The media department of the Lebanese Forces Party issued the following statement: Hezbollah continues to launch positions that have no relation to reality, texts, or truth, which forces us to put dots on these misleading positions aimed at trying to justify the status of its illegal weapons, and to extend the sick Lebanese reality. First, this party claims that the President of the Republic does not have the right to bypass, in any negotiations, “a fundamental pillar of the state,” which is the Speaker of the House of Representatives. With all due respect to President Nabih Berri, the Lebanese Constitution is clear regarding the separation of powers and the definition of powers. The constitutional articles explicitly stipulate that the President of the Republic is the one who negotiates the conclusion of international treaties and agreements in agreement with the Prime Minister, and therefore the President of the State exercises his full constitutional powers. However, Hezbollah was not accustomed to respecting the institutions’ exercise of their powers, after it practically turned against the constitution and the logic of the state in Lebanon. Secondly, in a repeated position, one of the party’s representatives called for “an effective return to the provisions of the Taif Agreement,” claiming that the agreement stipulates “the use of all means to liberate the land,” and that “resistance” is one of the most important of these means. This is not true at all, because the Taif Agreement does not include any mention of the phrase “resistance,” neither remotely nor closely. Liberating the land, according to the constitution, is exclusively the task of the Lebanese state, and the state alone decides the approved means, whether diplomatic, military, or otherwise. No organization has the right to claim that the resistance is its specialty, to monopolize the decision to make war and peace, and to impose itself by force of a fait accompli on the Lebanese, as Hezbollah did, taking advantage of the reality of the Assadist occupation of Lebanon starting in 1991. Third, one of the party’s representatives also said that “neither direct nor indirect negotiation can bring Lebanon to a result, and the only result is resistance.” In fact, if it were not for Hezbollah, Israel would not have entered Lebanon again. It is the party that brought Lebanon into the war, and it is the one that caused the current disastrous situation, and therefore the negotiation taking place today aims to remove Israel from Lebanese territory as a result of the war caused by the party itself. Fourth, the party talks about “national unity” and accuses the President of violating this unity, while the truth is that what contradicts national unity, the constitution, and the laws is the presence of weapons outside the authority of the state. What the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister are doing constitutes an actual embodiment of national unity, because they implement the Constitution and confirm the exclusivity of sovereign decision-making in the hands of the Lebanese state. As for Hezbollah, which clings to its illegal weapons and places itself above the state and its institutions, it is the one that strikes at national unity and undermines the foundations of the state and the law. Fifth, someone said that “resistance will continue until complete liberation.” The truth is that the required liberation is to liberate Lebanon from the faction that annexed it to Iran and prevent it from being a normal state. The time has come to get out of the death spiral itself, and the same boring cylinder whose truth has been revealed. Yesterday, the speech was that “the resistance is the only one capable of confronting Israel and preventing it from entering Lebanon,” and when Israel entered Lebanon because of the war declared by the party itself, the speech became that “the resistance is the only one capable of expelling it.” It is the height of farce. Whoever caused the war, the introduction of Israel into Lebanon, the paralysis of the Lebanese state for forty years, and the displacement and impoverishment of the Lebanese must at least remain silent now and leave wide room for the legitimate Lebanese authority, represented by the President of the Republic and the government, to try to save what can be saved.