⋯ Gebran Bassil: “We stood by Mar Mikhael, but where is the translation of this understanding? In democratic agreement, in state building?”

“I tell Sayyed Hassan [Nasrallah], who has a special place in my heart and mind, that we need to develop the understanding further, and we have tried many times to do so. (...) Our goal is state building, theirs is resistance and defense, and we said we can have both, if the resistance stays under and with the state. We can't lose the state and keep the resistance, but we can win both. Lebanon cannot afford to be stateless.”

“And we are put in situations we can't explain, only for one person: [Nabih] Berri. It is not okay for us to be put always between 2 choices, state or strife, stability or rooting out corruption. We made an understanding with Hezbullah, not with Amal. When we see them getting into our relationship and understanding, it is our right to start doubting that the understanding should stay as it is. We ask for a new and a better understanding that could help us and them.”

⋯ Gebran Bassil: “We know that stopping the understanding with Hezbullah would hurt our legitimacy and in our elections. But If we have to choose between legitimacy and polls, we choose legitimacy. (...) Once again, we stand with Mar Mikhael and not with the Tayyouneh ambush [i.e. Samir Geagea].”

“We do not accept being belittled, dragged, and we rather be alone than humiliated. We feel an existential threat, and we should all work together and to defend Lebanon. Lebanon cannot be divided, no matter how, not with federalism, and this is opposite with the national identity of Lebanon.”

Note: Gebran Bassil is the head of the biggest Christian party, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM).

On this night at dawn two years ago, the USA murdered at Israeli command the soft-hearted head of IRGC's Quds Force Qassem Soleimani and the head of the Iraqi PMF Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis along with their 8 companions in Baghdad.

The Lebanese Forces party's top two Shia candidates for the upcoming 2022 election on its lists in Beqaa against Hezbullah are:

1- Mohammed Al-Hajj Hassan, famous for his nudes.

2- Abbas Al-Jawhari, known for smuggling drugs in his car.

The dollar exchange rate rose back to 28,900 LBP/USD.

Many people in Akkar, North Lebanon are experiencing bad internet connection and very weak cell reception.

Syrian Observer: Since September 2021, the Russian airforce bombed 8 poultry farms in Idlib killing 6 and injuring at least 14 civilians, majority being women and children.

Current rate is 29,050 LBP/USD

🚨 The Israeli occupation fired a number of flares over the Lebanese-Palestinian border, opposite the town of Blida.

An Indian exchanger just scammed me out of 10,000 LBP LOL.

Exchanged my 10 USD at 28,000 LBP/USD. twitter.com/LebUpdate/sta…

Hebrew channel 11 revealed that 120 IDF reservists refused to participate in a sudden battalion training at the end of an operational activity in Gush Etzion.

The 120 have been expelled from service.