MP Ali Fayyad, a member of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc, has called on Lebanese authorities to fundamentally reconsider their negotiating position, warning that current efforts have reached a dead end amid escalating Israeli blackmail.
Speaking at a Hezbollah memorial service for martyr Ali al-Hadi Muhammad Salman , Fayyad told a crowd of scholars, activists, prominent figures, and families of martyrs that reports of a potential American-Iranian agreement to end the war including the Lebanese dimension should serve as a wake-up call.
“The authorities must urgently rethink their stance, which has become trapped in the labyrinth of Israeli blackmail,” Fayyad said. “This approach has worsened Lebanon’s crises instead of resolving them, and has weakened our position against Israeli aggression rather than strengthening it.”
In sharp criticism of the Palestinian Authority, Fayyad urged its leadership to admit it has reached a political dead end. “It is moving down a path with no clear future,” he charged. “By antagonizing Iran, expelling its ambassador, abandoning the resistance, and deeming its actions illegal, the Authority has gained nothing becoming a powerless puppet standing on divided ground, with no leverage, no ability to maneuver, and no capacity to withstand pressure.”
He called on the Palestinian Authority to correct its mistakes, engage constructively with any emerging American-Iranian agreement, and return to prioritizing a comprehensive, unconditional ceasefire including preventing Israeli freedom of movement as a prelude to a swift and complete Israeli withdrawal.
Fayyad stressed that Lebanon’s state must negotiate on its own behalf, adding that no one seeks to usurp that role. However, he demanded the state abandon what he described as a policy of capitulation to Israel, submission to the United States, and marginalization of broad domestic legitimacy.
“The statement issued after the last negotiation session in Washington was a clear and explicit expression of all of that,” Fayyad concluded.
Source: Al-Manar English Website