Hariri’s Last Failing Paper: Saraya (Brigades) vs. Resistance Arms Legitimacy

Local Editor

Lebanese well-informed sources reported that the last paper outgoing PM Saad Hariri delivered to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad Bin Jassem and Turkey's PM Ahmet Davut Oglo in Aleppo, Syria included "clauses that were not mentioned in the document that Head of National Struggle Front MP Walid Jumblatt put out in Beirut during his press conference.

Jumblatt has put out a document which he said that Hariri had agreed on, including clauses of which the most significant was the legitimacy of the Resistance arms and protecting it. This, according to sources, was a Hariri initiative and not related to demands from Hizbullah to protect the resistance arms as it usually did. But Hariri went farther than any of the Syrian, Qatari, or Turkish leaders expected.

In an interview with As-Safir newspaper, the sources explained that "this development led the Syrian authority to try convincing Hizbullah to accept Hariri's offer especially that he is compromising when it comes to the clauses in the document Jumblatt put out later. But Hizbullah's answer was decisive, declaring that Hariri was given a chance to take a historic stance before the general prosecutor of the STL Daniel Bellemare delivered the indictment to Pre-Trial judge Daniel Francin.

Hizbullah's answer was "We would have encountered this moral obligation by keeping him a ruler for the next twenty or more years, and he would have enjoyed what no former PM enjoyed before. But since he did not take the appropriate stance in the appropriate time, and since Bellemare delivered the indictment to Francin, we are free from any previous obligation and we will not accept him as our Prime Minister even if he did the impossible and not only admitted the legitimacy of the resistance arms."

Also, sources reported that Hizbullah leadership informed Damascus, Doha, and Ankara that it does not fear the politicized indictment and that it realizes very well the aims of the international campaign against the resistance arms. Therefore, Hizbullah will act accordingly with Lebanon's National interest rather than any other interest.

It also said "The same document, included the three clauses that were in Jumblatt's document, which was supposedly approved by Hariri says:

I, Prime Minister Saaad Hariri vow to undertake the following in return:

-Cancel the cooperation protocol with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
-Block the financing of the STL
-Withdraw the Lebanese judges from the court.