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Lebanese political writer Hanna Saleh said in an audio interview with Independent Arabia that after April 16, 2026 (the date of the preparatory meeting held between the Lebanese ambassador to the United States and her Israeli counterpart at the US State Department in Washington), it seems clear that everything that symbolized the coup of February 6, 1984, which toppled the peace agreement with Israel in 1983, has become a thing of the past.

What is happening inside Lebanon cannot be reduced to a mere temporary political disagreement amid an Israeli war; rather, it is a direct reflection of a deeper conflict over the identity of sovereign decision-making.

Since President Joseph Aoun declared the move toward negotiations with Israel, and after the direct meeting between Lebanon and Israel in Washington, parallel to the Lebanese state's affirmation, especially by Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, of not backing down on the issue of exclusive weapons possession, the pace of political and media attacks from Hezbollah leaders has escalated, threatening to bring down the government and significantly escalate against Aoun and Salam.

The situation reached the point where former Hezbollah MP Nawaf al-Mousawi said in a media interview that 'the President of the Republic, when he unilaterally takes steps of this kind (negotiation with Israel), will not be more important than Anwar Sadat,' referring to the assassination of former Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat, in objection to his policies, especially Egypt's signing of a peace agreement with Israel in 1978 known as the Camp David Accords. These threats came amid popular protests by Hezbollah supporters in front of the Government Serail in Beirut rejecting state decisions.

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Lebanese political writer Hanna Saleh said in an audio interview with Independent Arabia that after April 16, 2026 (the date of the preparatory meeting held between the Lebanese ambassador to the United States and her Israeli counterpart at the US State Department in Washington), it seems clear that everything that symbolized the coup of February 6, 1984, which toppled the peace agreement with Israel in 1983, has become a thing of the past.

He continued: 'The calls were clear for protests aimed at uprooting the Serail and targeting Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, with a focus on the latter given what he represents. Notably, Hezbollah failed in its movement to attract many who used to flatter, support, and benefit from it, so it resorted to bringing up political figures from the archives.' He considered that it is not a simple matter for Nawaf al-Mousawi to threaten the President of the Republic with the fate of Anwar Sadat, and not trivial for MP Ali Fadlallah to insult the President of the Republic with offensive descriptions, and it is ironic that the Secretary-General of the party, Naim Qassem, calls on the authority to benefit from the field while he lives in an isolated trench, not seeing the sun nor aware of what is happening in the country.

He concluded, considering that over the past years, the language of treason, the 'blood test' approach, the slogan 'feel your necks,' and the logic of 'the most honorable people' prevailed, as if the rest of the Lebanese are not honorable. This approach was nothing but an arrogance that culminated recently with the big and influential positions taken by the President of the Republic. He refused to have the youth of Lebanon be sacrifices in the service of foreign powers, and rejected the periodic wars that killed Lebanese for free, in a clear reference to the Iranian decision that drove Lebanon into destructive wars, resulting in the deaths of about 15,000 Lebanese, the destruction of hundreds of thousands of homes, and the displacement of nearly two million people, with what that may entail for the demographic structure.

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