aggressive campaign” against North Lebanon citizens, the prime minister, and Lebanon’s allies is “strange.”
Ahdab said that if Aoun views himself as the representative of Christian interests in the Middles East, he should consider how engaging Christians in the factional politics of both Lebanon and the region serves their interests. Ahdab asked whether Aoun’s attack on Saudi Arabia’s attempts to build consensus aimed at cancelling the Taif Accord and placing Lebanon under Iranian control.
“This is not the spirit of reconciliation as we understand it. Reconciliation does not occur through placing Lebanon in Iran orbit, but through reviving Lebanon’s role to bring rapprochement among its friends. We in the North accepted the spirit of reconciliation on the basis of the state’s initiative and its legitimate security forces,” Ahdab said while welcoming delegations at his residence in Tripoli.
Ahdab asked Aoun about the meaning of the petro-dollar. “Is it a petro-dollar of missiles or a petro dollar of school aid for all sects in Lebanon without exceptions? Is it a petro-dollar of the reconstruction of South Lebanon? Should petro-dollars support the central bank or should they support resistance groups that are spread in the security zones in Tripoli and in Akkar?” he asked.
Ahdab also noted that Aoun’s positions are unsurprising given his role in the Cancellation War, which had major material, political, and moral repercussions for the Lebanese and the Christians in particular. He said Aoun was trying to escape these repercussions through issuing accusations and trying to shift responsibility to Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir. Ahdab said that Sfeir is not only a religious authority bit a national one.