Attorney John Hajjar, Director of the International Lebanese Committee for UNSCR 1559, said that all Lebanese feel that the “so-called Resistance” is the core of the problem in Lebanon and the cause of the country’s successive miseries.

In a press release issue by the IL Committee for UNSCR 1559 on Monday, Hajjar responded to the statement of Hezbollah Official Nabil Kaouk from Southern Lebanon that suggested 1559 has been overcome by events and will not be discussed in the national dialogue.

Hajjar said that when the United Nation Security Council issued resolution 1701, it understood the need to treat the Lebanese wounds but did not at the time appreciate the severity of the rifts within Lebanon. He added that subsequent events have proven the danger of  “armed gangs” that  destabilize Lebanon and nearly incite renewed civil war.   

Hajjar added that the country is greater than Hezbollah’s weapons,  Lebanon refuses to be a tool in the hands of Iran and Syria. “The suicide culture they are trying to spread will destroy them and Lebanon will be saved from all violent social diseases,” the statement read.

The IL committee warned that Syria will not reoccupy Lebanon, adding that Hezbollah “is digging its own grave through it refusal to disarm.”