The head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, issued the following statement: “The framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, whose completion was supervised by President Joseph Aoun in understanding and consultation with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, is the most important political step taken by the Lebanese state in half a century, to extricate Lebanon and the Lebanese from the tragic impasse and its repercussions due to successive “resistances” on the ground in the south. This framework agreement is not limited to removing the Israelis from Lebanon, so that the people of the south can return to their regions and villages. Rather, when implemented, it will permanently close the bleeding side in our south, which has bloodied all the Lebanese, led by the people of the south, and has made us destabilized, and has, to varying degrees, disrupted national and political work in the country, and led to economic and financial collapses from which no home in Lebanon has been spared. This bleeding flank, contrary to the claims of the “resistance” of all kinds and backgrounds, has not contributed a single hair to the Palestinian cause, while it has repeatedly destroyed Lebanon. On the other hand, the framework agreement, when implemented, will not only remove the Israelis from our land and close the bleeding side in the south, but it will also rid us of a major national problem that we have lived with in the past fifty years, which is the presence of military organizations outside the state, at the forefront of which is Hezbollah, which acts with the decision of war and peace according to its whims and in accordance with external interests, and without taking into account the interests of Lebanon and the Lebanese, which has led to the weakness of the Lebanese state and its failure to take it seriously. The grandfather of all Lebanon’s friends, east and west. By extension, this framework agreement will remove the unlimited and illegitimate Iranian influence from Lebanese decision-making circles, which was pushing Lebanese positions and choices in directions that serve the interests of Iran and not the interests of Lebanon and the Lebanese, and will restore relations between Lebanon and Iran to what they were half a century ago: normal diplomatic relations between two countries for the benefit of their peoples. As for those who woke up today and are screaming: “This is sedition,” let them remember that the sedition occurred when the Taif Agreement was applied in the security and military field to people and not to others, under flimsy pretexts that did not fool anyone, and the greatest evidence is what our situation has become at the present time. And those who also woke up today to the armistice agreement, I wish they had taken action when the tampering with the armistice agreement began in 1964, instead of crying now over its ruins. I want to remind everyone, especially those who claim that this agreement is not valid, is not legitimate, and did not take into account the opinion of a segment of the Lebanese, that the legitimate authority in Lebanon today consists, as in most countries of the world, of the President of the Republic, the government, and the Parliament. The President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, who supervised the completion of this agreement, was legitimately and legally elected by 99 deputies out of 128, and this government received confidence twice, amounting to two-thirds of the votes of the Council that was elected by the Lebanese people. In the end, this is the biggest opportunity that Lebanon has had to get out of the tragic conditions it has lived through in the last fifty years. We must all seize it and stand behind our legitimate authorities to get out of what we are in as quickly as possible, instead of wasting time with proposals and heroics that have been consumed and consumed... until all the Lebanese are drunk.