Arabic → English transcript

I want to tell you some news

And I’m going to tell you this live on air

Ninety percent of the people

in Lebanon, in their hearts

were saying, “God willing, there won’t be a cease…”

“fire”

You, the Hezbollah environment, do you accept

that all Lebanese are quoted as saying this about you?

Ninety percent of the people

in Lebanon, either they’d throw them out

that they were praying, insisting

that there would not be a cease-fire, so they could get rid of

Hezbollah’s militia

If this militia falls from the eyes

of the Lebanese, who are partners in the homeland

will it win

in the direction of the West

and toward

the Americans?

If it falls in the eyes of all the communities—

the Christian, the Sunni, the Druze,

and the free Shia—

will it win anywhere else?

Believe me, I am not saying this to you here

There were people holding rosaries, not wanting a cease-fire

and I swear to you on what I am telling you

Forget about the rest, why do you care about them

because today, in a way, we consider

that our relief has come

With what you said, that Trump

now has shared interests

between our interest and President Trump’s interest

if that is the case, but

I see it differently from how you, from the ninety percent, do

Not even ten percent.

Honestly, I cheered for the ninety, to be honest.

We were… I was praying.

No, I am a man who wants to be done

with something called Hezbollah terrorism.

You tell me it will be resolved with diplomacy,

without

a single bird getting hurt, I tell you I will be…

You tell me they want to be beaten,

beaten to death the same way.

I do not want to put the burden on you, that today you prayed

for the war to continue and therefore for the spilling of

Lebanese blood, they are partners.

Not at all.

Not at all.

I carry them in my heart, and they know that I

am an honest man, I am the civilian,

I carry the child in my heart,

the old woman and the young man, I carry them

in my heart and I help them with whatever they need.

But today there are soldiers

holding Lebanon hostage

as a militia.

Today if we go and say the army

has to disarm them, you tell me, we will start a civil war.

And if we say, let us go and negotiate

diplomatically, they say to you, you have no

right, we are the victors.

And if we go and say to them, my brother, we will live together,

but under the banner of the Lebanese army

and the Lebanese state, they say to you, there is

Iran, the Guardianship of the Jurist gave us

orders, and if we go…

If you’re closing off all

the exits for me

I want to come and tell you

I, my brother, I, as a person

the problem between us is that

everyone talks about things

behind closed doors

they went out and backed the prime minister and the president

and what do we want with all this news

let it go

in my opinion

they went to the American

embassy

and the Lebanese embassy

and Israel’s embassy in Washington

in my opinion, it should move to another stage

at the level of the Foreign Ministry

a heroic foreign minister should emerge from us

his name is Youssef Rjeh

to negotiate in the name of Lebanon

then it should move to the presidency

you are saying that about ninety percent today

of the people were praying the war would not end

I was struck by the position

of the MP

that the shooting should not stop

meaning, did we not say it is in our interest

that Hezbollah would stay

then come back and tell me “victorious,” as you saw yesterday

those celebrations

and we start again

the one who had one foot inside

and one foot outside would run away again

because today the Lebanese

we Lebanese — forgive the expression

we also lie a bit

today you go to a state employee

once he sees you, as soon as he sees you

And if you are winning, he starts kissing you

If you are…

In the middle of a firefight, he tells you, “I have nothing to do with this”

This here is the color white

And the slogan and the chant are wrong

When a member of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc asks you

From MP Hassan Fadlallah, he tells you

Who do you think today is outside the law

The one who defends his land, even to martyrdom

Or an authority that abandoned its duty

And decided to withdraw the army from the South

Do not leave my village

To the occupation

Professor Walid

Today you are, as

A person of the resistance in the South

You came to give your opinion

As a young man, your partner in the nation

Or as the Lebanese state, or a nationalist, or an army

You do not get to take the resistance

Or as the Maronite Church

You took the position, “I want to resist Israel”

And we discussed it at the table

And we saw what is right and what is wrong

So that we bring you back and you would not support us

You went and made your decision alone

They killed Hassan Nasrallah, they did not dare

Throw a stone at Israel

If I, as a Christian

Went down to Dahieh and threw a stone at the building

Where Hassan Nasrallah is not even living

They would have destroyed the building

They killed Khomeini, they ran

And told them, “We want to defend…”

About Iran and about Khomeini

Today we are admitting

one thing, that we are reading

a scene in front of us where there is

a gang that has taken over Lebanon

dancing over Lebanon and over Lebanon’s government

because of all those who came

to the presidency of the republic after the Taif

they came obedient to Bashar

al-Assad and to Hassan Nasrallah

Sayyed Ibrahim

so that it reaches Joseph Aoun and we put a fake

because President Aoun, Joseph,

is the only president

who in my opinion today embodies the head of

the Maronite republic before the Taif